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Keith Smith

Founder & CEO, GoodStream · 1 appearance on the record.

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founderexecutiveinvestor@chiefdoorman ↗LinkedIn ↗goodstream.com ↗

Keith Smith is an entrepreneur known for founding companies including BigDoor, Payability, and MeForYou. He currently leads GoodStream, an AI-first platform designed to automate and structure portfolio data for private capital managers.

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1 prediction · 2 assertions · 1 opinion · 5 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

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Prediction Held up
Smith: Synchronous audio and video for celebrity AI clones is coming soon
“Today it is Techspace Chat. But in the very near future, it'll be full video with full audio and synchronous and that fundamentally changes the psychological kind of interaction that starts happening there because you know you're interacting with a virtual bei…”
Keith Smith Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 17:11 What Founding 5 Companies Took From My Kids That I Can't Get Back

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Insight
Smith: Creator startups treating creators as customers will ultimately underperform
“I think the companies that have not done very well is those that look at creators as a customer base.”
Keith Smith Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 10:11 What Founding 5 Companies Took From My Kids That I Can't Get Back
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Smith: Influencers drive 60 percent of global buying decisions today
“Influencers influence about 60% of the buying decisions in the world these days.”
Keith Smith Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 11:47 What Founding 5 Companies Took From My Kids That I Can't Get Back
Insight
Smith: Fans want relationships with curated public personas, not private identities
“What we figured out quickly was that The relationship that we as fans want with a celebrity or with a creator is actually really with the public persona that we see of this particular creator, creator. And the creators confirmed that for us as well. They said,…”
Keith Smith Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 19:05 What Founding 5 Companies Took From My Kids That I Can't Get Back
Opinion
Smith: Base ChatGPT speaks like a socially unaware first-year analyst
“ChatGPT is very much like you know, talking to a socially unaware First year analyst who just kind of answers questions and is done. And it's not a very entertaining and interesting dialogue.”
Keith Smith Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 34:18 What Founding 5 Companies Took From My Kids That I Can't Get Back
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Smith: 50 million of the 200 million global creators work full-time
“There's two hundred million creators worldwide, there's fifty million that are full-time creators.”
Keith Smith Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 10:18 What Founding 5 Companies Took From My Kids That I Can't Get Back
Prediction Held up
Smith: Synchronous audio and video for celebrity AI clones is coming soon
“Today it is Techspace Chat. But in the very near future, it'll be full video with full audio and synchronous and that fundamentally changes the psychological kind of interaction that starts happening there because you know you're interacting with a virtual bei…”
Keith Smith Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 17:11 What Founding 5 Companies Took From My Kids That I Can't Get Back
Insight
Smith: ChatGPT's lack of long-term memory prevents genuine parasocial relationships
“That is, it is impossible to build a relationship on top of that, and that is a little bit like what it is to chat, talk with ChatGPT, at least today, and a lot of the other AIs. They just don't have good long-term memory built in”
Keith Smith Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 27:47 What Founding 5 Companies Took From My Kids That I Can't Get Back
Insight
Smith: AI clones struggle because most creators lack conversational training data
“In most cases with training data is it doesn't have access to a lot of conversational data. That is a little bit different with interviewers that, that have a lot of like podcasts and YouTube. In that case, there's a lot of training data where there's interact…”
Keith Smith Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 32:54 What Founding 5 Companies Took From My Kids That I Can't Get Back
Disclosure
Smith: MeForYou silos user memory strictly within individual AI clone conversations
“As it stands now, that is a siloed a walled garden within that particular conversation that you've had with that particular AI. So what you tell them is what is, is what they know about you.”
Keith Smith Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 35:14 What Founding 5 Companies Took From My Kids That I Can't Get Back
Insight
Smith: AI models are better at catching rule violations than obeying constraints
“One of the things that's interesting about AI is that it is better as a tattletale than it is at obeying, and so you can say, here's the rules, only do this, and then it spits back something that doesn't obey the rules, and you say, did that obey the rules, an…”
Keith Smith Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 37:06 What Founding 5 Companies Took From My Kids That I Can't Get Back
Disclosure
MeForYou splits 50% of net revenue with creator partners
“We then give a strong financial incentive to our creator partners that we work with because we share 50% of our net revenue back with them.”
Keith Smith Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 12:52 What Founding 5 Companies Took From My Kids That I Can't Get Back

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
What Founding 5 Companies Took From My Kids That I Can't Get Back Jan 2, 2024 27m
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