LiveKit

“Raised 45 male, raising two girls at the same time.”

“Like the day that we put out the first release in open source, it wasn't a company. It was just me, DZ and our kind of who is now our first employee at the time, just, you know, a contributor that we knew from Evie, actually one of our old Evie employees. It w…”

“And so then like in the first two weeks, it was like trending across all of GitHub top 10 repo across every language and Spotify and Oracle and Reddit and X and these like large companies were starting to deploy it and start the repo.”

“When you call nine-one-one for about 35 or so percent of the calls, that's actually going through LiveKit infrastructure,”

“We power pump dot fun”

“We'd done about, I think at that time, August 23 is when we hit a million in, in run rate.”

“So VAPI and like land and retail and some of these, most of them actually are built on top of LiveKit. And so they use our infrastructure for all of the transport.”

“But my personal opinion is that eventually you need to go to code. Eventually, if you have like 10 people that all come into a low code solution and through clicking some buttons, And getting a system prompt together, have like a viable product. Eventually tho…”

“If you take all of those different pockets of use cases together, It's like several, several times bigger than like chat GPT voice mode. So yeah, open AI is like a big customer and like has a lot of traffic, but at the same time, like the pie is a lot bigger t…”

“Fast forward, like, about a year and a half, two years, and, ah, we built a demo when ChatGPT first came out, ah, where you could talk to it instead of text with it using LiveKit's infrastructure, and a few months later, OpenAI ended up finding it, ah, wanted …”

“And so the technology that we use for live broadcasts of sports games is not true real time technology. Not everyone is synchronized in the same way that in 1969 when the, you know, the lunar landing everybody saw that at the same time because there's a server…”

“And so we closed a series B today. That's led by Altimeter Capital.”

“We built a demo when ChatGPT first came out, ah, where you could talk to it instead of text with it using LiveKit's infrastructure, and a few months later, OpenAI ended up finding it, ah, wanted to build a voice interface to ChatGPT, And we started to work pre…”

“Well, you know, it's one of those things that I think is funny, like, people talk about hallucinations as this bad thing but in a lot of ways for, like, kind of this speech-to-speech interaction model where you're talking to an AI, Hallucination is a feature.”

“Well, so we, like, I mean, we partner with, like, folks like Cerebris and Drock. And so we allow you to kind of plug in their models and plug in effectively their hardware accelerated inference. And so we're compatible with that world.”

“We're doing like thousands and thousands, many, several thousands of like signups to the cloud product or commercial product. And most of those, the vast majority are startups and growing companies. And out of those, probably around 75% or so, 80% of those sig…”

“And so we closed a series B today. That's led by Altimeter Capital.”