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Meet The Four MIT Students Working To Disrupt The Expert Network Industry
If you’re a C-suite executive or institutional investor, chances are you’ve faced a problem that you personally couldn’t solve on your own. Your immediate circle of co-workers and colleagues in your industry aren’t able to find an answer either. Going through your Rolodex, you’re unable to find someone to solve your problem.
This is where expert networks come into play. These are groups of individuals who are subject matter experts in their respective fields. Hedge funds, Fortune 500 companies, mutual funds, and other entities regularly call upon these professionals to divulge help them solve problems they can’t figure out on their own. Finding the right expert for a particular problem is not easy. Companies such as the Gerson Lehrman Group function as matchmakers for their clients and experts. The expert network industry is a lucrative opportunity, generating over $1 billion in revenue throughout 2017.
Devin Basinger, Yishi Zuo, Derek Hans, and Nikhil Punwaney see a chance to disrupt the expert network industry as a whole through their startup, DeepBench. DeepBench seeks to free the “world’s knowledge by matching expert advisors with those who need their insights.”
“Our goal with DeepBench is to build a technology-driven, human-assisted platform for navigating expert…
