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Vapi Encountered 70% Hallucination Rates Using GPT-3.5 for Early Voice Agents
“We would see, like, 70% hallucination rates, like, 3.5 at the time”
Jordan Dearsley Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 17:23 His AI Voice Startup grew to $10M ARR in 1 Year—after 3 Years Stuck at $500K | Jordan Dearsley, F... · PMF Show
PRODUCT MARKET FIT Assertion Contradicted
Dearsley: No Speech-to-Speech Models Existed in October 2023
“There was not a single like speech to speech model in existence at the time. And there was no research that was far along anything like that.”
Jordan Dearsley Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 13:02 His AI Voice Startup grew to $10M ARR in 1 Year—after 3 Years Stuck at $500K | Jordan Dearsley, F... · PMF Show
PRODUCT MARKET FIT Assertion Not checkable as stated
Vapi Targets Lower-Level Developer Control Compared to ElevenLabs' Abstracted Platform
“Now they have, like, a separate voice agent, like, platform that they've started to release, but it's a bit more abstracted. Whereas we're much more like low level, we expose all the raw pieces. So developers can like build like entire products on top of it.”
Jordan Dearsley Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 15:56 His AI Voice Startup grew to $10M ARR in 1 Year—after 3 Years Stuck at $500K | Jordan Dearsley, F... · PMF Show
PRODUCT MARKET FIT Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dearsley: Only GPT-3.5 and Poor TTS Models Achieved Sub-2s Latency
“The only models that could run at real time speed, like we're talking like under two seconds of, you know, to response time were like GPT, 3.5. Or like really shitty text-to-speech models.”
Jordan Dearsley Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 16:44 His AI Voice Startup grew to $10M ARR in 1 Year—after 3 Years Stuck at $500K | Jordan Dearsley, F... · PMF Show
PRODUCT MARKET FIT Prediction Not checkable as stated
Dearsley: Google and Amazon will build enterprise voice agent platforms
“And I'm sure Apple and Google, or sorry, Google and Amazon are gonna work on some very large enterprise facing versions of what we have.”
Jordan Dearsley Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 33:57 His AI Voice Startup grew to $10M ARR in 1 Year—after 3 Years Stuck at $500K | Jordan Dearsley, F... · PMF Show
PRODUCT MARKET FIT Assertion Not checkable as stated
Vapi Scaled to $4M ARR in Six Months via Organic Self-Serve Growth
“Within six months, we were at about, like, four million in, in revenue annually recurring. Something, like, very small, small section of it was enterprise, now that's larger, but most of it was just, like, self-serve organic. We did zero ads. We did zero, like…”
Jordan Dearsley Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 38:41 His AI Voice Startup grew to $10M ARR in 1 Year—after 3 Years Stuck at $500K | Jordan Dearsley, F... · PMF Show
PRODUCT MARKET FIT Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dearsley: Vapi processed approximately 32,000 calls in January 2024
“In like January, 20, 24, we had like 32,000 calls on the platform. If I even zoom back further than that, and that's all just sales roleplay training, basically.”
Jordan Dearsley Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 23:01 His AI Voice Startup grew to $10M ARR in 1 Year—after 3 Years Stuck at $500K | Jordan Dearsley, F... · PMF Show
PRODUCT MARKET FIT Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dearsley: Vapi call volume tripled to 164,000 after March 2024 Product Hunt launch
“Then we started to get some other folks like trickling in and we kind of hit like 52 K calls. We're looking at February. March was like 164,000 calls. We launched on product. So that was the first time, like, we ever launched publicly, and so immediately we ju…”
Jordan Dearsley Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 23:19 His AI Voice Startup grew to $10M ARR in 1 Year—after 3 Years Stuck at $500K | Jordan Dearsley, F... · PMF Show
PRODUCT MARKET FIT Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dearsley: Early quick-join meeting button achieved 90% retention
“And then we built this like button to join me in these really quickly. And it hadn't like 90% retention and it just like started growing and people just loved it.”
Jordan Dearsley Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 6:10 His AI Voice Startup grew to $10M ARR in 1 Year—after 3 Years Stuck at $500K | Jordan Dearsley, F... · PMF Show
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