Tell me you’re a founder with two young boys without telling me you’re a founder with two young boys.... In the #procurement world, we can’t do everything. We’re often dealing with strategic trade offs and focusing our time to drive the largest business value. Sometimes, you just have to let the weeds 🌿 grow in one area to take care of other areas!

While I can sometimes feel 19, unfortunately this is not me. 🏌🏻 Thank you to the random (and some not so random) people who reached out via my rosezhong handle on LinkedIn, IG, Facebook, and Twitter 😂 Maybe someday Rose Zhang will get messages congratulating her and the Sudozi team on building the best Procurement AI software!

If you haven't been building AI models your entire life and you want to understand a bit more about these models... where do you start? 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐒!! 🎲🎲 Jumping right into complex language models is like trying to do a Simone Biles style backflip before nailing a cartwheel. 🤸🏽‍♀️

What kind of crazy woman starts a company when she has a 1 year old 👶🏻 and is pregnant 🤰🏻 with her second? Oh wait… that’s me…😁 As a CFO, I was so frustrated with the options on the market to connect the dots between procurement, vendor renewals, risk management, payments and budgets. I decided to start my own company to solve my procurement and finance problems. A little over two years ago, I started Sudozi to build a solution that: 👀 Increases visibility ✂️ Reduces wasted spend 📈 Enables smart growth

👩🏻‍💼 Investors and CEO: “We need more AI - NOW” 👩🏻‍💻 Product and Engineering: "We need more hardware to power these super cool new models" 🙋🏻‍♀️ Procurement and Finance: "We can buy the hardware you're asking for....but are you sure the improvements justify the extra investment?"

Kicking off this Friday with some optimism ☀️ Like so many Chinese citizens last December, my 99 year old grandfather got COVID and was hospitalized in a Shanghai hospital ICU (he was lucky to get a bed). He’s been in the ICU, on a ventilator, and using a feeding tube for most of 2023 (100+ days!). During April, he started weaning off the ventilator and back on solid foods.