LiveKit

includes LiveKit Cloud

9 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 23, 2026 by Russ d’Sa · said 33 times in 2 episodes since 2026 · across every show →

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Feb 23, 2026
Assertion Supported
d'Sa: Roughly 35% of US 911 calls route through LiveKit
“When you call nine-one-one for about 35 or so percent of the calls, that's actually going through LiveKit infrastructure,”
Russ d’Sa Feb 23, 2026 ▶ 31:25 His startup powers OpenAI's Voice Mode. Last month, they became a unicorn. | Russ d’Sa, Co-Founde... · PMF Show
Feb 23, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
d'Sa: LiveKit reached $1 million run rate in August 2023
“We'd done about, I think at that time, August 23 is when we hit a million in, in run rate.”
Russ d’Sa Feb 23, 2026 ▶ 37:08 His startup powers OpenAI's Voice Mode. Last month, they became a unicorn. | Russ d’Sa, Co-Founde... · PMF Show
Feb 23, 2026 bullish
Opinion
d'Sa: B2B telephony AI market is several times larger than ChatGPT Voice
“If you take all of those different pockets of use cases together, It's like several, several times bigger than like chat GPT voice mode. So yeah, open AI is like a big customer and like has a lot of traffic, but at the same time, like the pie is a lot bigger t…”
Russ d’Sa Feb 23, 2026 ▶ 50:37 His startup powers OpenAI's Voice Mode. Last month, they became a unicorn. | Russ d’Sa, Co-Founde... · PMF Show
Feb 23, 2026
Disclosure
d'Sa: Public company tried acquiring LiveKit on its open-source release day
“Like the day that we put out the first release in open source, it wasn't a company. It was just me, DZ and our kind of who is now our first employee at the time, just, you know, a contributor that we knew from Evie, actually one of our old Evie employees. It w…”
Russ d’Sa Feb 23, 2026 ▶ 26:53 His startup powers OpenAI's Voice Mode. Last month, they became a unicorn. | Russ d’Sa, Co-Founde... · PMF Show
Feb 23, 2026 bullish
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
d'Sa: LiveKit hit GitHub's top 10 repos within two weeks of launch
“And so then like in the first two weeks, it was like trending across all of GitHub top 10 repo across every language and Spotify and Oracle and Reddit and X and these like large companies were starting to deploy it and start the repo.”
Russ d’Sa Feb 23, 2026 ▶ 27:16 His startup powers OpenAI's Voice Mode. Last month, they became a unicorn. | Russ d’Sa, Co-Founde... · PMF Show
Feb 23, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
d’Sa: Most Voice AI Platforms Like Vapi Run on LiveKit
“So VAPI and like land and retail and some of these, most of them actually are built on top of LiveKit. And so they use our infrastructure for all of the transport.”
Russ d’Sa Feb 23, 2026 ▶ 46:12 His startup powers OpenAI's Voice Mode. Last month, they became a unicorn. | Russ d’Sa, Co-Founde... · PMF Show
Feb 23, 2026
Disclosure
d'Sa: LiveKit powers crypto platform pump.fun
“We power pump dot fun”
Russ d’Sa Feb 23, 2026 ▶ 35:02 His startup powers OpenAI's Voice Mode. Last month, they became a unicorn. | Russ d’Sa, Co-Founde... · PMF Show
Feb 23, 2026 neutral
Insight
d’Sa: Voice AI Startups Must Eventually Move From Low-Code to Code
“But my personal opinion is that eventually you need to go to code. Eventually, if you have like 10 people that all come into a low code solution and through clicking some buttons, And getting a system prompt together, have like a viable product. Eventually tho…”
Russ d’Sa Feb 23, 2026 ▶ 47:12 His startup powers OpenAI's Voice Mode. Last month, they became a unicorn. | Russ d’Sa, Co-Founde... · PMF Show
Feb 23, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
d'Sa confirms LiveKit raised $45 million Series B
“Raised 45 male, raising two girls at the same time.”
Russ d’Sa Feb 23, 2026 ▶ 2:17 His startup powers OpenAI's Voice Mode. Last month, they became a unicorn. | Russ d’Sa, Co-Founde... · PMF Show
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