Building generative AI for pitch decks with Tome CEO Keith Peiris | E1727
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Tome CEO Keith Peiris joins Jason to demo Tome’s AI-powered text-to-presentation platform (10:25). They discuss concerns about the pace of AI and the prevalence of 10x engineers (35:55), before Velocity Growth’s Jen Bryan breaks down how to get started with paid ads (47:19).
(0:00) Jason kicks off the show
(2:013) Tome CEO Keith Peiris joins Jason
(5:27) Creating a pitch deck with Tome
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(10:25) Tome Demo
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(24:28) Datasets and What the future holds
(28:18) Integrating AI elements into Tome's platform
(29:51) Deploying capital responsibly
(31:53) Acquiring talent
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(35:55) Concerns about the pace of AI
(44:12) The prevalence of the 10x engineer
(47:19) Velocity Growth's Jen Bryan on getting started with paid advertising
(48:29) What is advertising?
(50:15) Problem / Solution fit
(53:12) See competitor ads
(54:44) Building custom audiences
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, everybody, happy Monday. Welcome to this week in startups. Today we have two great |
| 0:03.9 | segments for you. First up, I interviewed Tom, CEO, and co-founder Keith Paris. Basically, |
| 0:08.8 | Tom is text to pitch decks offer. Yes, we've been talking about gender of AI. Imagine if you |
| 0:15.2 | could just talk to your PowerPoint. You could talk to, you know, Google presentations, whatever it is. |
| 0:19.7 | Then we have another awesome tactical talk from the founder university podcast, Jen, |
| 0:24.9 | Brian, the CMO of velocity growth is going to walk you through how to get started with paid |
| 0:29.7 | acquisition. You're going to learn how to find and create custom audiences that you can use |
| 0:33.6 | for ad targeting and then how to create engaging and relevant ads where you can find your competitors' |
| 0:38.8 | ads and how to see what's working for them. So hey, listen, you can copy what's working with other |
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