Node's Fatemi Reflects on the Next Age of Cloud, Machine Learning and Search

Falon Fatemi, an entrepreneur and former Alphabet (GOOGL) employee, was kind enough to stop by Barron's offices this afternoon to discuss her latest initiative, Node, a startup based in San Francisco's SOMA district, stuck in between Pinterest and AirBnB. Fatemi claims the distinction of having been the youngest employee at the time at Google, starting at age 19 in 2005 and working there until 2011. She was in town for the Sales Machine Summit conference in Manhattan, being sponsored by Salesforce.com (CRM), which is a partner of Node's. Her VP in charge of revenue, Daniel Barber, was giving a talk Thursday at the conference. Fatemi, who has received 7.5 million in seed funding from VCs including Mark Cuban, NEA, Avalon Ventures, and Canaan Partners, is aiming to bring a "graph of relationships" to replace plain old searching for information.