Loading video...

Video Failed to Load

There was a problem loading this video. This could be due to a temporary network issue or the video might be unavailable.

"This company (Vapi) is on fire right now." – Gustaf Alströmer, Partner at Y Combinator. Two years ago, if you’d told me that Gustaf would be sharing Vapi’s success story on the YC podcast, I wouldn’t have believed you. At the time, things weren’t going our way. We were... two years post-YC, but the idea we raised our seed round on—a button to make joining online meetings—had settled into a lifestyle business. We were back in Canada, working 9-5, and feeling like we weren’t reaching our full potential as founders. Then, we had that pivotal conversation with Michael Seibel. His advice? Move back to SF and start fresh. It was a massive leap of faith, but we did it. We made a bold pivot, built Vapi from the ground up, and today, we couldn’t be more excited to see everything finally clicking into place. Fun fact: When we launched our first product, Gustaf was our very first customer—paying $20 to use our button. He’s been a huge supporter from day one. Thank you, Gustaf!show more

Jordan Dearsley

1,997 subscribers

40,696 views • 1 year ago •via X (Twitter)

Finance Science & Technology

Anya Rossi• Live Now

Private livecam show

11 Comments

Arsen Ibragimov1 year ago

@gustaf @ycombinator yeah heard of them, curious whats next

Your Daily Post1 year ago

Why did Two and a Half Men star Angus T. Jones call the show “filth” before leaving it in 2012? Since then, he’s left Hollywood, choosing to focus on his faith and community work. Here's the full story 👇

Vansh1 year ago

@ycombinator @gustaf Congratulations sir - well deserved

Cryptpal Singh | 🍊1 year ago

@gustaf @ycombinator Loving this. Great job 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Brennan McEachran 👨‍🚀1 year ago

@gustaf @ycombinator Proud of you man

Ruben Harris1 year ago

@gustaf @ycombinator Heart work pays off 👑❤️💪🏾

quang1 year ago

@gustaf @ycombinator came a long way. congrats guys

Artur Meyster1 year ago

@gustaf @ycombinator I remember hearing this story when we met in your office in Jan 2024! Great job always staying ahead and building critical voice AI infrastructure

helen1 year ago

@gustaf @ycombinator LFG

Akash Venkat1 year ago

@gustaf @ycombinator Congratulations!

Zach1 year ago

@gustaf @ycombinator As someone who is non technical (does that term even exist anymore with ai haha) I’ve loved my vapi experience with what I am trying to build

Related Videos

Just two months ago, we were on the verge of letting go of a customer that we had been serving for more than two years. The prices were super competitive as they were procuring these springs from China. According to our cost calculations, we would have to sell them these springs at our breakeven price point. We would not be making any profit from their orders. The volumes were huge and we decided to take up the challenge. In manufacturing, one of the very important metric that your product cost depends on is cycle time. The speed at which we are able to process that part within the desired tolerance. Higher the speed at which you can manufacture, lower the cost of making that component. We could only manage 150 pcs/minute on our imported machines. At this speed, it was unviable for us. It would only make sense for us to continue if we were somehow able to manufacture this spring at a minimum of 200 pcs/minute. We were far apart and it seemed we wouldn’t be able to reach that goal. We were on the verge of giving up after two years of persistent effort in increasing our speed. Today, we manufactured that same spring on the CNC machines that we built in-house at a whopping 220 pcs/minute! We went from almost letting go off that customer to now asking that very same customer to increase our order volumes! First video is our imported machine at 150 pcs/minute. The second video is our in-house machine at 220 pcs/minute.

Just two months ago, we were on the verge of letting go of a customer that we had been serving for more than two years. The prices were super competitive as they were procuring these springs from China. According to our cost calculations, we would have to sell them these springs at our breakeven price point. We would not be making any profit from their orders. The volumes were huge and we decided to take up the challenge. In manufacturing, one of the very important metric that your product cost depends on is cycle time. The speed at which we are able to process that part within the desired tolerance. Higher the speed at which you can manufacture, lower the cost of making that component. We could only manage 150 pcs/minute on our imported machines. At this speed, it was unviable for us. It would only make sense for us to continue if we were somehow able to manufacture this spring at a minimum of 200 pcs/minute. We were far apart and it seemed we wouldn’t be able to reach that goal. We were on the verge of giving up after two years of persistent effort in increasing our speed. Today, we manufactured that same spring on the CNC machines that we built in-house at a whopping 220 pcs/minute! We went from almost letting go off that customer to now asking that very same customer to increase our order volumes! First video is our imported machine at 150 pcs/minute. The second video is our in-house machine at 220 pcs/minute.

