Aaron Lee
Co-Founder and CEO, Smith.ai. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Holding a Ph.D. in computer science from Princeton University, Lee was a founding engineer for Google Video who led YouTube monetization before co-founding Redbeacon. In 2015, he co-founded Smith.ai, an AI- and human-assisted customer engagement platform.
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16statements
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Everything Aaron Lee said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Lee: Private Business Calls Create A Data Moat Against Public LLMs
“ChatGPT, they're using all the public data, public information, but there's so much information that is not public, like all the claws in the chest for the company and for the businesses, they're not. So we have all the advantage.”
Lee: Today's AI startups are unproven UI wrappers lacking revenue
“If you look at all the AI companies today, they have a nice, I call the UI wrapper on top of AI or chat GPT, but the revenue is very lacking. It's unproven.”
Lee: Smith.ai crossed $20M ARR run rate
“We are doing, I think like a few months ago, we crossed twenty million dollar annual rate.”
Aaron Lee: All 600 Smith.ai employees and agents are in North America
“They're all in North America.”
Lee: Smith.ai raised on a SAFE cap near $100M
“Oh, it's much higher than that. I think it's higher than that. It was like close to more like a hundred.”
Lee: Red Beacon Surpassed $10M Revenue Before Home Depot Acquisition
“Yeah, I think it was some, somewhere like 10 plus around time, but”
Aaron Lee: Smith.ai founders invested hundreds of thousands of personal capital
“Oh, hundreds of thousands of dollars. Yeah. Yeah. It's not, not small amount. It's significant.”
Lee: Average Smith.ai customer pays close to $1,000 per month
“So it's around like I would say close to a thousand dollars. Like, of course we have like a smaller business that pay a few hundred dollars. We have bigger businesses that pay like close to 10,000 dollars per month.”
Lee: Smith.ai could reach 5,000 to 6,000 customers by year-end
“Oh, I think we can actually get to about like, if we are lucky, we probably can get a five to 6000.”
Aaron Lee: Smith.ai employs over 600 people across headquarters and agents
“So the team that we have about total, I would say their headquarter plus agents about more than 600 people.”
Lee: Smith.ai has raised close to $13M total
“I think together, like we raised, like with us, angel investors and the safe note, I think I was close to 13, one, three.”
Aaron Lee: Google grew from 2,000 to 20,000 employees between 2004 and 2008
“When I joined, like Google had 2000 employees. When I left, it was 20,000, like 10 X.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Aaron's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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