Vikram Chalana

Co-Founder & CEO, Pictory · 1 appearance on the record.

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Vikram Chalana is the co-founder and CEO of Pictory, an AI-powered video creation platform. He previously co-founded enterprise data-management software company Winshuttle and has worked as a research scientist.

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Chalana: Technologists will develop solutions to identify deepfakes and misinformation

“The scientists and the technologists are coming up with great solutions to identify deep fake, identify You know, misinformation, things that are blatantly false. So I think we'll have, I'm hopeful, but that's the one thing I'm scared about, but I think we'll…”

Vikram Chalana Oct 24, 2023 ▶ 6:27 He Rode 3 AI Waves. One Thing Still Keeps Him Up at Night

Opinion

Chalana: Generative AI Is Near Peak Hype Before Trough of Disillusionment

“So I feel like we're kind of just at the peak of the hype, which is beyond that a little bit in generative AI where we still haven't seen the trough yet, and then we'll start seeing A lot more valuable things coming out of that.”

Vikram Chalana Oct 24, 2023 ▶ 15:38 He Rode 3 AI Waves. One Thing Still Keeps Him Up at Night

Insight

Chalana: Startup operators rarely scale from $1M to $100M revenue milestones

“People who are good at zero to one million may not be good at the one to ten million and people who are great at one to ten million won't get you from 10 to a hundred.”

Vikram Chalana Oct 24, 2023 ▶ 26:43 He Rode 3 AI Waves. One Thing Still Keeps Him Up at Night

Opinion

Chalana: Venture Capitalists Are Hype-Driven and Move in Herds

“One of the things I realize is they are very hype driven. They are very I wish people were more different. They are all kind of operating the same path.”

Vikram Chalana Oct 24, 2023 ▶ 30:17 He Rode 3 AI Waves. One Thing Still Keeps Him Up at Night

Opinion

Chalana: Non-Operator VCs Bring Valuable Sales and LP Networks

“I think we have there's room for both. And I, I've seen both kind of like operator VCs as well as VCs who are pure finance people as well as VCs who are amazing salespeople. And so they're able to make connections because again, they haven't, their sales have …”

Vikram Chalana Oct 24, 2023 ▶ 32:17 He Rode 3 AI Waves. One Thing Still Keeps Him Up at Night

Insight

Chalana: AI is 'assisted intelligence' meant to augment, not replace workers

“I think of AI as an assistant, assisted intelligence, not artificial or augmented intelligence. So I think of this as really helping people with productivity improve improvements and just taking some of the routine stuff out of your out of your plate. It's all…”

Vikram Chalana Oct 24, 2023 ▶ 2:22 He Rode 3 AI Waves. One Thing Still Keeps Him Up at Night

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Chalana: Future AI will combine big tech and open-source models

“I think it'll be a combination of both, just like it is today. It's, there's some companies who created these I mean, open AI created this with a lot of investment from Microsoft and all that stuff. But then Pretty soon, right after that, we had Facebook open …”

Vikram Chalana Oct 24, 2023 ▶ 10:39 He Rode 3 AI Waves. One Thing Still Keeps Him Up at Night

Insight

Chalana: Scaling Requires Painfully Tearing Down Early People and Systems

“The hardest part in scaling is think of your house. If you have a single story house, say a rambler, and you want to add a second story to it, you first have to Destroy the foundation. You have to create a new foundation before you can put the first story in t…”

Vikram Chalana Oct 24, 2023 ▶ 25:24 He Rode 3 AI Waves. One Thing Still Keeps Him Up at Night

Insight

Chalana: Building Startups Never Gets Easier on Repeat Attempts

“The second time would be easier and the third time would be even easier, but it's never that way. Every product is different. Every market is different. Every time in the industry is different.”

Vikram Chalana Oct 24, 2023 ▶ 27:17 He Rode 3 AI Waves. One Thing Still Keeps Him Up at Night

Insight

Chalana: Neural networks work well without needing an explicit explanation

“You didn't always have to have An explanation. You can have a black box that does certain things for you. You just provided input and output and it trains a model for you. That is it works really well.”

Vikram Chalana Oct 24, 2023 ▶ 5:15 He Rode 3 AI Waves. One Thing Still Keeps Him Up at Night

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
He Rode 3 AI Waves. One Thing Still Keeps Him Up at Night	Oct 24, 2023	19m

Vikram Chalana

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