S6 Bonus: Rob Carpenter, Valyant

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🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Rob Carpenter was born and raised in Dillingham, Alaska - and no... he can't see Russia from his back steps. He has been a long term space ship nerd, and confesses that one of the reason he got into entrepreneurship is because he wants to eventually secure a ticket to space. Currently, he lives outside of Boulder, Colorado with his young family, and really enjoys the outdoors, growing his company, and taking good care of his little ones. While his kids are young, he loves to take the kids hiking, swimming at the pool, and going to the zoo and local animal sanctuaries. Rob started a company, wanting to originally create holographic employees, using a gaming engine - and they even named this employee Holly. What they figured out during that process was that conversational AI hadn't been solved yet, and if they were ever going to make their original idea work, they would have to solve it. So... they got heads down solving it. This is the creation story of Valyant. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	So we actually got our product into the market in October of 2018 for the first time. And it was a very
0:08.1	interesting experience because we didn't come from a restaurant background. So we didn't really even
0:14.3	know how anything worked. We really just kind of made it up as we went along. You know, the first
0:20.2	version of our hardware, our senior
0:22.6	electrical engineer literally borrowed a piece of Tupperware from his wife and then packed it with
0:28.4	all of the guts of the first version of our computer. And it was a lot of trial and error to get this
0:34.7	Tupperware computer to work.
0:42.3	My name is Rob Carpenter. I'm the founder and CEO of Valiant AI.
0:59.2	This is Code Story, the podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries who share in the critical moments of what it takes to change in industry and build and lead.
1:01.1	A team that has your back.
1:11.9	I'm your host, Noah Lappart, and today how Rob Carpenter built the best conversational AI for the quick serve restaurant industry.
1:14.7	All this and more.
1:16.0	Oncoat story.
1:23.2	Rob Carbender was born and raised in Dillingham, Alaska.
1:26.0	And no, he can't see Russia from his back steps.
1:30.6	He's been a long-time spaceship nerd and confesses that one of the reason he got into entrepreneurship is because he wants to eventually secure a ticket to space.
1:35.5	Currently, he lives outside of Boulder, Colorado, with his young family, and really enjoys
1:39.3	the outdoors, growing his company, and taking good care of his little ones.
1:43.6	While his kids are young, he loves to take the kids hiking, swimming at the pool,
1:47.2	and going to the zoo and local animal sanctuaries.
1:50.8	Rob started a company, wanting to originally create holographic employees,
1:55.1	and they even named this employee Holly.
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