Amy

person on 15 shows · 8 statements across 5 episodes · said 118 times in 32 episodes since 2014

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STARTUP IDEAS Assertion Open · timeframe Nov 2025
Farroki: Polishing animations took app demo from 7 likes to 400K views
“This one had, like, a thousand plus likes on it, like, almost, I think three, 400,000 views. This one had, like, seven likes on it. It's the same exact thing that I tweeted the day before. Same concept. Like, you know, you just type in like Apple notes, you se…”
Chris Farroki Nov 24, 2025 ▶ 7:16 How I Design Apps 10x Better (Free Course)
STARTUP IDEAS Disclosure
Farroki: Amy interactive prototype was entirely vibe-coded without manual code
“And again, just all vibe coded, not a single line of code was written for this, but I think this is a prime example to show what happens when you go an extra mile with the animations and interactions.”
Chris Farroki Nov 24, 2025 ▶ 8:26 How I Design Apps 10x Better (Free Course)
Packer: Sleep-time compute cannot be brute-forced due to diminishing returns
“There's definitely the aspect of, there's diminishing returns. So depending on what you're trying to do, you know, you will kind of reach a limit of how much you can re-represent the context. I think in this case, you know, with these like GSM, AK style questi…”
Charles Packer Apr 21, 2025 ▶ 14:44 Sleep-Time Compute — Letta AI (Charles Packer, Charlie Snell, Kevin Lin)
Latka loses respect for CEOs who use x.ai's scheduling bot Amy
“I hate that damn thing. I, when CEO, when I'm trying to schedule someone for my podcast, and they say, meet Amy, and then I very quickly realize Amy's a bot who's not actually helping me find a freaking time. I get so pissed, and I lose complete respect for th…”
Nathan Latka Oct 3, 2017 ▶ 17:20 801: The $60M King of Ticket Sales
20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated
x.ai's AI assistant Amy receives one date request per month
“Their female persona Amy is so lifelike that users have asked her on a date at a rate of one request per month.”
Harry Stebbings Mar 3, 2017 ▶ 0:49 20VC: Why Product Market Fit Is Like Porn, How The Entrance of Facebook and Google Into Enterprise Software Effects Traditional Enterprise Companies & The Future Pricing Model For The Enterprise with Dennis Mortensen, Founder @ X.ai
20VC Disclosure
Netflix and Amazon employees adopted x.ai without any sales contact.
“On the thousands and thousands of people that have adopted the single-use case version of Amy, I never talked to the New York Times, or Netflix, or Amazon, or Salesforce, but those companies, they just have employees in pain, and since there's no integration, …”
Dennis Mortensen Mar 3, 2017 ▶ 17:50 20VC: Why Product Market Fit Is Like Porn, How The Entrance of Facebook and Google Into Enterprise Software Effects Traditional Enterprise Companies & The Future Pricing Model For The Enterprise with Dennis Mortensen, Founder @ X.ai
MAD Disclosure
Mortensen: x.ai features no user interface beyond email CC
“So there is no interface. There is no dropdown box. There is no set of possible times which you can click on. There's only Amy, which exists in dialogue as a CC.”
Dennis Mortensen Nov 20, 2014 ▶ 3:17 Dennis Mortensen and Marcos Jimenez, x.ai // Your AI-powered Virtual Assistant
MAD Disclosure
Jimenez: x.ai's Amy schedules around learned preferences, not just open slots
“Amy's not just filling up empty buckets in your calendar. She's filling up empty buckets In order to try to reproduce what she deduces are your preferences.”
Marcos Jimenez Nov 20, 2014 ▶ 18:18 Dennis Mortensen and Marcos Jimenez, x.ai // Your AI-powered Virtual Assistant

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