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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where TikTok comes up
When AI Agents Run Businesses — Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund of Andon Labs
- ▶ 35:09 unnamed speaker AI influencers are a thing and people are farming them and you know, you should, at this point, I see most of TikTok is dead. 2 times in the scene
Inside xAI: Building Grok Imagine in 3 Months, Videogen vs World Models, and Video Agents— Ethan He
⚡️ Competing with ChatGPT and Sierra, building a $10M ARR company — Yasser Elsaid, Founder, Chatbase
- ▶ 7:54 unnamed speaker So then they started investing a lot in TikTok and Instagram and all those things, but you didn't need to because you just.
- ▶ 27:44 Yasser Elsaid But I will still find people like in B to B trying so hard to make UGC on TikTok work, but
Cursor's Third Era: Cloud Agents — ft. Sam Whitmore, Jonas Nelle, Cursor
- ▶ 10:28 unnamed speaker Kind of TikTok. 2 times in the scene
Why Every Agent Needs a Box — Aaron Levie, Box
- ▶ 1:04:48 Aaron Levie yeah, I, I definitely don't want to, what I don't want to do is just be like in this, like TikTok feed of just films.
⚡️ Polsia: Solo Founder Tiny Team from 0 to 1m ARR in 1 month & the future of Self-Running Companies
- ▶ 19:43 unnamed speaker It's like right now it's just UGC content for meta, but it should allow you to manage Google, uh, Google ads, TikTok ads, and every other network that exists, and it should be able to manage your spend.
Claude Code for Finance + The Global Memory Shortage: Doug O'Laughlin, SemiAnalysis
- ▶ 12:08 Doug O'Laughlin I remember loving and being obsessed with TikTok in like 20, uh, 2019.
- ▶ 55:40 Doug O'Laughlin Have you ever been at, like, a bar when they play, like, these, like, weird, like, there'll be, like, like, TikTok videos for lack of whatever, and you just watch. 2 times in the scene
The Future of Email: Superhuman CTO on Your Inbox As the Real AI Agent (Not ChatGPT) — Loïc Houssier
- ▶ 0:10 Loïc Houssier Now, like, all the content can be stored in YouTube, in TikTok, or whatever. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:26 Loïc Houssier Like TikTok, like whatever, like Instagram, like they communicate over Instagram. 3 times in the scene
The AI Agenda: GPT5 leaks and the business of AI News — Steph Palazzolo, The Information
- ▶ 25:41 Shawn Wang They scroll TikTok for a living. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:24 Shawn Wang and, you know, my positive spin on this is that, you know, we, we used to freak out about kids wanting to grow up to be YouTube stars and TikTok stars.
AI Video Is Eating The World — Olivia and Justine Moore, a16z
- ▶ 2:24 Olivia Moore I would say we've seen the same thing happen on, I mean, if you've been on TikTok or Reels or YouTube Shorts recently, in the past week, probably 90% of your feed is AI generated video. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:42 Justine Moore Um, AI video, chat GPT, Singularity, like, basically all of the AI oriented, um, the AI video one was, like, the one for a while, and then people like me would take the best content from there and bring it to Twitter, and then, like, the… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:10 Justine Moore I would say that we, like, I generate dozens of VO three videos every day and just don't post most of them on, like, TikTok or Instagram, so I've definitely experimented with the vlog format, and it's, like, pretty easy to do. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:14 Justine Moore But, like, I'm sure given the popularity of Italian brain rot on, on Instagram and TikTok, like, you can totally imagine someone like Netflix wanting to buy and reuse or license those characters for their own content. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:24 unnamed speaker Well, I mean, like, this is the most uncool I've ever felt, um, because I, I, like, I clearly don't scroll to TikTok and Instagram, but like. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:02 Justine Moore Like, one of the big trends for VO three on TikTok right now is AI clapbacks. 3 times in the scene
Voice AI Masterclass — Kwindla Hultman Kramer and swyx
- ▶ 6:27 Kwindla Hultman Kramer Well, I think we're going to have friends that are video in all our group chats, and the next TikTok is going to be not just hyper-personalized recorded content, but hyper-personalized interactive content.
Tiny Teams: $6m ARR, 5m users with 4 employees — Sid Bendre, Oleve (Quizard AI/Unstuck AI)
- ▶ 1:01 Sid Bendre Um, and we launched this with a TikTok that went viral overnight.
- ▶ 12:01 unnamed speaker So, and then, um, on the distribution side, uh, mostly TikTok.
- ▶ 12:06 Sid Bendre TikTok and Instagram mostly are bread and butter. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:05 unnamed speaker It's kind of like- You can't always be on top of TikTok. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:05 Sid Bendre And so basically like right now we have, we literally pay like our, like we literally have our like head of marketing who literally like is literally 25 hours a day on TikTok, you know, scrolling, like literally like an ungodly amount. 2 times in the scene
The Rise and Fall of the Vector DB category: Jo Kristian Bergum (ex-Chief Scientist, Vespa)
- ▶ 12:10 Jo Kristian Bergum Embeddings, I think with embeddings and embedding based retrieval, because embedding based retrieval has been used for a long time in recommender systems, like large scale recommender systems, like, you know, TikTok or, or Yahoo News or… 2 times in the scene
Snipd: The AI Podcast App for Learning — with CEO Kevin Ben-Smith
- ▶ 6:38 Kevin Ben-Smith Um, and we did envision sort of like a, like a social TikTok platform where some people would listen to full episodes and they would snip certain, like the best parts of it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:39 Kevin Ben-Smith And, um, of course the question is, you know, like big platforms, like, I don't know, let's say, say TikTok, they do not have the incentive to offer that.
- ▶ 1:12:57 Shawn Wang I think when TikTok took this very seriously, they prioritize the creators of the content.
Bee AI: The Wearable Ambient Agent
- ▶ 3:24 unnamed speaker I had experience working with TikTok and video content.
Outlasting Noam Shazeer, Crowdsourcing Chai AI w/ 1.4m DAU — with William Beauchamp, Chai Research
- ▶ 16:44 William Beauchamp If I'm watching TikTok, just like swipe and swipe and swipe. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:10 William Beauchamp For comparison, let's say the average session length on TikTok is 70 minutes.
- ▶ 36:25 unnamed speaker Like ByteDance, as in TikTok US.
- ▶ 1:04:05 William Beauchamp Analog would be TikTok. 2 times in the scene
0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
- ▶ 59:57 Eric Simons This, this past, I mean, I, I think every week has been kind of a blowout week as far as I, I, is it TikTok? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:53 Eric Simons And she had an idea for this app called viralhooks.ai, which is basically, it's a tool that, uh, if you want to make viral TikToks and stuff, it's like, what's the hook of the video to make people watch.
How NotebookLM Was Made
- ▶ 48:31 Raiza Martin Like I, I watched this TikTok where this woman uploaded her diary from
Making Transformers Sing - with Mikey Shulman of Suno
- ▶ 1:20 Alessio Fanelli Are you one of those people that, uh, you know, they do the tech talks. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:28 Mikey Shulman And, um, you know, honestly, I think, uh, there's a lot of, it's timely right now, you know, I don't know if you guys have seen UMG and TikTok are butting heads a little bit,
Generating your AI Media Empire - with Youssef Rizk of Wondercraft.ai
- ▶ 13:52 Youssef Rizk Like, TikTok, give it to me in 30 seconds, or think why clips are taking over.