Guo: Creative AI startups are heavily driven by founder aesthetic taste
Sarah Guo · No Priors Ep. 72 | With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil · Jul 18, 2024 · at 28:15
Sarah Guo explains how founder taste directly dictates AI model training and aesthetic output on No Priors.
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“But in, in AI companies today, models are such a big piece of the product experience and that the. Thus the like model design. And I do mean that in the aesthetic sense of the term is quite important and often comes from the founder. And I think an example, a bunch of examples of that could be mid journey, Hey, Jen, ideogram, Suno, UDO, Pika, like these products, especially in the creative field, they really reflect like the type of output that the founders want, the type of data they're choosing. And I think some of the companies end up being more, Founder driven in terms of product and model sense than maybe traditional software company.”
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