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Alon Talmor

Questioner · DISC type c
Founder & CEO at Ask-AI
📍 Tel Aviv District, Israel, Canada

Alon Talmor is the Founder and CEO of Ask-AI, a generative AI platform for enterprises. A serial entrepreneur, he previously founded BlueTail, which was acquired by Salesforce where he then served as Chief Data Scientist. He holds a PhD in AI/NLP from Tel Aviv University and has contributed to award-winning academic papers.

After selling his first company, Alon traveled the world for a year before pursuing his PhD to find the next major technological shift. Beyond his professional sphere, he has a passion for extreme sports and playing the piano, balancing his deep technical expertise with adventurous and creative pursuits.

Unique fact: Before his first startup, Alon studied brain science and began a PhD he didnt complete, a goal he later fulfilled in the field of AI after his successful exit from Salesforce.

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Experience
14 Years
Current Role
Founder & CEO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Tel Aviv District, Israel, Canada
Personality Overview

How Alon shows up

Not Easily Convinced
Systematic
Cautious & Analytical

They prefer to fully evaluate every situation. They generally do not appreciate an overfriendly approach and prefer to stay to-the-point. While they don't hesitate to ask questions, they are generally risk-averse and tend to be late adopters.

Priorities

Topics Alon cares about

Enterprise AI Adoption
Believes AI will consolidate the SaaS industry and focuses on solving the challenge of fragmented enterprise data across systems like Salesforce, Slack, and Zendesk.
AI/NLP Research
His PhD focused on Natural Language Processing, and he co-authored the influential "CommonsenseQA" paper, which won a Best Paper award at NAACL.
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Career

Work history

1-2022
Founder & CEO
Ask-AI
2-2019 - 5-2021
Parttime Researcher
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2)
3-2017 - 12-2020
PhD in Question Answering, NLP, AI
Tel Aviv University
7-2012 - 9-2015
Chief Data Scientist, Data.com
salesforce.com
7-2009 - 7-2012
Co-Founder, CEO (Acquired by Salesforce.com)
BlueTail
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Media appearances

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Education
2017 - 2020
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Tel Aviv University
B.A.
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

c

Calculativeness (C)

Calculativeness (C) reflects the degree to which a person is likely to be cautious, systematic and analytical. Those scoring high tend to emphasise quality and accuracy.

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