Vishakh Ranotra

19,933 views • 10 months ago

Dwyane Wade speaks on how much the 2006 Heat team would party during the season 💀 “We were out in them streets. We were hanging, we were partying. We had guys coming in 6,7 in the morning. We was living in Miami! The same thing the visitors were doing, that’s what guys on our team was doing… Shaq had to be like ‘Riles can you push practice back?’ It wasn’t a team that was so strict. If you come into the year and say these are the things your supposed to do to win a championship, we didn’t do that away from the court. That wasn’t a team I looked at like ‘oh yeah, we gonna win.’ We just so happened to start clicking at the right time… We were building our relationship like ‘to the windowwww, to the wall!’ We were hanging… Miami was on fire. We turned Miami into a whole different culture once we started winning. We were the first set of the Heatles. We had to manage guys enjoying that but also get work done on the court… it seemed like a unserious group away from the game but We had guys they knew how to turn it on, and I got really good” (Via Zach Lowe / DWade)

Dwyane Wade speaks on how much the 2006 Heat team would party during the season 💀 “We were out in them streets. We were hanging, we were partying. We had guys coming in 6,7 in the morning. We was living in Miami! The same thing the visitors were doing, that’s what guys on our team was doing… Shaq had to be like ‘Riles can you push practice back?’ It wasn’t a team that was so strict. If you come into the year and say these are the things your supposed to do to win a championship, we didn’t do that away from the court. That wasn’t a team I looked at like ‘oh yeah, we gonna win.’ We just so happened to start clicking at the right time… We were building our relationship like ‘to the windowwww, to the wall!’ We were hanging… Miami was on fire. We turned Miami into a whole different culture once we started winning. We were the first set of the Heatles. We had to manage guys enjoying that but also get work done on the court… it seemed like a unserious group away from the game but We had guys they knew how to turn it on, and I got really good” (Via Zach Lowe / DWade)

Heat Central

77,880 views • 4 months ago

2 years ago and 3 million dollars later, we opened our doors to our wedding venue that we built from the ground up We took a massive risk, had no idea what we were in for but somehow figured it out as we went. We went through hell and back while building. Started the planning phase during Covid and during construction we ran into a ton of problems. Ended up having to push back our completion date, which was not fun with booked weddings.. We have now successfully completed close to 150 weddings and have booked (50% deposits down) over 220 weddings. Those 220 weddings will generate close to 2.5 million in revenue. Plus we do a ton of other events. All in 2 years of our building being completed With all that being said I still stress about what 5-10 years looks like from today. We are constantly reinvesting back into the building and business and hope to continue to evolve from a building into a brand. Worked with a local influencer to create the below video.

Alex Nelson

141,873 views • 1 year ago

#LNGSHOT #LOUIS #WOOJIN shared full story how “Never Let Go” was born 👶🏻 this song was actually originally worked on by me and woojin hyung when we were still trainees. after our coach leader heard it, he said the song’s quality was too good, so we decided to try a full team version 🐆after our schedule was over, we just watched youtube and listened to a lot of songs. louis and i were together at that time so we thought “let’s just try it” we searched for a beat right there, i turned on the recording and louis immediately freestyled. i used the hook and then wrote the post-chorus right away. actually at first we weren’t that obsessed or that into the song even though we had kept it, but when our coach leader heard it, he said “this has to be done” so that day we worked on it with the hyungs. at the company, they also matched us with a topliner hyung who was close to us and from there the song developed, but we never imagined it would make it into the debut album

#LNGSHOT #LOUIS #WOOJIN shared full story how “Never Let Go” was born 👶🏻 this song was actually originally worked on by me and woojin hyung when we were still trainees. after our coach leader heard it, he said the song’s quality was too good, so we decided to try a full team version 🐆after our schedule was over, we just watched youtube and listened to a lot of songs. louis and i were together at that time so we thought “let’s just try it” we searched for a beat right there, i turned on the recording and louis immediately freestyled. i used the hook and then wrote the post-chorus right away. actually at first we weren’t that obsessed or that into the song even though we had kept it, but when our coach leader heard it, he said “this has to be done” so that day we worked on it with the hyungs. at the company, they also matched us with a topliner hyung who was close to us and from there the song developed, but we never imagined it would make it into the debut album

