Parya Lotfi, founder & CEO of DuckDuckGoose, on starting a business in deepfakes

Born in Iran, Parya moved to the Netherlands at the age of twelve. She has a background in systems engineering at Technical University of Delft. There, together with Joris Mollinga and Mark Evenblij she founded DuckDuck Goose - a remarkable company on a mission to detect deepfake.

DuckDuckGoose first clients included the NFI (Dutch Forensic Institute) and the Dutch House of Representatives. In 2022 the European organization IDNext awarded DuckDuckGoose won the Digital Innovation Award 2022.

In this episode, we'll cover the following topics:

• How to spot a deepfake;
• Starting a business out of University;
• Growing as a leader and as a team;

Links mentioned:

• People: Parya Lotfi, Mark Evenblij, Hajo de Boer, Ewout Karel, John van Schagen, Leonne Dieleman, Joe Bloemendaal, Jin Han, Ian Wachters, Hans Henseler, Joris Mollinga
• Companies: DuckDuckGoose, TU Delft, NFI, YES!Delft, BNR
• Media: Tom Cruise Deepfake, Baraye - Shervin  
• Other: IDNext Awards, GDPR, TU Delft Impact Contest