#188
Guests: Victor Riparbelli, CEO and co-founder of Synthesia; and Josh Coyne, partner at Kleiner Perkins
When Victor Riparbelli wants to learn something, he’ll start with a YouTube video or a podcast: “I maybe buy the book on Amazon as like the fifth step,” the Synthesia CEO says. His company is trying to change the text-first (or text-only) way information is conveyed at work, making AI avatar-narrated videos to replace documents like customer profiles and HR manuals. Victor says that as the technology improves over many years, it could replace text entirely. “I think for most people, if they had a choice, they would probably prefer to watch video and listen to audio.”
In this episode, Victor, Josh, and Joubin discuss Seedcamp, Annie Case, Rubik’s Cubes, AI video dubbing, Instagram filters, emotive avatars, Ilya Fushman, Atlassian, Grammarly, the Gutenberg Parenthesis, European startups, email responsiveness, acqui-hires, and being “lonely at the top.”
Chapters:
01:33 Loose screws
02:45 How Victor and Josh met
04:35 AI hype cycles
06:57 What Synthesia does
08:22 Copycats and competition
14:34 Winner take all
16:38 Synthesia’s origin story
21:36 Category creation
23:41 The next era of AI video
28:51 The uncanny valley
30:07 Watching videos at work
33:17 Scaling video and audio content
37:45 Emailing with Mark Cuban
42:40 How Victor proved KP wrong
45:15 Battle scars
48:47 Customer obsession
50:54 Pressure to succeed
54:41 Deep passion
57:16 Who Synthesia is hiring
Links:
Learn more about Synthesia
www.synthesia.io
Learn more about Kleiner Perkins Grit
www.kleinerperkins.com/podcasts
Email: [email protected]
This episode was edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod.fm
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