You.com

“You go and you see, like, a company like u.com. Everyone's saying, wow, they got a valuation of a billion dollars. Annualized revenue of, like, oh, I'm gonna misquote this. It was, like, 12,000,020 million dollars. That's insanely small, man.”

“I think the biggest problem and biggest worry I have is that the entry level jobs right now are more and more automatable.”

“Another incredible company that I'm personally an investor in is you.com company that I invested myself. I named it myself. The founder is the former head of Salesforce research.”

“The round was led by Georgian and participation from NVIDIA, Salesforce Ventures, several of the existing investors, Softlink Ventures Asia came into”

“We're the first to bring LLMs into the search engine space and have some exciting patents some already given some pending on that”

“And when we do a lot of comparisons to the competition, usually the competition spends much more money on marketing and design and less on accuracy of the technology and accuracy of the answers and even the citations. A lot of folks just Fake their citations a…”

“We actually have several hedge funds and VC firms that are actual paying customers and get their whole company on it because they understand how powerful it is.”

“We have millions of users now, which is really exciting to make many millions of calls a day. What's actually even more exciting is that we get an aggregate of more queries through our APIs than we get on even our own and User and user facing u.com property.”

“We realized just like with rag where we had invented rag already, we're doing it at a web scale, but it wasn't yet a term.”

“This comes from a lot of organizations that bought 500 thousand plus seats for their product. And then after a few months, they look into how many users are actually using it. And it's like five, 10% in the company actually really use it. And so, you know, the…”

“Revenues doubling every quarter this year and it's becoming really meaningful now.”

“If you think about it from first principles, there is nothing you can do to be 10 X better.”

“We definitely get a lot more queries coming in through APIs than we do over like the normal consumer you.com product at this point.”

“It's generally a bad idea. I would discourage everyone from doing it. You need a lot more extra funding. You need a lot of very smart people who execute at extremely high levels. It makes everything harder.”

“That idea, we were the first to launch that early, 20, 23.”

“Before we launched, we worked with about a hundred companies helping them hire and scale their teams. So some of our sort of early customers pre-launch were companies like Inflection, Anthropic, Sandbox, U.com public companies out there as well as some early s…”

“We've also seen Bing and Google copy what we have launched late last year with you chat. They've copied us in the sense that we've launched it earlier and then they launched something very similar three to four months after.”

“Like new.com has, for instance, when you ask for a stock price, we don't just make up a bunch of numbers like an LL would. We actually show you a stock ticker and then you can see the actual price, right?”

“Kind of like imagine Wikipedia and everyone just keeps adding to Wikipedia and keeps making one dictionary better rather than everyone who wants to build a dictionary just starts their own dictionary company and then builds it from scratch. It just doesn't mak…”

“Like we update our model every other week.”

“Certainly like u.com we partner with different providers, but we also have our own LM running in production already.”

“Now we've launched this open platform last year, but to be honest, we haven't had A ton of really amazing apps being added to this platform because we just don't have hundreds of millions of users, and so if your, you know, app, like, lets you book a kayaking …”

“If we don't win and others win, then they'll be actually fully left out.”

“We just got deranked in all our sites from Google and saw like a drop right away.”

“Bing and Google copy, you know, what we have launched last late last year with you chat. And you know, they may have worked on it before, like some people, you know, claim, oh, for, I mean, we've also met the prompt engineering in 2018, but like, they've copie…”

“We've launched uChap and had the first LM with a search backend and citations and web links and so on in the search context which we launched last December before anyone else in the world”

“Then we were the first last year to bring chats into the search context also by having the first LN shipped to the world, as far as we know that connected and had a connection to the internet.”

“We figured that, I don't know, problem of hallucinations out before anyone else.”

“That was eventually copied, and Bing also has that feature now within Bing.com.”

“Truth is people don't like paying for things and they like it even less than advertisements.”

“Yeah, we actually did some studies and developers who use you.com are way more efficient than developers who use Google.”