Andrew Hsu

14 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 11, 2025 by Andrew Hsu · across every show →

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Jul 11, 2025 positive

Disclosure

Hsu: Speak runs agentic LLM pipeline to generate curricula and lessons

“We have a tutor agent, we have a curriculum writing agent, we have a giant LM based pipeline that creates curriculum, scaffolds it in the right way, writes the lessons themselves.”

Andrew Hsu Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 30:08 Personalized AI Language Education — with Andrew Hsu, Speak

Jul 11, 2025 neutral

Opinion

Hsu: Real-World Inertia Leaves AI's Daily Impact Outside Bay Area Near Zero

“And I think if you, like, go to another state outside of the Bay Area, probably even in California, outside of the Bay Area, and then you ask somebody how much their life has materially changed, it's, like, pretty close to zero. Real-world inertia is enormous.…”

Andrew Hsu Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 1:02:23 Personalized AI Language Education — with Andrew Hsu, Speak

Jul 11, 2025

Disclosure

Speak Building 'Speak Score' Aggregating Fluency Across Knowledge Graphs

“There are aspects of it that are live and it's a very sort of multidimensional system where we think of it as there are many aspects of fluency, right? There's many sub scores and we have a few of them that are currently live and we're actively developing othe…”

Andrew Hsu Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 31:40 Personalized AI Language Education — with Andrew Hsu, Speak

Jul 11, 2025 positive

Insight

Hsu: Dropping a free tier sidesteps user motivation problems

“We also pretty critically, I think, abandoned the free version and just went straight premium. And we kind of sidestepped the motivation question that way, because we knew that there were a ton of users that really wanted to learn English and were already real…”

Andrew Hsu Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 12:48 Personalized AI Language Education — with Andrew Hsu, Speak

Jul 11, 2025 positive

Disclosure

Hsu: Speak mandates AI coding tools as default engineering workflow

“We try to set a culture in the engineering team where usage of these tools as much as possible and as a default path is the expectation. And in hiring We are now explicitly asking about this a lot, thinking about what are the types of people that are going to …”

Andrew Hsu Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 52:53 Personalized AI Language Education — with Andrew Hsu, Speak

Jul 11, 2025

Insight

Hsu: Spontaneous communication ability is almost fully orthogonal to pronunciation

“Communication and your ability to speak spontaneously and get us on a concept across, an idea across, is almost fully orthogonal to pronunciation. You can be really bad at pronunciation, but still communicate effectively.”

Andrew Hsu Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 37:50 Personalized AI Language Education — with Andrew Hsu, Speak

Jul 11, 2025 bullish

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Hsu: Whisper outperformed human listeners on accented Korean English clips

“There were four of us in the room, we all closed our eyes, and none of us had any idea, and the model got it right. So, I mean, superhuman.”

Andrew Hsu Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 24:23 Personalized AI Language Education — with Andrew Hsu, Speak

Jul 11, 2025

Insight

Hsu: Language learners face high psychological barrier practicing in front of humans

“It turns out there's like a really key psychological barrier there where people are just not willing to do this in front of a human, even if it's a human that is a teacher that you're paying, right?”

Andrew Hsu Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 38:25 Personalized AI Language Education — with Andrew Hsu, Speak

Jul 11, 2025

Insight

Hsu: Learning app users suffer decision fatigue and need guided tracks

“We realized people don't want to choose. They're already using some of their motivation on a daily basis just to open the app. They don't want to make another choice after that, right? Just tell me what to do, right? Like, you know, give me a big button and th…”

Andrew Hsu Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 12:31 Personalized AI Language Education — with Andrew Hsu, Speak

Jul 11, 2025 negative

What-if

Hsu: If building Speak again, he probably wouldn't build remote hub in Slovenia

“So it worked out, but if I had to do it over again, I probably wouldn't do it.”

Andrew Hsu Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 23:26 Personalized AI Language Education — with Andrew Hsu, Speak

Jul 11, 2025 neutral

Opinion

Hsu: Duolingo and Gen 2 language apps are comparable to mobile games

“Gen two was basically mobile. So you have these very casual, massively popular mobile apps like Duolingo that I think the comp there is probably closer to a mobile game, something that feels productive, something that's very engaging, very gamified.”

Andrew Hsu Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 10:38 Personalized AI Language Education — with Andrew Hsu, Speak

Jul 11, 2025

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Hsu: Speak Has Never Pivoted Since Inception

“We actually like never pivoted.”

Andrew Hsu Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 3:55 Personalized AI Language Education — with Andrew Hsu, Speak

Jul 11, 2025

Insight

Hsu: The Frontier of Language Fluency Is Highly Jagged Across Contexts

“You might be really good at that, but be completely unable to, like, talk about your family, right? So the frontier of fluency is very jagged, but”

Andrew Hsu Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 30:58 Personalized AI Language Education — with Andrew Hsu, Speak

Jul 11, 2025 bullish

Opinion

Hsu: 80% to 90% of Tech for Superhuman AI Tutors Exists

“It was that as speech models and language models become superhuman, that would let us create an AI language tutor that would help you become fluent faster than any human could. And I think we're like 80 to 90% of the tech is here now.”

Andrew Hsu Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 4:18 Personalized AI Language Education — with Andrew Hsu, Speak

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