Next Unicorns: Building a $1B AI Avatar Business with Synthesia CEO Victor Riparbelli | E1776
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 12 July 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Today’s show:
Synthesia CEO Victor Riparbelli joins Jason to discuss how his startup uses AI to generate realistic video avatars (10:16) before demoing the product. Then, the two discuss job disruption (31:43), preventing deepfake misuse (45:18), and much more!
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(0:00) Synthesia CEO Victor Riparbelli joins Jason (3:47) Achieving unicorn status after Nvidia-backed fundraise (12:25) Crowdbotics - Get a free scoping session for your next big app idea at crowdbotics.com/twist (13:54) Determining pricing for the product (17:19) Victor demos Synthesia and its AI features (24:38) Coda - Get a $1,000 startup credit at https://coda.io/twist (31:43) Job Disruption: How AI will impact hiring and business functions (39:38) LinkedIn Marketing - Get a $100 LinkedIn ad credit at https://linkedin.com/thisweekinstartups (41:06) AI and dual fate technology (45:18) Preventing DeepFake misuse (52:40) OpenAI hit with a lawsuit
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| 0:00.0 | If you look at the shape of the music industry, right, back in 85 versus today, |
| 0:05.0 | how it's been flattened out, telling you come from anywhere, |
| 0:08.0 | it's about making great music, less than it's about knowing the right people. |
| 0:11.0 | Like all those things, I think, is going to come to the tech industry as well, right? |
| 0:14.0 | We've seen some of that over the last five years, |
| 0:16.0 | but I think as the kind of art of coding becomes more accessible, |
| 0:20.0 | it's like, we know why could you be this eight-person company sitting somewhere in, |
| 0:24.0 | you know, Norway or Denmark or something like that, and create something absolutely amazing. |
| 0:27.0 | This week in startups is brought to you by CrowdBotics. |
| 0:31.0 | Great ideas can change the world, |
| 0:33.0 | and CrowdBotics is the fastest way to turn those ideas into code. |
| 0:37.0 | Get a free scoping session for your next big app idea at CrowdBotics.com slash twist. |
| 0:43.0 | Coda is the all-in-one doc for teams, |
| 0:46.0 | and they just introduced an AI-powered assistant to take the busy out of the work. |
| 0:51.0 | Sign up to use Coda AI today at coda.io slash twist, |
| 0:57.0 | and LinkedIn Marketing. |
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| 1:04.0 | go to LinkedIn.com slash next unicorn. |
| 1:08.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to this week in startups big, big surprise for you. |
| 1:13.0 | Today is the start of the fifth season of a series we call the next unicorns. |
| 1:19.0 | And what is the next unicorns? This is where we find companies that have raised their series B-round, |
| 1:24.0 | let's say they've got some really great traction. |
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