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Mehta: Consumers will transact directly with conversational AI assistants
“Not only would consumers be talking with an AI They would actually transact with one.”
Mehta: Messaging is the best transactional interface for infrequently used services
“Our thesis on that is that for infrequently used services, messaging is the best interface. So what I mean by that is that if you use Uber every day, you would take the pain to download an app, learn an interface, and use it. You know, the other services for t…”
Msg.ai raised seed round backed by DeepMind and OpenAI founders
“We raised the seed round around October last year. We were fortunate to have you know, some of the best AI people be in that round. The founders of Google, DeepMind, Tamis and Mustafa the CTO of OpenAI, Greg Brockman, the chief scientist at the New York Times,…”
Mehta: Best investor conversations focus on scaling rather than validating
“And the most exciting investor conversations we normally have all follow the same format. They start with saying, we can see what you're doing. We know it is going to be big. So let's spend our time talking about what would make it even bigger.”
Mehta: Choosing startup investors is more serious than marriage
“Take it seriously because in, in my mind it's even more serious than marriage. You know, you are really going to be working together in the long term, so, so make sure you get along well, not just you know, from an intellectual level, but really at somewhat of…”
Mehta: Startups should build products strong enough to sell themselves
“You have to build your startup enough where it does the selling and pitching for you, not the other way around.”
Mehta: Top four messaging apps have over 3 billion users combined
“If you look at just the top four messaging apps, there are three billion people there now. So that's bigger than all of social put together.”
Mehta: Context-blind messaging bots will fail to deliver on AI promise
“What concerns me is not what could prevent growth, but what I call the possible messaging gold rush. And if businesses try to build messaging apps, you know, without truly understanding real-time customer context, or without leveraging human-assisted AI for sc…”
Mehta: Messaging as primary interface shifted from contrarian to industry consensus
“You know, when we started Message.ai, that was the case. You know, our core thesis was this would become the next big interface, and not everybody agreed with us then, but now most people do, so it's exciting to see that change.”
Mehta: WeChat and WhatsApp represent ideal platforms for AI applications
“When I saw the messaging revolution essentially take off with what WeChat is doing in China, and what businesses are trying to do by using WhatsApp in India, you know, instead of giving their phone number, they now give you their WhatsApp ID. And I was like, o…”
Mehta: Msg.ai achieved 100% month-over-month growth after joining Y Combinator
“After we started YC this year, we've been growing a hundred percent month over month.”
Mehta: Msg.ai signed up many Fortune 500 companies in 90 days
“We've succeeded at that considering that, you know, we've signed up Many of the fortune 500 in the last last 90 days.”
Mehta: 270 billion customer support calls were made globally in 2015
“Last year there were about two hundred and seventy billion customer service phone calls made.”
Mehta: 85% of support callers are put on hold, 67% hang up
“85% of customers were put on hold, 67% hung up, and 48% fell unhelped.”
Sony Pictures logged 860 automated conversation hours using msg.ai for Goosebumps
“Sony Pictures used our technology for a hundred million dollar movie called Goosebumps, and there were no people behind that messaging ID. And that, that AI that they created had 860 hours of conversation with consumers.”
Mehta: Consumers apologized to msg.ai chatbot during Sony Pictures campaign
“Even with Sony Pictures, some of the conversations were so Personal at a consumer level, you know it's an interesting incident. There was there was some consumers that would use bad words or the AI would block them. They would come back and say, Hey I'm sorry.…”