Synthesia

“We have one particular competitor that, I mean, literally verbatim copied like our mission statement, like everything I say, they like just copy everything that we do.”

“We had a massive reacceleration kind of the second half of the year and a big part of that is actually because our competitors did a whole bunch of marketing for the category. We clearly had the superior product. And so that actually helped us quite, quite sig…”

“As we just raised a series D which is super exciting, big milestone for us. We raised a hundred million dollars led by NEA with participation from all of our existing investors.”

“One of the interesting things about Synthesia is that when we raised our A to B to C round, It was very much a secret how fast we were growing and how much people love the product.”

“Operating on the constraints that we had at the time really just focused us on our customers and selling the product... Working under constraints... Forces a lot of discipline that's easily gets lost the more money you have”

“The first round was a million dollars... And we ended up doing it at the five million post with Mark Cuban”

“What we're seeing in the London ecosystem is that we're actually building global leaders, not just, like, regional winners of, like, expense management or something like that. Like, you have 11 Labs who are leading in voice. You have us, which is leading in en…”

“We don't, as a company have, we don't see ourselves as having to uphold any kind of right of free speech. And frankly, from a business perspective, having someone pay me 30 dollars a month to create very questionable conspiracy content, it's just not good busi…”

“In 10 years, you're gonna be able to make a Hollywood film from your laptop, needing nothing else than your imagination.”

“I think it, I'm 100% certain that they have to take no seconders at all. We would definitely have thought about selling much earlier.”

“I actually do think that maybe not us, but maybe our kids, kids are going to be one of the last generations they'll read and write as like the default web communication. I think we'll increasingly just consume everything via video and audio.”

“We're most using OpenAI... We've shifted some workloads to Anthropic. We're also using Gemini actually.”

“I do think we are seeing the commoditization of the text generation layer, right? For most of the use cases that We'll see LLMs transform the world as we know it today. I think the current generation technologies are good enough. It's about, of course, improvi…”

“You could make, you know, a video of you talking about something in a couple of years, no one will be able to tell if it's actually real or not, but it won't really matter that much. What matters is that you made it right and that whatever you say in that vide…”

“And it's been a journey for us because the hard thing is you have the, what we call the green content, the content that everyone agrees is great. That's 99.9% of the content.”

“I would take my Cuban again because he truly believed when absolutely no one else believed in us. And I'll be forever grateful to him for doing that.”

“We want to build the best platform to make these end-to-end conversational AI agents, but we explicitly don't want to be building full digital avatar platforms, so that way we're able to be trusted partners to companies like Hey Jen, Synthesia, Captions, who a…”

“I remember when I met Victor from Synthesia the first time, like five, six years ago... And I didn't invest in the seed.”