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Stephanie Sy - The Hustle Behind Thinking Machines

Stephanie Sy - The Hustle Behind Thinking Machines

Update: 2025-08-17
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In this episode of Hustleshare, we chat with Stephanie Sy, founder and CEO of Thinking Machines, to unpack her journey from Stanford and Silicon Valley to building one of the Philippines’ leading AI and data science companies. Stephanie shares how her early startup attempts and time at Google shaped her hustle, why she made the leap back home to start from scratch, and what it took to grow Thinking Machines in a market that was still new to data science. She also gets real about the challenges of building an AI team in a resource-constrained environment, the scrappy moves that helped them thrive, and how purpose-driven projects are helping shape the future of tech in Southeast Asia.



Learn more about Stephanie Sy:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefsy 

Website: https://thinkingmachin.es/ 



Links/Sponsors:

OneCFO: https://www.onecfoph.co/



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Stephanie Sy - The Hustle Behind Thinking Machines

Stephanie Sy - The Hustle Behind Thinking Machines