BigStory Podcast

(1:20) Intro and welcome back Artem (CoFounder of Bardeen AI) (4:20) Discussing Google Gemini 1.5 (07:10) Why context length matters (19:10) Will OpenAI business model survive the race? (28:46) Discussing OpenAI Sora and its impact on Video Industry (41:09) CodeSignal Cosmo, How AI disrupts education (49:44 )Armenian AI startups (56:50) Vertical AI companies

(00:00) Intro, Skiing and business opportunities in Georgia (07:41) Should you build for Apple Vision Pro? (27:16) Why we are using English words in the podcast? (36:19) UATE deep dive by Arto (56:13) Deep dive into YC principle #1: Launch Now

(1:14) Intro of Vardan from Picsart Academy, Davit is skiing (10:00) How newbies can get into tech (16:53) Levels of companies in tech (20:50) Why your potential matters when choosing your career (23:65) Can you get to tech without formal education (35:55) How to get a job during layoff times (40:48) Why layoffs are happening for the last 2 years (47:15) Why we don’t have strong founders and manag...

(1:00) Intro and congrats to Podcastle! (4:20) How and when startup founders (and shareholders) get reach? (09:45) Deep dive (11:00) Small bridge round 1.5 year ago, ARR, Burn Multiple, Payback Period, NRR metrics (20:40) Building CRM of investors (25:35) 5 months of deck and dataroom building (29:58) Revenue and 8x growth rate (34:10) How do you plan to spend the funding? (36:50) It took 94 VCs t...

(1:26) Why it's important to spend time in US (10:52) MS CoPilot, All-in-One Software vs Vertical Software (27:32) ElevenLabs's $80M Series B round (41:35) Could Armenia become a leader in Voice & Video AI if it focused on it? (53:05) Going over and analyzing ElevenLabs's pitch deck

(00:00) Welcoming our guest, Davit, co-founder of ActiveLoop (05:22) Meta pivots to AGI and buys 350,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs (25:44) Government is failing to keep Russian Tech Talent in Armenia (40:36) How Davit started ActiveLoop and what does it do (43:51) Davit’s journey with YC Combinator and how it helps founders Linkes: https://www.activeloop.ai/ https://www.ycombinator.com/ https://www.theverg...

(00:00) Welcoming our guest, Artem, co-founder of Bardeen AI (02:18) Last week MS overtook Apple for a day (12:19) Tech layoffs continue in US (20:39) Bitcoin is finally available as ETF (28:12) Discussing Artem's startup - Bardeen (34:19) Rabbit r1 device launch, LAMs and Bardeen (59:57) Sharing our advice on how to become an entrepreneur

(00:00) Happy new year and intro to VCs (04:00) Why VCs have only 10% ROI even with unicorns (08:12) Ownership % taken by VCs (12:42) How VCs make money? (19:48) Can restaurants raise money from VCs ? (29:16) Current state of fundraising markets (37:45) Startups can raise $1M from Armenian VCs

(00:00) Podcast publishing experience (02:55) Krisp 2023 learnings (13:20) Podcastle 2023 learnings (24:40) 10Web 2023 learnings (30:25) 2023 BigStory investments - Waveye, SynthFlow, Corpora, Cloudchipr, Starshunt (45:05) Deep dive into the slow growth of Armenia's Startup Ecosystem

(00:00) Why did we start the podcast? (04:45) Challenges of entrepreneurship in Armenia (13:20) Future of SEO and Google Search (31:17) Future of programming after LLMs (40:09) How will software products be built in the future Referenced in the show: https://www.bigstory.vc/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhCl-GeT4jw