Shared Studios

“I think it builds a sense of trust and camaraderie that's like worth a lot more than the inefficiency lost for three or six months while you're finding out the right pairing.”

“One of our early portals was in Washington, D.C., and we had a Cuban woman who had not been back to Havana in, you know, 60 years interact with a young man who grew up on the same street as she did and was currently in Havana. We had a portal in Cuba at the ti…”

“And so we've invested pretty heavily in the computers we install with each of our clients, because we'd like it to be strong enough in a year or two to run the latest algorithms to do that.”

“When people come in, they think the tech is what's going to appeal to them, but what actually gets them moved is the fact that they spent 30 minutes talking to someone on the other side of the world in the kind of conversation they just never otherwise would h…”

“The buyers now are these kind of global studies or these deans or provosts of university institutions. But it took us a long time going through every other conceivable permutation to realize that that's probably our most easy, like, reliably addressable buyer.…”

“You can now with a couple second delay, make that four K using AI. You can really resolve the upscale, the image quite effectively, but in real time where you really have minimal acceptance of latency, that's very tough.”

“I mean, with Shared Studios, we've always had translators at every portal. You can imagine how expensive that's been historically.”

“We started growing all over the world called the portals and got up to about 60 or 70 of these shipping containers, not always shipping containers, but all over the globe. And from refugee camps to art museums to universities.”

“We've now connected nearly a million people, and I would say one thing that we're really proud of is out of all of that, maybe there were, like, three or four unpleasant occasions, and usually that's because someone was very, very drunk, and they got let in, b…”