BigStory Podcast

(00:00) Intro (01:39) Introduction to EasyDMARC: How They Launched and Tackled Email Security (08:27) The Decision to Fundraise: Why EasyDMARC Chose to Seek Investment (21:11) Navigating the VC World: Insights on Building Relationships and Choosing the Right Partners (43:36) Key Lessons Learned (57:23) Final Reflections and Takeaways

(00։00) Intro (03:48) What is UATE? Overview & Members (07:23) Armath Laboratories: A Successful Educational Project (28:28) Digitec: Armenia's Top Tech Event Preview (50:18) Behind Sargis' Decision to Lead UATE

(00:00) Intro (02:02) DeepSat Startup: How It Began (12:05)Technical Aspects of Earth Observation from Space: The Unexplored Challenges (18:30) DeepSat's Business Model Explained (29:54) Hiring Space Tech Talent in Armenia (36:05) DeepSat's Roadmap: Key Stages and Plans (44:08) Competition in DeepSat's Niche (59:21) BigStory VC's Investment in DeepSat

(00:00) Episode Intro (01:30) Introducing Guest Ari Baranian, Co-Founder of Pirros (09:03) Working Hard: A Startup Necessity (16:17) How Pirros Generates Revenue and Grows with Short Milestones (23:45) Bootstrapping vs. Raising Funds: Handling Dilution (32:15) Pirros' Go-to-Market Strategy (40:39) Why Armenians in LA Aren't Founding Many Startups

(00:00) Intro (01:59) Feedback from Our Episode with the High Tech Ministry (05:21) The Latest AI Startup Raises Last Week (09:47) Spotlight on Anduril, a Revolutionary Defense Tech Startup (18:35) Groq and Grok (23:59) Wall Street's Growing Skepticism Toward AI Investments (26:07) YC Video Insights: How to Price Your B2B Products (47:08) YC Advice: Founder Relationships Matter More Than You Think

(00:00) Intro (05:56) New in Tech: How Mkhitar Hayrapetyan Is Diving into the Industry (25:58) Metrics for Measuring the Effectiveness of the HTI Ministry (34:24) Insights into the New Legislation for Armenia's High-Tech Industry (45:33) Why Not Only Engineers, But Also Entrepreneurs, Are Key to Boosting the Industry (51:35) The Minister's Work Habits and Strategies for Speeding Up Ministry Operat...

(00:00) Intro (01:33) Introducing the Guest: Karen Movsisyan (06:46) From a Big Company to a Startup (10:48) Growing the Team: Do You Need a Manager? (20:19) How to Identify a Good Manager (37:47) Research Management (45:52) The Future of Engineering Culture (59:46) Do People with an Engineering Background Have a Better Career Outlook?

(00:00) Intro (01:26) Podcastle's New Office in Yerevan (14:05) Financial Management in Startups: Is It Worth It? (18:55) SaaS Business in the Age of AI (28:51) Automation vs. Hiring: Which Is More Efficient for Startups? (37:38) Startup Dilution: Understanding Investment Stages and Equity Splits

(01:54) Davit Prepares for His Jiu-Jitsu Tournament Fight (09:27) OpenAI Revenue Allocation (13:49) The AI Race Between Big Tech and Niche Companies: Who Will Survive? (28:41) How Capitalism and Technology Have Driven World’s Growth (33:58) How Robotaxis Could Disrupt the Car Industry (40:52) YC Advice: Valuation is Not Equal to Success

(01:35) Guest Intro: Vach Hovsepyan (06:52) Getting Out of Bubbles (11:30) PwC Experience: Insights from Management and Consultancy (19:42) Vach's Journey to ServiceTitan (39:24) The Importance of Customer Success Teams (52:02) ServiceTitan in Armenia: A Unique Approach and Story

(01:35) Guest Intro: Hrant Gharibyan, Co-Founder & CEO of BlueQubit (07:48) What's Quantum Computing? (20:09) What's BlueQubit role in Quantum Tech? (25:02) Why are Companies Investing in Quantum? (28:57) Quantum: The Next Big Thing (35:39) DARPA and US Gov Support for Deep Tech (43:00) The Funding Stages of Deep Tech Startups (50:07) Reflection: Why We Invested in BlueQubit

BigStory VC investors and tech founders Davit Baghdasaryan, Arto Minasyan, Arto Yeritsyan cover all things tech, startups and investments. (01:34) Meet Levon Brutyan, Co-Founder of Collectly (09:24) The Journey of Collectly: How It All Started (23:04) The First Raise and Path to Y Combinator (34:57) Before and After Y Combinator: Collectly's Transformation (48:06) The Current Stage of Collectly

