Brian Sathianathan
Co-Founder | Cheif Digital Officer, Cheif Technology Officer
Innovation Platform and AI | Strategy & Curation
Brian started his career at Apple. For 6 of 8 years, he led iPhone and Intel Mac initiatives within Apple's very private Secret Products group. He led two core groups that designed the security and activation platform for the first iPhone, and he holds patents in those areas. Brian was initially hired by Apple for his software development and encryption skills.
Brian left Apple to found Avot Media, a video transcoding platform built for Mobile, where he was CEO. The customer list included companies like Warner Bros. Avot was acquired by Smith Micro, a public company based in Orange County. At Smith Micro, Brian became the head of the video business and was responsible for strategy, vision, and integration.
After Avot, Brian joined the seed-stage investment team at Turner where he sought out startups in the Social, Consumer, Advertising, and Recommendation spaces. Over two years, he made 13 investments, saw two of those companies be acquired (one by Apple).
Patents
Patent granted
Modular Machine Learning [Drag and Droppable Quick AI]
9/15/2020
United States of America
App. No. 10,776,686
Patent Pending
Dynamic Feature Loading [Custom Code Loading]
United States of America
Patent Pending
Dynamic Landscape Creation on Collections [Technology Opportunity Mapping]
United States of America
Patent Pending
Developer Independent Resource Based Multithreading Module [Multithreaded Kernel]
United States of America
Patent Pending
Developer Independent Resource Based Multithreading Module [Multithreaded Kernel]
More About Brian Sathianathan
My most successful innovation work ...
iPhone. As part of Secret Projects, led the security and telecom initiatives for Apple's first iPhone.
Another eye-opener I worked on ...
Avot
Fun Tidbits
Why work with Iterate?
From my perspective, we are the only company in the world, trying to disrupt innovation through software, platforms, and ecosystems. I believe in Marc Andreesen's statement that software will eat the world. I believe the world of digital innovation is prime for this form of disruption. I am on a crusade to make that happen via Iterate's platforms and Interplay.
You may not know about me ...
I am very good at making mudslides. For my wife’s school reunion, the bartender was late, I jumped in and made mudslides for a few guests.
Favorite Books About Innovation and Why
One Favorite Book
by Mike Isaac
Brian's thoughts: I like this book because it walks through Uber’s rapid growth and its people's failures. Even with all its losses, Uber used software and growth hacking to disrupt the deeply established transportation industry. I got a real kick out of how they built "Greyball''. Our technology has far advanced and surpassed the laws, governments, and ecosystems in place today. We need to catch up fast.
Another Favorite Book
by Safi Bahcall
Brian's thoughts: Its a very good practical guide book to create and manage innovation intititives. This book also covers the concept of "Phase Shifts" where innovative people under different cicumstances could become less innovative and vice-versa.
A Third Favorite Book
by Richard Branson
Brian's thoughts: This is the autobography of Sir Richard Branson on how built the Virgin Empire, its a wonderful innovation journey and a fun read.
More Favorites
Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalistby Jason Mendelson and Brad Feld
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Futureby Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motorsby Edward Niedermeyer