Don’t Do Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
Don’t do jiujitsu. Especially not the Brazilian type, or BJJ as we call it. This is, basically, the whole post. No, seriously, don’t. They call it a…
Read essayFounder, operator and writer
I build companies around hard financial problems.
I’m Ohad Samet, co-founder and CEO of TrueML. For more than 20 years, I’ve worked on fraud, payments, consumer credit and debt collection, usually with machine learning somewhere in the stack.
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My Own Private Midlife Crisis
A few years ago I fired myself from the day to day management of TrueML. The pressures of heavy travel and daily firefighting were wearing me out and…
Read essayYou don’t need a new board member. Most of the time.
My name is Ohad, and I’m a board member. It took some effort to admit this, given how much crap I’ve given the idea of board members, especially…
Read essaySlack and email aren’t going anywhere
I’ve been thinking about why I was so intrigued by the C-levels who decided to ban committees. It’s not that I’m a fan of committees; they often…
Read essayAn Introduction to Gustavo Batista’s Guard Passing
If you’ve spent any time watching high-level Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu competition, you’ve likely come across Gustavo Batista. His passing system is a…
Read essay11 years
I’ve started getting Linkedin messages again, congratulating me on my work anniversary. I have a bunch of fake positions listed (I mean, being my…
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More than a decade of writing about risk, companies, management and life.
Work
Most of my career has been spent making decisions where mistakes are expensive, then building systems and teams to make them better.
Work historyTrueML, 2013 to presentCo-founder and CEO of TrueML, including TrueAccord and Retain
Klarna, 2011 to 2013Chief Risk Officer, responsible for real-time consumer credit
Analyzd and Signifyd, 2010 to 2011Co-founder, working on credit underwriting and fraud prevention
PayPal and FraudSciences, 2005 to 2010Fraud analytics and risk for new PayPal products