ㄴㄹ

71,630 views • 5 months ago

If you take strong action and it is very different action from what your country has known before...you can only be confident that your action is right if it is founded on strong principles. Mine was founded on the belief that governments are there to serve the liberties of the people under a rule of law, a free enterprise economy, and strong defence. After we lost the election in 1974, and the Labour Government came in, we had departed from our fundamental principles. And I set up a great study with many people—not only politicians but businessmen, academics, journalists—and we redrafted our whole principles. From the principles, we decided the policies and we sorted out what needed to be done and how it was to be done when we got into power. That took four years. I had confidence we were in the right and our policies would achieve the right. Although, as you know, great change means great dislocation. We had to cut expenditure; we had to privatise; we had to get down taxation; we had to cut the bureaucracy. All of the people objected, and for two and a half years my name was marred. It's always difficult to do the right thing. But my father had taught me to persevere: It's easy to be a starter, but are you a sticker-to? It's easy enough to begin a job, it's harder to see it through. And I saw it through. After three years, all of a sudden, the good things in the economy began to show through. At the same time, we had the Falklands, and against all odds we won. Although, the world thought it was really rather astonishing that Britain sent a fleet 8,000 miles away into the bitter cold Antarctic against a foe that had air cover from land when we only had it from aircraft carriers. So the two reinforced one another. But I couldn't have done it unless I had been confident that we had the right principles and that if we persisted, it would show through to the benefit of our people. I was never defeated in an election by the people of my country. That is my proudest boast.

If you take strong action and it is very different action from what your country has known before...you can only be confident that your action is right if it is founded on strong principles. Mine was founded on the belief that governments are there to serve the liberties of the people under a rule of law, a free enterprise economy, and strong defence. After we lost the election in 1974, and the Labour Government came in, we had departed from our fundamental principles. And I set up a great study with many people—not only politicians but businessmen, academics, journalists—and we redrafted our whole principles. From the principles, we decided the policies and we sorted out what needed to be done and how it was to be done when we got into power. That took four years. I had confidence we were in the right and our policies would achieve the right. Although, as you know, great change means great dislocation. We had to cut expenditure; we had to privatise; we had to get down taxation; we had to cut the bureaucracy. All of the people objected, and for two and a half years my name was marred. It's always difficult to do the right thing. But my father had taught me to persevere: It's easy to be a starter, but are you a sticker-to? It's easy enough to begin a job, it's harder to see it through. And I saw it through. After three years, all of a sudden, the good things in the economy began to show through. At the same time, we had the Falklands, and against all odds we won. Although, the world thought it was really rather astonishing that Britain sent a fleet 8,000 miles away into the bitter cold Antarctic against a foe that had air cover from land when we only had it from aircraft carriers. So the two reinforced one another. But I couldn't have done it unless I had been confident that we had the right principles and that if we persisted, it would show through to the benefit of our people. I was never defeated in an election by the people of my country. That is my proudest boast.

Margaret Thatcher

11,205 views • 1 year ago

When we first started many didn’t believe it could be done. An all American made organic pillow with real American wool. We were told American wool was a dying industry and that we weren’t big enough to meet order minimums for American grown organic cotton. We were told that bootstrapping (literally building everything from scratch without any real funds) wasn’t going to be possible. I thank God for our stubbornness and our belief that you can do whatever you put your mind to. We put our heads down and have busted our asses to get to where we are. We now have our very own wool mill (1960s American made machinery to vertically integrate) and our own property with a sew shop and a space for wool processing. This is just the beginning and you can expect big things from The Woolshire going forward. Thank you all from the bottom of our hearts for your love, prayers, and support. Happy 3 year birthday, Woolshire.

When we first started many didn’t believe it could be done. An all American made organic pillow with real American wool. We were told American wool was a dying industry and that we weren’t big enough to meet order minimums for American grown organic cotton. We were told that bootstrapping (literally building everything from scratch without any real funds) wasn’t going to be possible. I thank God for our stubbornness and our belief that you can do whatever you put your mind to. We put our heads down and have busted our asses to get to where we are. We now have our very own wool mill (1960s American made machinery to vertically integrate) and our own property with a sew shop and a space for wool processing. This is just the beginning and you can expect big things from The Woolshire going forward. Thank you all from the bottom of our hearts for your love, prayers, and support. Happy 3 year birthday, Woolshire.

