The “AI wrapper” debate, AI-powered lead gen, auto-clips, resumes, and more with Sunny Madra | E1792
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 15 August 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Today’s show:
First up, Sunny Madra is back to discuss the “AI wrapper” stigma, the first official demo-to-investment, and demo more useful AI products! (2:41) Then, Tonebase CEO Igor Lichtmann joins to demo his product, break down how he achieved product-market fit while maintaining capital efficiency, and more! (42:47)
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Time stamps:
(0:00) Sunny Madra is back for more AI demos!
(2:41) The “AI wrapper" debate; VenturusAI is joining the LAUNCH Accelerator as the first full-circle demo-to-investment
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(11:23) Klap.app turns YouTube links into multiple TikTok-style videos with captions and ranks them on "Virality Score"
(19:08) Kickresume uses generative AI tools to help users build a fully-fleshed out resumes and prepare for job interviews
(25:15) Lemon.io - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://Lemon.io/twist
(26:34) Browse AI helps users build AI-powered web scraping/data extraction bots with no code
(34:16) Oppwiser is an AI-powered lead gen platform for sales teams
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(42:47) Tonebase CEO Igor Lichtmann joins to demo his music education startup, break down how he achieved product-market fit while maintaining capital efficiency, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | All right, everybody, welcome to Monday. |
| 0:01.9 | I am back in Tahoe just for a little summer, |
| 0:05.0 | John, to see the lake, take the girls out |
| 0:09.5 | for a little rope course, maybe get on the lake |
| 0:13.1 | on a boat or something, some hiking. |
| 0:16.0 | They like to go to the beach, the pool, everything. |
| 0:18.0 | How's your summer going, Sunny? |
| 0:20.0 | Summer's been good, you know, I'm in build mode, |
| 0:23.3 | you know, it's a summer of AI, it's the summer of guests. |
| 0:26.8 | It's all around. |
| 0:27.8 | And so this one's been pretty heavy on the work front |
| 0:30.6 | this year, but that's good. |
| 0:31.8 | It's sort of, it's an important set up summer, I think, |
| 0:34.9 | for a big, big fall, and set up summer. |
| 0:39.8 | Oh, I was calling it no, I started the summer, |
| 0:42.6 | stress free summer. |
| 0:44.7 | Oh no. |
| 0:45.6 | And then I got halfway in and now it's the set up summer. |
| 0:48.1 | I tried to have stress free summer, didn't work. |
| 0:50.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:51.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.4 | But I am doing three years of that 2020, 2021, 2022, |
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