Runway

“I think a common natural evolution of just the creative stack or the creative software solutions out there, they tend to be very specific to domains of content. So you have a tool that's specialized on, like, Image editing. And then you have a tool that specia…”

“We have around 35 different what we call AI power tools or magic tools, and those tools help serve a wide spectrum of creative tasks from traditional, like, editing editing videos or just audio or images has been a very expensive, time-consuming, and sophistic…”

“Half of our team have arts backgrounds, right? Which is very unique.”

“If we really want to make and move the standard of like creative tools in the ways and vision that we had to own our stack. And so we started building this research team, right?”

“And the first version of green screen was working at like four frames per second, right? It was like incredibly slow. It was like, Not as good as the one we have now, which is incredible, but it didn't matter. It was significantly better than anything else tha…”

“So we built, at the time was, as you're describing, like a model directory. It's an app store of models, right? You had, we had around, at some point, like, 400 different models. It was one of the first, like, I would say, model haps.”

“We certainly, for a long time, never had a, like a marketing team or a content strategy team. Like everything was just basically people making things and then sharing them online.”

“Until like two weeks ago, we didn't have a product person. Product was led by a combination of research design and engineering.”

“And when you look at the capabilities of some of these companies, when they're like translated into product building I mean, runway, you've all seen like the videos of runway. I think that's amazing. And I think they're going to be able to really challenge, ch…”

“We'll probably see much more of, ah, we're already seeing that, and I think we'll see more of where you already have a video that you're starting with, and then you're trying to edit it which has similarities too, but is a little bit different in my mind compa…”

“You could argue now that you have a handful of companies that are showing really amazing video generation capabilities, where it's not actually, like, a bunch of smaller players are step function behind there between runway and Pika. And even you know, if you …”