Shazeer: Character.ai Rejects Product Managers Who Push for Vertical Specialization
Noam Shazeer · Noam Shazeer: How We Spent $2M to Train a Single AI Model and Grew Character.ai to 20M Users | E1055 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Aug 31, 2023 · at 11:00
Noam Shazeer, co-founder and CEO of Character.ai, discusses hiring practices and product strategy for building a general-purpose AI platform.
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“And like, you know, we talked to like some you know, potential product managers early on and they all say the same thing. Oh yeah. Pick your verticals, narrow it down to me, to make it usable. And like, no, we're not going to hire these people. That's like the opposite of what we want to do. We want to build something that is usable, but very, very general purpose.”
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