Words with AI: Language and the future of work, with Textio CEO Kieran Snyder

What’s the impact of the words and phrases we use?

Augmented composing platform Textio takes advantage of device mastering and organic language processing to acquire the guesswork out of small business interaction, featuring predictive analytics built to assistance companies recruit a varied workforce and create an inclusive culture. 

The 120-person Seattle-based mostly tech firm, led by CEO Kieran Snyder, has been likely through a transformation of its personal throughout the earlier two a long time, increasing its product or service lineup though taking its very own workforce entirely remote, and recruiting a lot more people outside the Seattle space.

In the system, the enterprise developed its possess in-residence on line device for participatory time-boxed conversations, for staff-making and collaboration amongst its workers. Dubbed “Umeo,” it’s not a products … at the very least not nonetheless. 

Snyder, who was named the CEO of the Yr in the 2021 GeekWire Awards, joins us on this episode of the GeekWire Podcast for a conversation about the great importance of language, Textio’s evolution, the long term of office technological know-how, regional variances in company language, and her formative working experience as a “Scrabble hustler” in college in Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Sq..

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Podcast edited and generated by Curt Milton.