PhotoRoom

“Take photo room. It's a prosumer product. We started on mobile. It's successful, not just in the US, but also in emerging countries. And now we're bringing the same product to web, to teams, and we have an API that people are paying 600 digits for a year.”

“If you look at models closer to Runway ML or Stability AI or like PhotoRoom in Paris, you see these AI native startups that are actually building, training their own models. And how they can, in my opinion, build much better things than the ones that just use …”

“We have an API, like, people can use your API the way they want, like, and you learn a lot from it, but I think it's really important in your product development roadmap when you focus to say, okay, we're going to, like, to focus on this persona It's going to …”

“And one thing that worked amazingly well for Photorum is With Elliot, we just, like, from the beginning, every six months, we would focus more. So we started with video and photo, and they say, like, okay, let's just do photo. And then we started to say, okay,…”

“Well, we're on the same track, and we'll be doing one billion for our different audience.”

“If you want to be efficient, and you want to be able to scale, like, fast, like us, I think jumping on the yearly by default is the best option, and it's actually how you create Like OCA also like retain users. So most of people like going on early is a really…”

“You shouldn't wait longer than like a one hour to test again. Yeah. That's how you iterate fast and learn faster.”

“A more, like, practical thing I think is a second misconception is people don't like to write prompts. Like, it's kind of a command line interface, and for a lot of things, it doesn't make sense to, like to input text, I would say.”

“A good app is an app that a five-year-old can use it.”

“I had a very strong belief that you could only innovate in and be creative in person. Well, we started with Elliott and COVID hit, and we just like, okay, it's time to build a remote company and be hybrid, and while we're thriving, we are very international, s…”

“So, we have one hundred million downloads.”

“In terms of capital efficiency, like, one of the secrets of mobile apps is people are willing to pay up front, and so, I mean, you have a payback of one month, so you don't need that much capital on the ad side.”

“And they did, like, a big part of their marketing was using PhotoRoom to create, like, a Barbie poster for anyone in their audience. So the, they used our tech. It was a partnership.”

“A big part of the team has been freelancing at some point.”

“For photo editing, I don't think it makes sense to have, like layers and masks and pixels, like, this is, like, an abstraction that should go away in the UI.”

“One of the consequences of like being Very demanding in the people you hire is you have a small team, and a lot of things are, have, like, a paper seat, like an office is a paper seat model, the tools are a paper seat model, so you can pay a high price because…”

“What Photom does is, like, being 10 X faster than everything on market, because we are focusing on one use case”

“I think, like, every four, I don't know what the number, but every three, four years, like, software efficiency makes you, makes it possible for a three X, like, smaller team to take, to make the same amount of revenue than a bigger team, and that's actually a…”

“Actually, I think YC say, like, we were one of the, they never saw a company growing that fast, like, with this much capital, so this low capital, so indeed it's quite uncommon.”

“I mean, as long as you don't have product market fit, you shouldn't expand anything.”

“Features that are like minimal, lovable product that you execute extremely well are the beginning of a lot of like of successful products. And so I do believe like focusing and making people extremely happy with what you do is more important than being very wi…”