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Bakshi: Finding the right employee fit over months builds long-term trust
“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.”
Bakshi: Chasing tech efficiency erodes the serendipitous magic of human connection
“Now, of course, the technology is there. Of course, you could zoom someone. But it doesn't feel like you're in the same room with someone who grew up on your street and the serendipity and all of that gives it a kind of human magic that I think sometimes we lo…”
Bakshi: Human connection, not telepresence technology, drives user engagement
“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…”
Bakshi: Media covers fresh news angles, not repeated product launches
“The media wants a different angle onto the current story of the day. They'll do that again and again. What they won't do is sort of your one-time launch of this cool thing. Maybe they do that once, but they're not going to do that again and again.”
Bakshi: Zoom is terrible for long multi-hour collaborative meetings
“And so for longer meetings, like co-working sessions, or product sprints, or, you know, M&A discussions that are 6:07 hours long, Zoom is terrible.”
Bakshi: Shared Studios connected nearly 1 million people with four bad incidents
“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…”
Bakshi: University leaders are Shared Studios' most addressable and reliable buyers
“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.…”
Bakshi: Latency prevents real-time 4K AI video upscaling in telepresence
“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.”
Bakshi: Noro deploys high-end on-premise compute to handle future AI models
“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.”
Bakshi: Noro builds room-scale video environments to replace short-haul travel
“So Noro is is designed to reduce the need for short haul business travel. And the way we do that is through life size, full body, basically room scale video conferencing environments where if we're two people or groups of people can interact, like they're in t…”
Bakshi: Shared Studios deployed 60 to 70 Portals worldwide
“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.”
Bakshi: Shared Studios operated an early portal between DC and Havana
“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…”