Rewind AI

“This is something I'm probably most embarrassed about in terms of our decisiveness. It's just, we don't have a super specific who you know, we have almost by constraints of the technology M one and M two users and app, you know, Apple or iPhone users.”

“In fact, we didn't, we had. 20 offers or more of a billion dollar valuation. We turned down.”

“Technically by Rahul's framework of, you know, it's greater than 40% of people, very disappointed if they can all use your product. Yeah, we exceed that threshold”

“When we do quarterly three sixties, which most startups don't do when we do them, the criteria we evaluate each other and I get evaluated on by my team is our cultural values. There's nothing else. There's no other thing that your performance it is. Do you liv…”

“Scribe was kind of an, and all kind of meeting bots are kind of nice to have. It's a vitamin, it's useful, you know, but like the idea that you could capture anything you've seen and never have to take notes again, that was a painkiller for some people.”

“Every engineer, when they start at Rewind, within 24 hours of starting, they ship to production.”

“Today we have 20 people and rewind we had 450 and I feel like with 20 people we're able to do more and execute faster and be More tightly aligned than and ship than we ever did at Optimizely.”

“You know, we ship on average, you know, every engineer ships code production every day on average.”

“That's why I announced and shared our investor deck unredacted. I didn't hide any numbers. You know, you can find it on Twitter, you know, seven minute pitch you know, millions of people have seen it.”

“The switching costs are very high. And we also have everything you've seen that are heard up until you start, since you use our rewind. So even if tomorrow, Some big tech company launches what we do. You know, we've got a lot of users who say, well, why'd I sw…”

“We capture everything your screen is showing. We compress it, you know, 3000 times smaller, so it stores, it can be stored locally. We do optical character recognition on every word that appears on your screen. And now, you know, we're doing transcription as w…”

“You know, for us, the test I always use is if we were subpoenaed by the government, would we hand over anything useful or meaningful? No, like we never want to be in a situation where We have data about anything you've done that then we could hand over and tha…”

“Three out of my team members thought this was the worst of the five strategies to pursue.”

“You never know what you're going to need later. That's the biggest downside to taking notes is like you need the foresight to know what is it the thing I might want later.”

“And it's so, you know, co occurred with Apple Silicon becoming really powerful and enabling this before Apple Silicon, you know, rewind couldn't exist.”

“They just passively capture everything in a privacy sensitive way. It's stored locally. We don't have access to it. Only you have access to it.”

“Rewind is a truly personalized AI. So it captures everything you see, say, and hear, stores it all locally on your devices.”

“We are hiring for hardware people so it's possible that down the line if we cannot, by the way, I'm very much a big fan of software. I don't know if you're if you've ever done anything hardware related, but software has many, many benefits of which I'm the big…”

“You've raised over thirty three million dollars, I believe at this point from great folks, Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, Sam Altman, and of course us here at First Round.”

“The data of the fact that we were introduced by Paul Graham in 2010, the data of the fact that he's an investor in our company and that, you know, he just launched a new feature. All of that is data that no large language model company or provider could offer.…”