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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-Driving Robotaxi Market
(40:52) Two New Investments by BigStory: Audigo and ValueSense
(48:25) YC...
Published 05/11/24
Published 05/11/24
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 Companies Do They Review?
54:32 Understanding the Business Side of VCs
01:01:44 Is It Real to...
Published 05/04/24
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: Examples from Podcastle, Krisp, and 10Web
Published 04/27/24
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
Published 04/20/24
(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
Published 04/06/24
(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
Published 03/31/24
(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
Published 03/23/24
(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
Published 03/16/24
(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
Published 03/09/24
(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
Published 03/02/24
(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
Published 02/24/24
(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
Published 02/17/24
(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 managers
(51:40) Value-driven leadership in companies
(54:05) Emotional maturity and feedback
Published 02/11/24
(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 to get first termsheet
(44:10) Why FOMO is important for investors?
(50:20) Why were so...
Published 02/03/24
(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
Published 01/27/24
(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...
Published 01/20/24
(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
Published 01/13/24
(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
Published 01/06/24
(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
Published 12/29/23
(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
Published 12/23/23
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