{"id":125804,"date":"2021-08-03T23:24:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T06:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/veteran-software-engineer-launches-ai-startup-hal9-while-battling-long-covid-and-pandemic-concerns"},"modified":"2021-08-03T23:24:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T06:24:16","slug":"veteran-software-engineer-launches-ai-startup-hal9-while-battling-long-covid-and-pandemic-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/veteran-software-engineer-launches-ai-startup-hal9-while-battling-long-covid-and-pandemic-concerns","title":{"rendered":"Veteran software engineer launches AI startup Hal9 while battling long COVID and pandemic concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/veteran-software-engineer-launches-ai-startup-hal9-while-battling-long-covid-and-pandemic-concerns.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is there ever really a good time to launch a startup?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the question <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/javierluraschi\/\">Javier Luraschi<\/a> was asking and sort of answering for himself in discussing his effort to \u201cdemocratize artificial intelligence\u201d through his new company called <a href=\"https:\/\/hal9.ai\/\">Hal9<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And while getting a startup off the ground is challenging enough under normal circumstances, Luraschi made his move during the COVID-19 pandemic and while suffering the effects of and searching for answers to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/as-vaccines-do-their-work-focus-moves-to-long-covid-11627038001\">long COVID<\/a>, a condition in which people experience symptoms of the illness for extended periods of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there ever really a good time to launch a startup? That\u2019s the question Javier Luraschi was asking and sort of answering for himself in discussing his effort to \u201cdemocratize artificial intelligence\u201d through his new company called Hal9. And while getting a startup off the ground is challenging enough under normal circumstances, Luraschi made his [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}