AI-generated South Park, “Holy Grails” of AI & more with Sunny Madra | E1785
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Today’s show:
Sunny Madra joins Jason to discuss Fable Simulation's new AI showrunner (5:51), AI-powered note-takers and CRMs( 37:25), and more!
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(00:00) Sunny Madra joins Jason
(2:27) Using AI to analyze large datasets
(5:51) The WGA strike and Fable Studios’ AI-generated South Park episode
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(13:45) AI-generated South Park continued
(16:58) What is lost with AI and the Modern Seinfeld Twitter account
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(25:10) The pace of innovation with RunwayML
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(37:25) Sunny showcases Folk app’s CRM
(45:29) Sunny demos Circleback
(51:32) Using Claude to break down an investor presentation and Sergey Brin back at Google
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| 0:00.0 | It's like going running alone or going running with a group of people. |
| 0:03.6 | If you run with a group of people, you run further, you run faster, you run better. |
| 0:07.4 | You run alone. |
| 0:08.4 | You had a three people who run alone and I'm in that group, I'm just not going to perform |
| 0:12.8 | at the highest level. |
| 0:13.8 | When I'm in an office, I used to do 20 meetings at a day with founders. |
| 0:19.2 | 20. |
| 0:20.2 | I would go for 12 hours, 20 to 30 minute meetings. |
| 0:24.9 | That's crazy. |
| 0:25.9 | No breaks. |
| 0:26.9 | Eating at the table with a founder. |
| 0:28.9 | No, when we did our accelerator, I'd probably do 30 meetings in a day. |
| 0:32.4 | I would do three groups of 10 and I would give each one 15 minutes, so it's four an hour |
| 0:37.7 | and we were on a clock and the clock was in the corner. |
| 0:41.0 | I mean, YC does this too, everybody does this, but the point is performance goes up in |
| 0:45.6 | a group, in a room. |
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