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Product-Market Fit
Quotes and lessons on product-market fit from 7 founders Charles Cormier interviewed on the Founder Wisdom, CEO Wisdom, and YC Wisdom podcasts.
Quotes across interviews
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
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
Contour is a YC uh summer 2023 companies. Vampy's in uh New York and yeah, it's a pretty cool company.
— Vamsi Saladi, Contour · episode
We're building an AI customer support platform specifically for financial institutions.
— Vamsi Saladi, Contour · 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
We just raised our series A and we've been really growing out the team, scaling it a lot. Seeing a ton of attraction attraction traction in the market and a lot of adoption.
— Will Bodewes, Phonely · episode
Where a lot of our competitors are building you know, chatbots that talk, we've been able to build that two years ago and now we build AI agents that are optimized better than any other agent.
— Will Bodewes, Phonely · episode
the only thing that changed is we put in your own data, your own images. And back in that was in like 2010 and back in those days the images did not look great
— Janus Klok Matthesen, Pixelz · episode
basically we could show them that well the only thing that changed is we put in your own data, your own images. And back in that was in like 2010
— Janus Klok Matthesen, Pixelz · episode
so what am I I'm I've got quite the career Journey But ultimately I'm a communication strategist I'm a digital marketer and six months ago I set up my own content strategy consulting firm called content joinery
— John Normoyle, Content Joinery · episode
the reality is humans are constantly evolving the same way that gen AI is and we're very dubious and we're all kind of like becoming increasingly critical of or better able to analyze what we're seeing
— John Normoyle, Content Joinery · episode
FAQ
What does Clueso do?
Clueso is an AI-powered platform that takes rough screen recordings, such as Loom videos, and automatically converts them into studio-quality product videos with generated audio tracks and written documentation.
How did Prajwal Prakash start his first company, DeskLamp?
DeskLamp started during the COVID-19 pandemic as a PDF reader created by three college friends to help them learn in a remote work environment. The project eventually scaled across colleges in India and got accepted into Y Combinator.
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 is Tyler Postle's educational background?
Tyler Postle started out as a physics major in his undergrad at UC Santa Barbara before catching the entrepreneurial bug. He later built out a career in data science and machine learning.
What is Contour?
Contour is an AI customer support platform built for financial institutions such as banks, credit unions, and B2C fintechs. It offers an omnichannel support solution with a flagship voice product and a co-pilot for human support teams.
What is Vamsi Saladi's role at Contour?
Vamsi Saladi is the CTO and co-founder of Contour. He handles the technical building and engineering side of the company.
What is Phonely?
Phonely is a platform that makes it easy to build an AI voice agent that answers your phone. It connects the plumbing of your calls to calendars, CRMs, and other tools so it can operate and talk like a person.
What is the primary use case for Phonely?
The primary use case is inbound lead qualification. Businesses use it to have AI answer phone calls, ask a few questions to qualify customers, and schedule appointments.
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