BigStory Podcast

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  E1: Why we started, Future of SEO, Future of Programming & more 23.12.2023 51min

  (00:00) Why did we start the podcast? (04:45) Challenges of entrepreneurship in Armenia (13:20) Future of SEO and Google Search (31:17) Future of programming after LLMs (40:09) How will software products be built in the future Referenced in the show: https://www.bigstory.vc/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhCl-GeT4jw
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  E2: 2023 Learnings, Investments, Why Startup Ecosystem is Slow & more 29.12.2023 1godz 11min

  (00:00) Podcast publishing experience (02:55) Krisp 2023 learnings (13:20) Podcastle 2023 learnings (24:40) 10Web 2023 learnings (30:25) 2023 BigStory investments - Waveye, SynthFlow, Corpora, Cloudchipr, Starshunt (45:05) Deep dive into the slow growth of Armenia's Startup Ecosystem
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  E3 : VCs Explained, How They Make Money, State of Fundraising and more 06.01.2024 43min

  (00:00) Happy new year and intro to VCs (04:00) Why VCs have only 10% ROI even with unicorns (08:12) Ownership % taken by VCs (12:42) How VCs make money? (19:48) Can restaurants raise money from VCs ? (29:16) Current state of fundraising markets (37:45) Startups can raise $1M from Armenian VCs
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  E4: MS vs Apple, Tech Layoffs, Bitcoin ETF, Bardeen and more 13.01.2024 1godz 13min

  (00:00) Welcoming our guest, Artem, co-founder of Bardeen AI (02:18) Last week MS overtook Apple for a day (12:19) Tech layoffs continue in US (20:39) Bitcoin is finally available as ETF (28:12) Discussing Artem's startup - Bardeen (34:19) Rabbit r1 device launch, LAMs and Bardeen (59:57) Sharing our advice on how to become an entrepreneur
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  E5: Meta and AGI, High taxes in Armenia & Russians, ActiveLoop & YC 20.01.2024 1godz 10min

  (00:00) Welcoming our guest, Davit, co-founder of ActiveLoop (05:22) Meta pivots to AGI and buys 350,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs (25:44) Government is failing to keep Russian Tech Talent in Armenia (40:36) How Davit started ActiveLoop and what does it do (43:51) Davit’s journey with YC Combinator and how it helps founders Linkes: https://www.activeloop.ai/ https://www.ycombinator.com/ https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/18/24042354/mark-zuckerberg-meta-agi-reorg-interview https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/18/24043547/inside-meta-ai-reorg-mark-zuckerberg
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  E6: All-In-One vs Vertical, Time in US, ElevenLabs, Pitch Decks, more 27.01.2024 1godz 15min

  (1:26) Why it's important to spend time in US (10:52) MS CoPilot, All-in-One Software vs Vertical Software (27:32) ElevenLabs's $80M Series B round (41:35) Could Armenia become a leader in Voice & Video AI if it focused on it? (53:05) Going over and analyzing ElevenLabs's pitch deck
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  E7: Deep dive into Podcastle’s $13.5M Series A raise 03.02.2024 1godz

  (1:00) Intro and congrats to Podcastle! (4:20) How and when startup founders (and shareholders) get reach? (09:45) Deep dive (11:00) Small bridge round 1.5 year ago, ARR, Burn Multiple, Payback Period, NRR metrics (20:40) Building CRM of investors (25:35) 5 months of deck and dataroom building (29:58) Revenue and 8x growth rate (34:10) How do you plan to spend the funding? (36:50) It took 94 VCs to get first termsheet (44:10) Why FOMO is important for investors? (50:20) Why were so many VCs rejecting?
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  E8: How to get into tech, choose the right job, jobs during layoffs 11.02.2024 1godz 1min

  (1:14) Intro of Vardan from Picsart Academy, Davit is skiing (10:00) How newbies can get into tech (16:53) Levels of companies in tech (20:50) Why your potential matters when choosing your career (23:65) Can you get to tech without formal education (35:55) How to get a job during layoff times (40:48) Why layoffs are happening for the last 2 years (47:15) Why we don’t have strong founders and managers (51:40) Value-driven leadership in companies (54:05) Emotional maturity and feedback
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  E9: Vision Pro, Using English words, UATE, Why Launch Now and more 17.02.2024 1godz 12min

  (00:00) Intro, Skiing and business opportunities in Georgia (07:41) Should you build for Apple Vision Pro? (27:16) Why we are using English words in the podcast? (36:19) UATE deep dive by Arto (56:13) Deep dive into YC principle #1: Launch Now
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  E10: Google vs Open AI, Gemini, Sora, CodeSignal, Arm AI Startups 24.02.2024 1godz 2min

  (1:20) Intro and welcome back Artem (CoFounder of Bardeen AI) (4:20) Discussing Google Gemini 1.5 (07:10) Why context length matters (19:10) Will OpenAI business model survive the race? (28:46) Discussing OpenAI Sora and its impact on Video Industry (41:09) CodeSignal Cosmo, How AI disrupts education (49:44 )Armenian AI startups (56:50) Vertical AI companies
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  E11: Mistral AI, Tech in Europe vs US, Tech Salaries in Armenia and US 02.03.2024 55min

