Character
topic on 3 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes · said 4 times in 1 episodes since 2025
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Taylor: Almost all frontier AI model startups have already been consolidated
“All of the companies that were startups that tried to do this have already been consolidated or almost all of them inflection adapt character and others.”
Coogan: Character.ai will be built on third-party APIs
“Character will be built on top of other APIs.”
Jessica Lessin: Inflection and Character VCs were compensated via licensing fees
“The VCs invested in inflection. The VCs invested in character. The teams were acquihired and they got like a licensing fee to compensate, you know, for their money.”
Character VC uses Notion over Slack and email to reduce urgency
“At Character, at our VC fund, we Had a conversation and decided we're going to try to have our main communication happen in notion so that if we're talking about something, it's in a form, it becomes a document, and the expectation of how you react and respond…”