Scaling Ambition By Entrepreneur First

Alex Appelbe is the Co-Founder of Metis Labs a company providing general intelligence for industrial systems by using deep reinforcement learning to build the factory brain. Alex and his co-founder Bashir were on EF8 and they started Metis Labs by saving energy in processing factories - helping one of the largest beverage manufacturers in the world to reduce energy consumption in each of their locations. Alex is a mechanical engineer with a Master’s in Industrial Systems from Cambridge University and built 10 years of experience in the manufacturing sector before joining EF. In this conversation we dive into Alex’s personal story, everything he’s learned about finding product market fit, hiring and funding in the process of building Metis Labs and what he’s learned about himself along the way.