David Yang
Co-Founder and President, Newo.ai. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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David Yang, Ph.D., is a Silicon Valley-based AI entrepreneur best known for founding ABBYY, a pioneer in optical character recognition and content intelligence. He also founded workplace analytics platform Yva.ai and co-founded Newo.ai, a platform for deploying voice and text AI digital agents.
2shows
2appearances
28statements
4resolved
1supported
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25%fully supported
9said about them ↓ Everything David Yang said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Yang: Quantum computing and large models will achieve indistinguishable consciousness
“I truly believe that specifically the quantum computing based processors and big, large models. Will be indistinguishably conscious.”
Yang: Global frontline AI employee adoption will reach at least 300 million
“Overall we expect that on this planet Earth, we will have at least three hundred million non biological employees AI employees, AI receptionists basically almost every single business in the world which is big enough to have a website or big enough to have a b…”
Yang: Electrons possess quantum consciousness through wave function collapse
“In my personal, I'm a physicist by training, I believe the electron does have quantum consciousness. Just collapsing the wave and particle is actually is a expression of conscious decision, in my opinion.”
David Yang: Yva.ai can predict employee resignations before decisions are made
“This technology can predict employees' resignation even before employees actually decided to resign.”
Yang: Businesses lose 20% to 40% of revenue from unhandled inbound leads
“You are losing 20, 40% of your revenue right now.”
Yang: AI agents will cooperate with humans rather than replace them
“We understand AI agents will work actually along with humans. It will be a real cooperation which is happening actually already now. Human first, AI second, or AI first, human second, but it, in 99% of our cases, it's a cooperation.”
Yang: Consciousness requires sensory embodiment and resonance, not just a brain
“Now I understand completely clearly that consciousness is actually a product not on the of the brain, but also of our all senses, and sensors, and basically brain itself doesn't produce consciousness. Consciousness is a whole, you know, in and out resonance mo…”
Yang: Yva.ai is probably only HR tool integrating collaboration sources
“We are the only company in the world, probably, at least I don't know anyone else, who connects system to collaboration sources like Microsoft Teams, Select, Jira, GitHub, and other collaboration circles.”
David Yang: $3M SaaS revenue can fetch a $100M+ valuation
“Three million dollar revenue would give you in many cases even more than a hundred million dollar valuation.”
Yang: Businesses lose 40% of marketing spend from slow inbound response
“Every single business, small, large, medium, has this fundamental problem that business cannot react on inbound lead inquiries immediately, and as a result, 40% of our market investment is gone.”
Yang: SMBs gain $250k to $500k yearly per location using AI receptionists
“It's typically it's from 25 to 50,000 dollars per location per month. Average small, medium business is getting from our type of technologies. So if you multiply by 12 months, basically it's a quarter of a million dollars, up to half a million dollars per year…”
Yang: Businesses should automate pre-sale inquiries before customer support
“So focus first on pre-sale and do your post-sale consultations, customer success, customer support part afterwards.”
Yang: Hallucinations and booking errors occur even with the best LLMs
“Then you realize that in reality, five percent of your bookings actually happening on the at the wrong time. Or agent is saying, I sent an SMS, but never did. Or it asks you to provide an email You are not doing that just because you've forgotten. Agent never …”
Yang: Yelp stops routing leads if businesses do not reply within seconds
“If you are not answering Yelp inquiries in seconds, Yelp will depreciate next time, will not send you the lead, right?”
Yang: Toxic managers and resignation risk become acute at 100+ employees
“The actual pain points with informal leaders, Detached to you leaders, toxic managers, no resignation prediction, all that starts playing when you are a hundred or a thousand employees and above.”
Yang: Not all 496 Yva.ai customers at year-end 2020 were paying
“496 customers we had by the end of last year, not all of them were paying.”
Yang: 7% to 14% of new customers reach out during non-working hours
“So, 10% from seven to 14, actually, percent of all your new, new customers are coming from that non-working hours.”
Yang's earlier POS system currently runs 70,000 restaurants in 60 countries
“We decided to create our own POS system, which currently runs 70,000 restaurants in 60 countries.”
Yang notes his son's company Manychat serves 500,000 paying businesses
“My son older son, he is 35 now, he runs his own company and his company is quite high valuation. They serve 500,000 paying businesses. Manychat, many customer, many of that our readers will recognize this company, Manychat, they automate small businesses commu…”
Yang: Yva.ai clients expand company-wide within 3 to 6 months
“It's initially it kind of starts with hundreds to a thousand between 101,000 employees depending on the size of the organization. And in three, six months, they typically expand to sometimes to the whole population.”
David Yang: Over 200,000 employees are connected to Yva.ai
“It's right now it's already above 200,000 employees.”
David Yang: Yva.ai grew to 496 connected organizations in 2020
“We started actually we started sales end of 2019. We had only 49 paying customers in the beginning of last year, but we grew up we grew a hundred, excuse me, 10 times during last year and ended up with 496 No employer co connected organizations end of last yea…”
David Yang: Yva.ai raised $12M to date and is targeting $8M round
“So far we raised twelve million dollars and we will be raising eight million dollars in our current upcoming current round.”
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| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 INNOVATORS & INVESTORSLEDGER | Co-Founder and President, Newo.ai | 1 | 14 | 0% 0/2 | full record on Innovators & Investors → |
| TOP FOUNDERSLEDGER | Co-Founder and President, Newo.ai | 1 | 14 | 50% 1/2 | full record on Top Founders → |