The Woolshire

259,092 views • 7 months ago

PRX alecks reflects on the team's playstyle and how it has evolved over the years: "I think we've just got a lot more careful. I think that was a bit disappointing on our side because I think we know how to shut this down because we used to do these kinds of things and we couldn't do it today because, again, like I said, we forgot. I can go through the years, but between 2022 to 2024, we pretty much just made sure that everything was strat-based and we just charged people and hoped that we had better mechanics. Then around 2025, I think we took a look at the year and with how good Yoru was, we just tried to leverage the fact that Yoru could be everywhere on the map and we tried to make sure that we understood the game on a micro level a lot better. Maybe for all you know, it came back to bite us in the ass today. What we needed to do was win the fight and then [inaudible], and we used to be very good at that. So if the meta stays the same, I can promise you that we will be back to our best charging people." (via Manguitouu Sons of KS)

PRX alecks reflects on the team's playstyle and how it has evolved over the years: "I think we've just got a lot more careful. I think that was a bit disappointing on our side because I think we know how to shut this down because we used to do these kinds of things and we couldn't do it today because, again, like I said, we forgot. I can go through the years, but between 2022 to 2024, we pretty much just made sure that everything was strat-based and we just charged people and hoped that we had better mechanics. Then around 2025, I think we took a look at the year and with how good Yoru was, we just tried to leverage the fact that Yoru could be everywhere on the map and we tried to make sure that we understood the game on a micro level a lot better. Maybe for all you know, it came back to bite us in the ass today. What we needed to do was win the fight and then [inaudible], and we used to be very good at that. So if the meta stays the same, I can promise you that we will be back to our best charging people." (via Manguitouu Sons of KS)

VALO2ASIA

71,155 views • 4 months ago

Thank you Chennai ❤️ for that overwhelming response on our first day! We had almost 2000 visitors yesterday! We did experience a lot of power outages due to the cyclone and sorry that caused delays for our guests. But I can assure you that our rides were safe and we will further strengthen our processes to reduce such delays. If you had issues pls reach out to our page Wonderla and we will make it right. Thanks again for the love! ❤️

Thank you Chennai ❤️ for that overwhelming response on our first day! We had almost 2000 visitors yesterday! We did experience a lot of power outages due to the cyclone and sorry that caused delays for our guests. But I can assure you that our rides were safe and we will further strengthen our processes to reduce such delays. If you had issues pls reach out to our page Wonderla and we will make it right. Thanks again for the love! ❤️

Arun Chittilappilly

74,215 views • 7 months ago

EXCLUSIVE: Check out the Mock Trailer that helped us sell Cobra Kai! In 2017, we had the daunting task of trying to explain to buyers in Hollywood what we envisioned Cobra Kai to look and feel like. Sure, we had a detailed pitch and Ralph Macchio and William Zabka joining us in pitch meetings, but the tone of our show was going to be so specific that we wanted to do our best to show streamers how they could potentially sell the overall story and vibe of Cobra Kai. Without actually filming the show, our task was near impossible and it was never going to be perfect, but with the help of our incredibly talented editor friend Jeff Yorkes, we cobbled together footage from Ralph and Billy’s prior work, mixed it was other images that helped tell our story, and threw Thunderstruck under it. We showed this sizzle in all of our pitch meetings to set the tone. But now for the very first time right, I’m sending it to the internet! A couple fun facts… 1) We had different versions of this sizzle tailored for each buyer we went to. This one mentions Netflix, but when we were meeting at YouTube, it said YouTube. Hulu it said Hulu. And so on. 2) We became absolutely obsessed with Thunderstruck from watching this trailer over and over again and always wanted to have it on the show. But it was so expensive, we couldn’t afford it. Instead we had Johnny mention it in passing as a meta nod when he wanted to advertise the dojo in S2. When making S6, we were determined to finally use the song when Johnny and Miguel took back Cobra Kai, so we saved money in other areas of our budget to make it happen. I’m so glad we did! #cobrakai #behindthescenes #netflix #trailer #sizzlereel #karatekid #karate

EXCLUSIVE: Check out the Mock Trailer that helped us sell Cobra Kai! In 2017, we had the daunting task of trying to explain to buyers in Hollywood what we envisioned Cobra Kai to look and feel like. Sure, we had a detailed pitch and Ralph Macchio and William Zabka joining us in pitch meetings, but the tone of our show was going to be so specific that we wanted to do our best to show streamers how they could potentially sell the overall story and vibe of Cobra Kai. Without actually filming the show, our task was near impossible and it was never going to be perfect, but with the help of our incredibly talented editor friend Jeff Yorkes, we cobbled together footage from Ralph and Billy’s prior work, mixed it was other images that helped tell our story, and threw Thunderstruck under it. We showed this sizzle in all of our pitch meetings to set the tone. But now for the very first time right, I’m sending it to the internet! A couple fun facts… 1) We had different versions of this sizzle tailored for each buyer we went to. This one mentions Netflix, but when we were meeting at YouTube, it said YouTube. Hulu it said Hulu. And so on. 2) We became absolutely obsessed with Thunderstruck from watching this trailer over and over again and always wanted to have it on the show. But it was so expensive, we couldn’t afford it. Instead we had Johnny mention it in passing as a meta nod when he wanted to advertise the dojo in S2. When making S6, we were determined to finally use the song when Johnny and Miguel took back Cobra Kai, so we saved money in other areas of our budget to make it happen. I’m so glad we did! #cobrakai #behindthescenes #netflix #trailer #sizzlereel #karatekid #karate

