S8 E20: Artem Koren, Sembly AI

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

Tech News, News, Business, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Artem Koren is now based in Amsterdam, and has been a techy since his early years. He was programming Q-basic and C in 5th grade, and building web applications in High School. Post school at Columbia, he started working at .COM businesses, but found himself dis-enchanted with the state of AI. Outside of tech, he loves chess, attending running club, Jui Jitsu, and cosmology - the study of space, black holes, and things like that. Artem and his co-founder have years of experience in digital transformation. With the latest innovations in AI proving useful, they decided to make digesting, and utilizing, information from meetings easier - using said AI. This is the creation story of Sembly AI. 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	We built some custom solutions for scaling different parts of our system differently.
0:06.4	All the while, of course, from the very gag go, we were dockerized and we were using Kubernetes and things like that.
0:11.9	But in many cases, that wasn't enough, especially in our case, like it's interesting, you know, meetings tend to start at the top of the hour.
0:19.3	And so you would have like
0:21.1	this barrage of instantiation of meeting sessions all around the same time. And then meetings
0:27.3	finish around the same time. And so you really have to build a platform that, you know, can scale
0:32.3	very flexibly and quickly on demand and handle these peak loads, which we were constantly at.
0:40.2	My name is Artem Corrin.
0:43.8	I'm the co-founder and chief product officer of Assembly AI.
0:48.5	This is Code Story.
0:52.3	A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries. It's six months moonlighting.
0:53.9	There's nothing on the backcats.
0:55.8	Who share what it takes to change in industry.
0:58.3	I don't exactly know what to do next.
1:00.2	It took many goes to get right.
1:02.0	Who built the teams that have their back.
1:04.5	The company is its people.
1:06.1	The teams help each other achieve.
1:07.5	Most proud of our team.
1:09.0	Keeping scalability top of mind.
1:11.6	All that infrastructure is a pain.
1:12.8	Yes, we've been fighting it as a group.
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