Hi, I'm Will Murphy. I obsess over strategy, product, technology, and design
and I have a passion for making groups of any size more innovative.
I'm the creator of the concept of the "probabilistic product", the new set of design patterns for designing AI-driven products.
And, the creator of The 10 Principles of Intelligent Agent Design.
I previously led early-stage AI bets at Data.ai (formerly App Annie), bringing many of them to market. I'm an OnDeck Fellow (Founder Fellow and Corporate Innovation Fellow). I founded MessagePath, a top 5 AI Writing Assistant Software (G2.com). Before that, I was founding Head of Product at Talla, an enterprise AI chatbot startup that was acquired. Prior to that, I was a co-founder of SenseAware, a pioneering IoT analytics startup for FedEx. In my free time, I founded, built, launched, and sold SurfRate, a web search engine based on user reviews. I led early-stage bets at the FedEx New Product Innovation Labs, the company’s former emerging tech and new product lab. (We had a good run.) While there I spearheaded data-driven commerce opportunities and pitched the concept that became FedEx DataWorks, FedEx's data science division. I also founded the EPICenter Logistics Innovation Accelerator (startup accelerator), sponsored by FedEx. I hold multiple patents in AI, intelligent agents, online ads, e-commerce, data management, knowledge graphs, and IoT.
I'm an occasional guest speaker at venues such as Stanford University, MIT VLAB, the Global Artificial Intelligence Conference, The AI Conference, General Assembly, the World Crypto Economic Forum, and SVI Academy, where I speak about AI and innovation.
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I previously led early-stage AI bets at Data.ai (formerly App Annie), bringing many of them to market. I'm an OnDeck Fellow (Founder Fellow and Corporate Innovation Fellow). I founded MessagePath, a top 5 AI Writing Assistant Software (G2.com). Before that, I was founding Head of Product at Talla, an enterprise AI chatbot startup that was acquired. Prior to that, I was a co-founder of SenseAware, a pioneering IoT analytics startup for FedEx. In my free time, I founded, built, launched, and sold SurfRate, a web search engine based on user reviews. I led early-stage bets at the FedEx New Product Innovation Labs, the company’s former emerging tech and new product lab. (We had a good run.) While there I spearheaded data-driven commerce opportunities and pitched the concept that became FedEx DataWorks, FedEx's data science division. I also founded the EPICenter Logistics Innovation Accelerator (startup accelerator), sponsored by FedEx. I hold multiple patents in AI, intelligent agents, online ads, e-commerce, data management, knowledge graphs, and IoT.
I'm an occasional guest speaker at venues such as Stanford University, MIT VLAB, the Global Artificial Intelligence Conference, The AI Conference, General Assembly, the World Crypto Economic Forum, and SVI Academy, where I speak about AI and innovation.
My Links
My Projects
Writing
- Probabalistic Products: Product Management, Design, and Development's next big thing
- Data and the Future of Value
- The 10 Principles of Intelligent Agent Design
- Porter’s Five Forces of Data
- 12 tips for Designing and Managing an AI-driven product (Venture Beat)
- The AI Sense and Respond Framework
- Augmented Intelligence: Building exoskeletons for the mind
- Managing Future Digital Employees
- Data is the New Oil
- You’re Not Decentralized: The 4 levels of true decentralization
- The Forever Company
- 12 tips for Designing and Managing an AI-driven product
Speaking & Videos
- Stanford Talk: Rights, Revenues and Responsibilities in the Supply Chain of Data
- Chatbots: The Machines Are Talking Back (MIT VLab)
- AI: Behind and Ahead - AI Tech Share Meeting
- Building Blockchain Companies (Presentation)
- AI & Business - Opportunities & Dangers
Previous Speaking Engagements
- Stanford University MediaX – Rights, Revenues, and Responsibilities in the Supply Chain of Data
- Stanford University Leadership Garage – Innovation, leadership, and the Silicon Valley mindset
- MIT VLAB – The Machines are Talking Back
- SVI Academy – Innovation in Startups
- Monage, Computer History Museum – CONVERGENCE of Computing, Cryptocurrency, AI, Communications, Messaging and the underlying ecosystems
- World Crypto Economic Forum
- Global Artificial Intelligence Conference – Beyond Chatbots: The future of AI
- General Assembly – Innovators Breakfast Series
- The AI Conference
Patents
- Graph Augmentation for New Applications using Machine Learning Techniques (Pending)
- State Machine Methods and Apparatus Executing Natural Language Communications and AI Agents Monitoring Status and Triggering Transitions
- Sensor-Based Logistics System
- Systems and Methods for Creating and Delivering Digital Assets
- Systems and Methods for Creating and Delivering Digital Advertisements in a Delivery Ad Network
- Systems and Methods for Trip Management
