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Quotes and lessons on ai strategy from 33 founders Charles Cormier interviewed on the Founder Wisdom, CEO Wisdom, and YC Wisdom podcasts.
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Basically we help construction companies, specifically general contractors, put together their on-site documentation more easily.
— Arvind Veluvali, Fresco · episode
We do that using generative AI and we've taken a lot of workflows that have been really annoying because they've traditionally only existed on the desktop and move them over to the phone
— Arvind Veluvali, Fresco · episode
I got my start working on the human genome project. This was at Washington University in St. Louis, which is one of the two institutions leading the the public effort to do that.
— Dave Messina, Pioneer Fund · episode
Today we can sequence a genome for a 100 bucks in an afternoon.
— Dave Messina, Pioneer Fund · episode
My name is Dave David. I'm originally from the Netherlands. I'm currently founding a company in the space of the gut microbiome and how the gut microbiome influences how we respond to drugs and foods that we ingest.
— David de Gruijl, Anto · episode
Essentially, like modeling the gut microbiome is incredibly hard. So just building like kind of uh large AI models in the way that we do with text doesn't result in great u great models.
— David de Gruijl, Anto · episode
Elon preaches Tesla it's a great example of that and those are things that I've you know taken to my core
— Gonzalo Espinosa, Double · episode
whenever you know whether a robot delivered or food it was always very fast like 10 minutes 20 minutes
— Gonzalo Espinosa, Double · episode
Currently we are building a uh platform for product teams where they can do what we call guided coding.
— Ismail Pelaseyed, Superagent · episode
We use Devon internally. I think Devon produces around 70% of our own code.
— Ismail Pelaseyed, Superagent · episode
we're enabling you to invest in a company's earnings or a company's revenue or if it's Netflix for example net subscriber group things of that sort so we're creating an investment platform that lets you invest in kpis for public companies
we're actually launching a paper trading competition very soon so check back on our website in just a couple days definitely by Monday we'll have that app
Leaping makes self-improving voice agents for businesses.
We currently do around 100,000 calls per day on our platform whilst automating, you know, up to 70% of repetitive uh support calls on the phone.
Cluso is a company that I currently co-founded and work for full- time. We create product videos and documentation using AI.
— Prajwal Prakash, Clueso · episode
If you're going to spend your whole day, night, and whole soul on a business, it has to be something that can scale.
— Prajwal Prakash, Clueso · episode
Most of these people are really just ultra high agency you kind of throw them in any situation they just figure out what needs to be done.
— Supreet Deshpande, Cintio Labs · episode
If you want to focus on like hey I want to go work in banking or kind of disrupt how the insurance industry works you need to first understand what sort of the ground reality is.
— Supreet Deshpande, Cintio Labs · episode
My background is in in data science. Um I actually started out as a physics major in in undergrad but caught the entrepreneurial bug early on
— Tyler Postle, Voker.ai · episode
Alex had experienced some pains at the the job he was working at with the state of the tooling that existed for building with LLMs or generative AI.
— Tyler Postle, Voker.ai · episode
I kind of quit my professorship and moved back to San Francisco and continue my startup journey and um it has been a fun ride and this is probably the best place in the world to do startup
— Wesley Zheng · episode
as any startup especially in the hardware space um um is is always a more challenging experience because you are not like a SAS company where you have recurring revenue.
— Wesley Zheng · episode
So essentially what we are is the easiest way for you to build a voice agent that answers your phones.
— Will Bodewes, Phonely · episode
When I was when I was 13 years old, my brothers and I spent 72 days kayaking around Lake Superior, which is 1,200 miles.
— Will Bodewes, Phonely · episode
FAQ
What does Fresco do?
Fresco helps construction companies, specifically general contractors, put together their on-site documentation more easily. They use generative AI to move annoying desktop workflows over to mobile phones.
What does Anto do?
Anto is a YC F25 company focused on pharmacology and gastroenterology. The company uses trained foundation models to predict mechanisms of the gut microbiome and how it influences how humans break down drugs and food.
What is Voker.ai?
Voker.ai is a Y Combinator summer 2024 company co-founded by Tyler Postle and Alex. The platform helps companies build and prototype LLM-powered features into their software, back office, and products without needing an entire in-house AI engineering team.
What was submit order.com and what happened to it?
Submit order.com was an e-commerce fulfillment company that helped large retailers ship items from their websites during the first dot-com boom. It was backed by venture capital and had positive gross margins, but the market collapsed right as they were preparing for their public offering, leading the founders to break up and sell off the company.
How did Erica Lee first get interested in artificial intelligence?
Erica developed an interest in AI after living in a Silicon Valley hacker house surrounded by tech founders and engineers, and after reading Ray Kurzweil's book The Singularity Is Near at a Barnes & Noble.
How has generative AI affected creative advertising fees and client expectations?
Clients expect agencies to do more with fewer people, which has driven down fees and placed pressure on traditional FTE models. It has also reduced production budgets because clients expect screen content to be cheaper to produce using AI prompts.
What technology does Inspekt AI use to inspect buildings?
Inspekt AI utilizes drones to scan every millimeter of a building's exterior. They also employ artificial intelligence to detect flaws and thermal technology to find energy loss.
What is longevity escape velocity?
Longevity escape velocity is the point where therapies postpone aging and rejuvenate the body faster than time is passing, effectively achieving practical control over aging.
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