Jon Hurwitz

92,607 views • 1 year ago

#WATCH | Saba Rasool says, "I went to Iran in 2021 for MBBS...A few days back, we received a call from Embassy, asking us to pack our necessary belongings and that we would be relocated...We were in Urmia, and then we were taken to Armenia. Indian Embassy officials in Tehran accompanied us to the Armenian border. From the border, Indian Embassy officials in Armenia helped us with everything...We came out of there finally yesterday. The arrangements on the flight were very good. We were disappointed only at Delhi Airport. We had a few students from Maharashtra with us, and their representatives had come there. Hotels were booked for them and their tickets were booked for evening...But for us, SRTC buses in poor condition were parked outside...So, in emergency, we had to book our own tickets at 4 times the price because we booked tickets at just two hours before (the flight)...It feels good to be back with our family..."

#WATCH | Saba Rasool says, "I went to Iran in 2021 for MBBS...A few days back, we received a call from Embassy, asking us to pack our necessary belongings and that we would be relocated...We were in Urmia, and then we were taken to Armenia. Indian Embassy officials in Tehran accompanied us to the Armenian border. From the border, Indian Embassy officials in Armenia helped us with everything...We came out of there finally yesterday. The arrangements on the flight were very good. We were disappointed only at Delhi Airport. We had a few students from Maharashtra with us, and their representatives had come there. Hotels were booked for them and their tickets were booked for evening...But for us, SRTC buses in poor condition were parked outside...So, in emergency, we had to book our own tickets at 4 times the price because we booked tickets at just two hours before (the flight)...It feels good to be back with our family..."

ANI

21,558 views • 1 year ago

FNC Boaster: “These events are, as you can probably imagine, quite tiring. We go from the upper bracket into three games in a row for the final days. That, on top of lots of media, lots of features, lots of just random stuff that we do. Not to mention the fact that when we go into our games, there’s a lot of adrenaline. After every game, my body aches and my head hurts, and then we have to somehow get to sleep, and then we’ve got to wake up early and stuff. So there’s loads of factors into this. It’s not just simply, you go in and you play. And I think we started slow today, especially on Corrode and Lotus. A big map was Lotus for us, and we weren’t able to, just everything wasn’t going our way. The Odin was completely annihilating us. Then when we got to Abyss, we were like, ‘This is the last chance.’ And I felt very confident that we could win this one, because I felt like I knew everything they did on the attack side. And then, what were we like 1–11 down or something? I was like, ‘Oh bloody hell, this one’s going to be a tough one, isn’t it?’ We managed to do it, and then I was like, ‘Holy guacamole, the dream is alive!’ And it felt amazing, hearing the crowd and being able to just do that, because it would’ve been so disappointing of a final to just bomb out there. But in the FNATIC way, we fight back. Ascent, we’re starting to feel the kind of momentum. And then it gets to Sunset, a map that was the one kind of perma-ban we had, but we had some stuff on it. Unfortunately, it was just the crucial map for us to get the win, and some of the rounds just didn’t go our way, and that’s how VALORANT goes, you know. It felt like the rounds that we needed to win, we lost, and then they had an ultimate the next round, and that’s how brutal it is on defense. If we had just been able to win one of those rounds, like the bonus round, holy guacamole, we would’ve been loving life. And it was the difference of like a 1v1 in the end. So yeah, I mean, we tried our best. That’s why I’m not that [sad]. I am sad, obviously, but I’m not like how I was in Toronto, because I felt like we pushed, we tried our best, and I’m very happy with the boys. It would’ve been nice to win, but there’s only one winner, so it’s just a blessing to compete instead.” #VALORANTChampions via Pedro Romero

