Rogo's Academic Origins and Banking AI Growth Path

John Willet ( @johnwillettrogo) Co-Founder of Rogo ( @RogoAI) just raised a $75M Series-C at $750M valuation from Sequoia ( @sequoia). We dug through his Princeton University records from six years ago and found one of his academic papers he was working on: The Athena Project, the genesis for Rogo. "Gabe ( @GabeStengel) and I were major nerds...we did some early NLP research which is really is like total cave art compared to what everyones doing today". "But yeah that totally was the genesis for the company, we did that, we worked on Wall Street for a couple years...we really felt some of the use cases coming alive for us". Open AI ( @OpenAI) recently featured them as a case study, noting Rogo grew it's ARR 27x over a single year leverging fine-tuned models for banking.