Drawing the Future with AI featuring tldraw’s Steve Ruiz | E1863
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Today’s show:
Steve Ruiz, Founder of tldraw, joins Jason to discuss how Make Real went viral just one week after a recent funding round (5:35), diving into the debate of creating consciousness with AI (20:41), highlighting tldraw's versatility with multiple demonstrations including creating a stopwatch from simple sketches (24:21), and much more!
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Steve Ruiz, Founder of tldraw, joins Jason.
(2:26) The story behind tldraw and exploring its origins.
(5:35) Discussing tldraw's business and how Make Real went viral just one week after a recent venture round.
(6:46) Understanding “Open Core”
(7:59) Demos: tldraw and Make Real, including the creation of a color picker.
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(14:42) Further exploring tldraw demos using Iterations
(16:18) How multimodal AI responds to different instructions.
(20:41) Are we creating consciousness in AI or merely simulating it?
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(24:21) More demos! Creating a stopwatch application with varied approaches.
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(32:42) The future of tldraw and its potential to integrate across various AI models.
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| 0:00.0 | first off to see how well this worked and how much it cut out and to watch people who'd never programmed before or never really thought of themselves as |
| 0:07.8 | folks who can can have a creative experience with digital stuff |
| 0:12.3 | you know just try the sk kids like for the first time. |
| 0:15.0 | It was incredible and yeah it went really, really viral. |
| 0:19.0 | This week in startups is brought to you by |
| 0:22.0 | Miro helps take ideas from in your head to out |
| 0:25.0 | there in the world with its ability to democratize, collaboration, and input. |
| 0:29.8 | Sign up for free at meiro.com slash startups. |
| 0:34.4 | The Equinix startup program provides hybrid infrastructure solutions for startups, including |
| 0:39.6 | up to $100,000 in credits and personalize and guidance from the Equinix team. |
| 0:46.0 | Go to Equinix Startups.com to apply today. |
| 0:50.2 | And Net Suite, once your business gets to a certain size, the cracks start to emerge. |
| 0:55.0 | Things you used to do in a day, take a week. |
| 0:58.0 | You deserve a customized solution, and that's Net Suite. |
| 1:02.0 | Learn more when you download NetSuite's popular KPI checklist, absolutely free at NetSuite.com |
| 1:09.0 | slash Twist. |
| 1:10.0 | All right, last week, Sunny Madra and I demoed a really interesting product called Make Real. |
| 1:16.0 | It's by a startup called T.L. Draw. And Sunny was able to recreate the classic game of Pong in just a few minutes by drawing. We were completely |
| 1:26.0 | blown away aye and building of products from sketches is generally falls under two pieces of the AI puzzle. You have |
| 1:36.1 | multimodal mode where you can take images, text, video, you know, all code, data, and then create output. And then there's of course |
| 1:47.3 | writing code and those are copilots like the GitHub co-pilot and Riplet has one and many other people have them. |
| 1:54.0 | And so we have just been amazed at how many different |
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