FNC Boaster: “These events are, as you can probably imagine, quite tiring. We go from the upper bracket into three games in a row for the final days. That, on top of lots of media, lots of features, lots of just random stuff that we do. Not to mention the fact that when we go into our games, there’s a lot of adrenaline. After every game, my body aches and my head hurts, and then we have to somehow get to sleep, and then we’ve got to wake up early and stuff. So there’s loads of factors into this. It’s not just simply, you go in and you play. And I think we started slow today, especially on Corrode and Lotus. A big map was Lotus for us, and we weren’t able to, just everything wasn’t going our way. The Odin was completely annihilating us. Then when we got to Abyss, we were like, ‘This is the last chance.’ And I felt very confident that we could win this one, because I felt like I knew everything they did on the attack side. And then, what were we like 1–11 down or something? I was like, ‘Oh bloody hell, this one’s going to be a tough one, isn’t it?’ We managed to do it, and then I was like, ‘Holy guacamole, the dream is alive!’ And it felt amazing, hearing the crowd and being able to just do that, because it would’ve been so disappointing of a final to just bomb out there. But in the FNATIC way, we fight back. Ascent, we’re starting to feel the kind of momentum. And then it gets to Sunset, a map that was the one kind of perma-ban we had, but we had some stuff on it. Unfortunately, it was just the crucial map for us to get the win, and some of the rounds just didn’t go our way, and that’s how VALORANT goes, you know. It felt like the rounds that we needed to win, we lost, and then they had an ultimate the next round, and that’s how brutal it is on defense. If we had just been able to win one of those rounds, like the bonus round, holy guacamole, we would’ve been loving life. And it was the difference of like a 1v1 in the end. So yeah, I mean, we tried our best. That’s why I’m not that [sad]. I am sad, obviously, but I’m not like how I was in Toronto, because I felt like we pushed, we tried our best, and I’m very happy with the boys. It would’ve been nice to win, but there’s only one winner, so it’s just a blessing to compete instead.” #VALORANTChampions via Pedro Romero

VALO2ASIA

159,942 views • 9 months ago

👩: Who compared love to running a marathon? Mew : Tul. Tul : 🙋‍♂️ 👩: What did you mean? Like, you went through a lot along the way? A marathon is so long and full of challenges. Tul : A lot, I was comparing it to a sprint which is short, intense and requiring a lot of concentration. At that time, we were in a long-distance relationship. I was studying abroad and P'Mew was in Thailand. 👩: How far apart were you…? Tul : 12 hours. 👩: I mean for how many years? Mew : Almost 2 years. Tul : It was hard from the beginning, our relationship started as a long-distance one. But we focused on the long-term goal. If we both were stressed all the time, we wouldn’t have made it (to the finish line). If we were too strict, like saying, "You have to give me this much time" while both of us had our own responsibilities. It could’ve left both of us exhausted. We shared the idea that we should keep the relationship going (until one day) we wouldn’t have to be in a long-distance relationship. So I called it a marathon. After that, it’s about maintaining a long-term relationship, not always intense but just being comfortable, like a comfort zone.

👩: Who compared love to running a marathon? Mew : Tul. Tul : 🙋‍♂️ 👩: What did you mean? Like, you went through a lot along the way? A marathon is so long and full of challenges. Tul : A lot, I was comparing it to a sprint which is short, intense and requiring a lot of concentration. At that time, we were in a long-distance relationship. I was studying abroad and P'Mew was in Thailand. 👩: How far apart were you…? Tul : 12 hours. 👩: I mean for how many years? Mew : Almost 2 years. Tul : It was hard from the beginning, our relationship started as a long-distance one. But we focused on the long-term goal. If we both were stressed all the time, we wouldn’t have made it (to the finish line). If we were too strict, like saying, "You have to give me this much time" while both of us had our own responsibilities. It could’ve left both of us exhausted. We shared the idea that we should keep the relationship going (until one day) we wouldn’t have to be in a long-distance relationship. So I called it a marathon. After that, it’s about maintaining a long-term relationship, not always intense but just being comfortable, like a comfort zone.

💞

17,418 views • 1 year ago

I found Stilt's video for our Y Combinator 2016 application. The video was shot on a makeshift table (recorded on an old laptop) at my apartment in San Francisco. Priyank Singh and I were a couple of normal H-1B visa holders (prior international students) who thought a company should exist to provide better financial services for immigrants. We had no outside funding, so we started lending our money. When we applied, we had lent out $25,000 from our savings to strangers on the internet. When we ran out of our savings, we borrowed from friends. By the time we interviewed, that number had increased to $50,000. By the time we sold the company, we had originated hundreds of millions in loans to immigrants from more than 150 countries. Everything starts small. If you are interested in building a startup, just launch. Build one step at a time, and you'll get much farther than you thought you would in a short time.

