Rogenmoser: Jasper wouldn't exist without spotting GPT-3 demos on Twitter
Dave Rogenmoser · Master the Art of AI-first Products with Dave Rogenmoser's Winning Formula · Mar 30, 2023 · at 4:09
Dave Rogenmoser, co-founder and CEO of Jasper AI, discusses the role serendipitous social media browsing played in discovering GPT-3 before launching Jasper.
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“If I hadn't been on Twitter six months before we launched Jasper, I wouldn't have seen GPT three come out. I wouldn't have seen some of the cool demos and I wouldn't have thought, well, I think we could do that for marketing content.”
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