My accidental business celebrates 3 years with surprising growth
Accidentally building a thriving AI consulting company operating internationally.
It’s fair to say I’ve started my business, ulam.ai, by accident. In September 2016 I finished being a Research Fellow at Oxford and returned to Warsaw to become an assistant professor at Institute of Mathematics of Polish Academy of Sciences. You see, I was a mathematician doing pure mathematics. I was as far from business and practicality as possible back then. In 3 years everything changed.
Business started by accident
Around 2015, while still at Oxford, machine learning picked my interest, while I was looking for a way to automate proving math theorems. On the other hand I was reading tech news regularly so I was aware of amazing success stories of startups (and was naive enough to not know about epic failures of many more). Thus I had a notion of starting and running a business but I found difficult going into that direction as I had a stable position in academia as a researcher in various institutions (Paris, Oxford, Warsaw).
Nevertheless when I got back to Warsaw in 2016 I started talking to friends about potential collaboration. After all many of my old friends went into business and the first…