I found Stilt's video for our Y Combinator 2016 application. The video was shot on a makeshift table (recorded on an old laptop) at my apartment in San Francisco. Priyank Singh and I were a couple of normal H-1B visa holders (prior international students) who thought a company should exist to provide better financial services for immigrants. We had no outside funding, so we started lending our money. When we applied, we had lent out $25,000 from our savings to strangers on the internet. When we ran out of our savings, we borrowed from friends. By the time we interviewed, that number had increased to $50,000. By the time we sold the company, we had originated hundreds of millions in loans to immigrants from more than 150 countries. Everything starts small. If you are interested in building a startup, just launch. Build one step at a time, and you'll get much farther than you thought you would in a short time.

Rohit Mittal

17,035 views • 1 year ago

Harold Lloyd on how the stunts in "Safety Last!" (1923) were filmed: “In the first place, we used four buildings. We picked out a structure we wanted for the actual building. Then we chose a two story, four story, or whatever height building we needed. Then we built our own sets on top of them. We started the film with a one-story building and built our set right on the edge of the real building’s roof. We built it so that we could put platforms out and constructed the scaffolding on the side so that the camera man could be up there and shoot down. I remember how we had to put the platform low enough and narrow enough so that the camera man could miss it when he was shooting down at an angle. The platform would be fourteen feet or so below us. From above it looked no bigger than a postage stamp! It was loaded with mattresses in order to break our fall if we did slip as we went through our antics. We didn’t want to commit suicide just to make somebody laugh. But we were always in danger despite this precaution. Falling even a short distance was no small matter. Besides, we could easily roll off the platform because it didn’t have any railings around it. In those days, we didn’t want to divulge how we performed our stunts. We didn’t want to give away any of our techniques for fear of making the public disillusioned with the thrill of it all. Looking back, it seems strange that we would have this worry, for the thrills were far from artificial. The danger, while not as great as it might appear to the public, was nevertheless still very real." ("Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy", William Cahn, 1964) P.S: On this day, 103 years ago, "Safety Last!" was released in the USA.

Harold Lloyd on how the stunts in "Safety Last!" (1923) were filmed: “In the first place, we used four buildings. We picked out a structure we wanted for the actual building. Then we chose a two story, four story, or whatever height building we needed. Then we built our own sets on top of them. We started the film with a one-story building and built our set right on the edge of the real building’s roof. We built it so that we could put platforms out and constructed the scaffolding on the side so that the camera man could be up there and shoot down. I remember how we had to put the platform low enough and narrow enough so that the camera man could miss it when he was shooting down at an angle. The platform would be fourteen feet or so below us. From above it looked no bigger than a postage stamp! It was loaded with mattresses in order to break our fall if we did slip as we went through our antics. We didn’t want to commit suicide just to make somebody laugh. But we were always in danger despite this precaution. Falling even a short distance was no small matter. Besides, we could easily roll off the platform because it didn’t have any railings around it. In those days, we didn’t want to divulge how we performed our stunts. We didn’t want to give away any of our techniques for fear of making the public disillusioned with the thrill of it all. Looking back, it seems strange that we would have this worry, for the thrills were far from artificial. The danger, while not as great as it might appear to the public, was nevertheless still very real." ("Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy", William Cahn, 1964) P.S: On this day, 103 years ago, "Safety Last!" was released in the USA.

DepressedBergman

12,914 views • 3 months ago

EMIBONNIEANY MID YEAR SALE #EucerinxEmiBonnieAny 🎤: What was the moment that you were most impressed with during Blush Blossom Fan Fest? 🦊: "หัวไหล่ตูด (Head, Shoulders, Butt)" which was one of the songs we performed, bc the shows on the first and second day of the concert were different. We changed a bit of the choreography on the second day. When we had spare moments on the second day, we would practice. We used our limited break time to practice and make it a different show, so that the fans could feel awed. 🐰: I was going to say the same thing as P'Mi. 🦊: Really? 🐰: Yeah. 🦊: It was a pretty amazing shot. 🐰: Yeah, it was a moment that we didn't dance the same on both days. 🦊: And we thought that very morning like, why don't we make the shows not the same? 🐰: Yeah. And when we were doing the (photo) benefits, the fans might've seen us looking dazed. We were dazed, but inside we were thinking, what should we do? What should we do? 🦊: What should we do for the fans to be even more excited? 🐰: We were reviewing the moves in our head. 🎤: There was a comment just now saying, "You did amazing. The shows were not the same." 🦊: We were a bit anxious, bc we didn't have time to do a run through at all. We practiced in the room and then performed it on stage. I was nervous abt whether we would be able to do it. Usually, I can't remember choreography that quickly. So I was a bit nervous abt whether we'd be able to do it. It was definitely a memorable moment. 🎤: But it came out very memorable. 🦊: Yeah, it came out exactly as we envisioned. Even better, actually.

