Build conversation intelligence  apps with insanely accurate speech models

I feel like some of the most challenging times at our company came from blindly following startup dogma or conventional wisdom. And that just didn't work for us because our customers don't want to buy that way. A vision I have for the company is like, I want us to just be like insanely customer focused. Like insane. Our goal is to build the most accurate, the most comprehensive and the easiest to use developer platform to build these speech and voice AI applications.

How do you deal with that responsibility, specifically as a founder, when you keep raising more capital?

I think we went from like 40 people to like 115 people in like under a year. It was like way too fast and definitely wouldn't do that again.

It's interesting. Do you then generally think hiring for someone to figure it out as opposed to hiring for someone to solve?

I don't think you should ever hire someone to figure it out. There's this like, image of what it's like to be a founder and then there's like the reality and for some reason, like, more so now I think you tell me what you think because you've consumed this content for a while, but I feel like there was like a, like a, you know, people talk about like productivity porn or whatever. It's like there's like this like, you know, image that I think is unhealthy of like what a founder or what entrepreneurs like, because you try to aspire to something that's like not real, but then there's the reality. And, and once you realize like, oh, this is actually like what it is, like, then you can, you can. I don't know, it's just more fun. Yeah. You know, like I, I've found myself asking myself this question of like, where are these expectations coming from?