(02:31) Allocating Startup Shares Among the First 10 Cofounders (24:59) Focusing on One Use Case vs. Embracing a Broader Vision (45:53) Counterpositioning: Entering Markets Dominated by Giants (49:41) YC Advice: Don’t Scale Your Team/Product Until You've Built Something People Want

(00:00) We're Back (02:19) BigStory VC Portfolio Startups' New Raises (03:49) US Trip Impressions: SF's Empty Streets, Bay Area Advantages for Startups (11:26) Self-Driving Taxis: Politics vs. Innovation Dilemma (16:38) Apple AI Demo (22:18) Why AI Startups Must Follow What Tech Giants Do (40:35) YC Advice #9: Growth is the Result of a Great Product, Not the Precursor (48:00) Estimations about Kri...

(02:22) Yeritsyan's 1st Visit to London, the UK's Startup Ecosystem (10:16) Krisp's Preparation for Las Vegas CCW 2024 (16:23) OpenAI's GPT-4o Demo (24:57) $1B Raised by AI Startups in One Week (41:23) YC advice: Write Code, Talk to People (52:17) YC advice: It's Not Your Money

BigStory VC investors and tech founders Davit Baghdasaryan, Arto Minasyan, Arto Yeritsyan cover all things tech, startups and investments. The podcast is in Armenian. (01:40) 20th episode - A Milestone Episode (03:31) Finding Work-Life Balance (11:45) Devin's Raise and Their Demo Issues (21:33) X.AI and Musk's Intention to Create a Truth-Seeking AI News (27:09) Tesla's Prospects in the Self-Drivin...

BigStory VC investors and tech founders Davit Baghdasaryan, Arto Minasyan, Arto Yeritsyan cover all things tech, startups and investments. 01:44 Introducing Alex 05:44 Why Did RTP Invest in Two Armenian Startups? 19:48 Different Decision-Making Approaches in VCs 24:44 Datadog Investment Story 31:01 Finding the Right Stage Investors for Startups 39:48 What RTP Looks for in Founders 43:58 How Many C...

BigStory VC investors and tech founders Davit Baghdasaryan, Arto Minasyan, Arto Yeritsyan cover all things tech, startups and investments. (the podcast is in Armenian) 01:39 Electric Vehicles 11:47 Khosla predictions: AI tutors and AI doctors 25:06 Khosla predictions: Robots as a workforce 31:32 The Moxy robot 33:40 YC Advice: Find 10-100 customers who love your product 46:00 ICP Explained: Exampl...

02:29 RAISE summit in Paris 05:10 Groq Founder and his vision about AI 11:35 Groq Demo 14:37 Llama 3 model 18:33 On-device AI models 25:42 Meta's strategy of open-sourcing 31:09 How Pavel Durov runs Telegram 32:07 VC Investors in Yerevan 37:08 Investing in Armenian Startups 45:22 YC advice: Find the 90 / 10 solution

(03:59) Education versus Skills (11:05) Areg's background (16:22) Working at Intel (19:29) Why did Intel have challenges in the AI battle and how they are responding (27:37) What is an AI Compiler (35:40) Fundamental knowledge (45:50) Education on fundamental knowledge in Armenia (59:56) Reasons why Intel doesn't have an office in Armenia

(02:22) Activeloop Series A raise (11:45) About Activeloop (17:35) Activeloop's competitors (29:19) Krisp ad break)) (32:06) How to cope with stress (42:31 )VC vs Bootstraped (45:30) Krisp's story (48:40) Hiring problem after raise (55:59) Final Q&A with Davit

(02:30) Karen Simonyan Microsoft AI (07:30) Saudi Arabia $40B AI Fund (13:05) Armenian Language and AI (22:20) Claude Demo (39:38) Happy Birthday, Davit (42:22) YC Do things that don't scale (57:00) Wrap Up

(00:00) Intro (01:38) Raffi’s Lago’s $22M raise (11:12) AI engineers (29:00) Spotify vs Apple update (33:00) Arto dives deep into SEO (54:34) Content Marketing

(01:30) Why is Nvidia growing (12:00) Nvidia CUDA is their superpower (14:25) Buying GPUs is hard now (18:36) Training compute vs Inference compute (20:02) Spotify vs Apple legal case (25:34) Is Apple a monopoly? (32:45) SpaceX launches 3 rockets withing 20 hours (36:04) What SpaceTech problem can Armenian engineers excel at? (38:15) Deep dive into YC advice #2: Build something people want

(1:23) Intro, Skiing and MyLer (3:25) Mistral AI raised $415M round (9:58) Why Tech is slow in Europe, EU Tech vs US Tech (30:55) Armenia Tech Insights report (32:52) Tech Salaries in Armenia (47:50) Compensation in US Tech