  (1:23) Intro, Skiing and MyLer (3:25) Mistral AI raised $415M round (9:58) Why Tech is slow in Europe, EU Tech vs US Tech (30:55) Armenia Tech Insights report (32:52) Tech Salaries in Armenia (47:50) Compensation in US Tech
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  E12: Nvidia growth, Spotify vs Apple, SpaceX launches, YC advise #2... 09.03.2024 59min

  (01:30) Why is Nvidia growing (12:00) Nvidia CUDA is their superpower (14:25) Buying GPUs is hard now (18:36) Training compute vs Inference compute (20:02) Spotify vs Apple legal case (25:34) Is Apple a monopoly? (32:45) SpaceX launches 3 rockets withing 20 hours (36:04) What SpaceTech problem can Armenian engineers excel at? (38:15) Deep dive into YC advice #2: Build something people want
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  E13: Raffi Lago’s $22M, AI engineers, Deep dive into SEO and more 16.03.2024 1godz 6min

  (00:00) Intro (01:38) Raffi’s Lago’s $22M raise (11:12) AI engineers (29:00) Spotify vs Apple update (33:00) Arto dives deep into SEO (54:34) Content Marketing
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  E14: Karen MS AI, $40B Saudi AI fund, Armenian and AI, YC advice #3 23.03.2024 58min

  (02:30) Karen Simonyan Microsoft AI (07:30) Saudi Arabia $40B AI Fund (13:05) Armenian Language and AI (22:20) Claude Demo (39:38) Happy Birthday, Davit (42:22) YC Do things that don't scale (57:00) Wrap Up
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  E15: Activeloop $11M raise, VC vs Bootstrapped, Krisp's story and more 31.03.2024 1godz 2min

  (02:22) Activeloop Series A raise (11:45) About Activeloop (17:35) Activeloop's competitors (29:19) Krisp ad break)) (32:06) How to cope with stress (42:31 )VC vs Bootstraped (45:30) Krisp's story (48:40) Hiring problem after raise (55:59) Final Q&A with Davit
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  Programmer vs System Engineer, Intel's strategy, Intel vs Nvidia, more 06.04.2024 1godz 5min

  (03:59) Education versus Skills (11:05) Areg's background (16:22) Working at Intel (19:29) Why did Intel have challenges in the AI battle and how they are responding (27:37) What is an AI Compiler (35:40) Fundamental knowledge (45:50) Education on fundamental knowledge in Armenia (59:56) Reasons why Intel doesn't have an office in Armenia
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  E17: Groq, Llama 3, Investors Yerevan visit, YC advice #4 and more 20.04.2024 54min

  02:29 RAISE summit in Paris 05:10 Groq Founder and his vision about AI 11:35 Groq Demo 14:37 Llama 3 model 18:33 On-device AI models 25:42 Meta's strategy of open-sourcing 31:09 How Pavel Durov runs Telegram 32:07 VC Investors in Yerevan 37:08 Investing in Armenian Startups 45:22 YC advice: Find the 90 / 10 solution
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  E18: Electric Vehicles, AI Doctors, Consumer Robots, YC Advice, ICP 27.04.2024 54min

  BigStory VC investors and tech founders Davit Baghdasaryan, Arto Minasyan, Arto Yeritsyan cover all things tech, startups and investments. (the podcast is in Armenian) 01:39 Electric Vehicles 11:47 Khosla predictions: AI tutors and AI doctors 25:06 Khosla predictions: Robots as a workforce 31:32 The Moxy robot 33:40 YC Advice: Find 10-100 customers who love your product 46:00 ICP Explained: Examples from Podcastle, Krisp, and 10Web
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  VC & Startup Insights from Alex, Partner at RTP ($3B Fund) 04.05.2024 1godz 6min

  BigStory VC investors and tech founders Davit Baghdasaryan, Arto Minasyan, Arto Yeritsyan cover all things tech, startups and investments. 01:44 Introducing Alex 05:44 Why Did RTP Invest in Two Armenian Startups? 19:48 Different Decision-Making Approaches in VCs 24:44 Datadog Investment Story 31:01 Finding the Right Stage Investors for Startups 39:48 What RTP Looks for in Founders 43:58 How Many Companies Do They Review? 54:32 Understanding the Business Side of VCs 01:01:44 Is It Real to Become a Billionaire as a VC Partner? 01:04:09 Alex's Experience Visiting Yerevan
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  E20: Devin $175M, xAI, Robotaxis, Audigo, ValueSense, YC #6 advise 11.05.2024 1godz 2min

  BigStory VC investors and tech founders Davit Baghdasaryan, Arto Minasyan, Arto Yeritsyan cover all things tech, startups and investments. The podcast is in Armenian. (01:40) 20th episode - A Milestone Episode (03:31) Finding Work-Life Balance (11:45) Devin's Raise and Their Demo Issues (21:33) X.AI and Musk's Intention to Create a Truth-Seeking AI News (27:09) Tesla's Prospects in the Self-Driving Robotaxi Market (40:52) Two New Investments by BigStory: Audigo and ValueSense (48:25) YC Advice: All Startups Are Badly Broken at Some Point