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Prediction Open · timeframe Sep 2028
Siroker: Thousands of multi-billion-dollar vertical LLM application companies will emerge
“There's whole categories of companies that are going to be cat, you know, Category defining independent successful big public multi-billion dollar companies that are just applications of large language models in a specific domain for a specific user with a gre…”
Dan Siroker Sep 14, 2023 ▶ 42:55 AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI)
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Siroker predicts 50% of work will be fundamentally changed within 10 years
“I think a lot of jobs will be gone in 10 years, but they'll likely be replaced with new ones. I think that's probably an obvious Conclusion. I think on the order of probably 50% of work will go away. It would be fundamentally changed.”
Dan Siroker Sep 14, 2023 ▶ 47:07 AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI)
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Siroker: AGI will eventually perform half the work of human engineering teams
“Eventually, you know, I don't think it will necessarily replace engineers, but it'll certainly augment them. You'll have plenty of, you know, half the work that an engineering team does will be done by AGI, and half will be done by humans, and the human stuff …”
Dan Siroker Sep 14, 2023 ▶ 50:37 AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI)
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Siroker: Rewind stores data locally and Rewind has no access to it
“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.”
Dan Siroker Sep 14, 2023 ▶ 6:31 AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI)
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Siroker: Highly paid hourly knowledge work like legal tasks will likely disappear
“I do think things like white collar knowledge work that is high paid, lawyers being one of them, is probably a good area. I think anything where today people are paying a lot of money and people are being paid by the hour that a machine could do as better, in …”
Dan Siroker Sep 14, 2023 ▶ 49:41 AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI)
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Siroker: Rewind turned down 20 term sheets at a $1 billion valuation
“In fact, we didn't, we had. 20 offers or more of a billion dollar valuation. We turned down.”
Dan Siroker Sep 14, 2023 ▶ 56:50 AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI)
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Siroker: Rewind records user activity and stores all data locally
“Rewind is a truly personalized AI. So it captures everything you see, say, and hear, stores it all locally on your devices.”
Dan Siroker Sep 14, 2023 ▶ 4:16 AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI)
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Siroker: Rewind could not exist without Apple Silicon
“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.”
Dan Siroker Sep 14, 2023 ▶ 7:58 AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI)
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Siroker: Every Rewind engineer ships to production daily on average
“You know, we ship on average, you know, every engineer ships code production every day on average.”
Dan Siroker Sep 14, 2023 ▶ 17:18 AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI)
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Siroker: Every new Rewind engineer ships to production within 24 hours
“Every engineer, when they start at Rewind, within 24 hours of starting, they ship to production.”
Dan Siroker Sep 14, 2023 ▶ 17:44 AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI)
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Siroker: Rewind compresses screen recordings 3,000x for local storage and OCR
“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…”
Dan Siroker Sep 14, 2023 ▶ 9:08 AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI)
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Siroker: Rewind AI exceeds Rahul Vohra's 40% PMF survey benchmark
“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”
Dan Siroker Sep 14, 2023 ▶ 29:18 AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI)
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