Pathmind
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Pathmind was a San Francisco AI startup founded in 2016 by Chris Nicholson, previously CEO of deep-learning company Skymind. It applied deep reinforcement learning and simulation to industrial operations and supply chains: industrial engineers built simulations of physical systems (manufacturing, mining, energy), and Pathmind's platform automatically selected and tuned reinforcement learning algorithms to find more efficient operating strategies, such as cutting a metals processor's power costs by a reported 10%.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
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- Company founded
Chris Nicholson founds Pathmind in San Francisco to apply deep reinforcement learning to supply chain and industrial operations.
- Product traction
Pathmind ships its simulation-plus-reinforcement-learning platform for industrial customers, citing optimization wins in manufacturing and mining operations.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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