EMIBONNIEANY MID YEAR SALE #EucerinxEmiBonnieAny 🎤: What was the moment that you were most impressed with during Blush Blossom Fan Fest? 🦊: "หัวไหล่ตูด (Head, Shoulders, Butt)" which was one of the songs we performed, bc the shows on the first and second day of the concert were different. We changed a bit of the choreography on the second day. When we had spare moments on the second day, we would practice. We used our limited break time to practice and make it a different show, so that the fans could feel awed. 🐰: I was going to say the same thing as P'Mi. 🦊: Really? 🐰: Yeah. 🦊: It was a pretty amazing shot. 🐰: Yeah, it was a moment that we didn't dance the same on both days. 🦊: And we thought that very morning like, why don't we make the shows not the same? 🐰: Yeah. And when we were doing the (photo) benefits, the fans might've seen us looking dazed. We were dazed, but inside we were thinking, what should we do? What should we do? 🦊: What should we do for the fans to be even more excited? 🐰: We were reviewing the moves in our head. 🎤: There was a comment just now saying, "You did amazing. The shows were not the same." 🦊: We were a bit anxious, bc we didn't have time to do a run through at all. We practiced in the room and then performed it on stage. I was nervous abt whether we would be able to do it. Usually, I can't remember choreography that quickly. So I was a bit nervous abt whether we'd be able to do it. It was definitely a memorable moment. 🎤: But it came out very memorable. 🦊: Yeah, it came out exactly as we envisioned. Even better, actually.

K-bab

49,781 views • 23 days ago

Paul Buchheit, who was there when OpenAI started as YC Research, looks back on how crazy the idea was and how insane it is that it actually worked: "And so we had this sort of like loony moonshot idea to start at the time we called it YC research, but it eventually got renamed open AI. We were going to take on Google with a small nonprofit, which doesn't quite pass the laugh test. Right? Like, like how is this little nonprofit going to, going to be the one that actually develops AGI when the other companies have dramatically more resources. And then here we are 10 years later, it actually happened. And at the time it just seemed incredibly implausible. Like no one would have believed it. Yet here we are on, I think basically the best timeline, like we actually delivered it. We have, An open and competitive market with, I would say at least six foundation models that are competing, including an open source one from meta. And I think that's our best shot for preserving freedom is, choice and competition. " - Paul Buchheit

Paul Buchheit, who was there when OpenAI started as YC Research, looks back on how crazy the idea was and how insane it is that it actually worked: "And so we had this sort of like loony moonshot idea to start at the time we called it YC research, but it eventually got renamed open AI. We were going to take on Google with a small nonprofit, which doesn't quite pass the laugh test. Right? Like, like how is this little nonprofit going to, going to be the one that actually develops AGI when the other companies have dramatically more resources. And then here we are 10 years later, it actually happened. And at the time it just seemed incredibly implausible. Like no one would have believed it. Yet here we are on, I think basically the best timeline, like we actually delivered it. We have, An open and competitive market with, I would say at least six foundation models that are competing, including an open source one from meta. And I think that's our best shot for preserving freedom is, choice and competition. " - Paul Buchheit

Jared Friedman

55,910 views • 1 year ago

Karl Popper on How We Gain Knowledge: ––Karl Popper: "People think, usually, that we acquire knowledge by opening our eyes and our ears and let the sensations stream into us, and they believe then that we record this like a camera. In my opinion, if we wish to get knowledge, we have to have a problem. It has to be knowledge of something. We have to find out something. We don't have to wait for information to stream into us, but we have to be inquisitive if we want to get knowledge. If we were passive, we would gain a confused mass of sensations or something like that, which we would hardly be able to understand and to convert into what one may call knowledge. Quite apart from that, perception is not really, in my opinion, the main source of our knowledge. The role of perception is to inform us about a momentary situation in our environment. But we couldn't really interpret our perceptions without knowing much more about our environment, namely, we know whether we are in a house or whether we are in a glacier. So we have two kinds of knowledge: this wider knowledge of a frame in which we orientate ourselves, and the momentary perception which gives us information about the situation at that particular moment. And it is only this situation in which we can use our perception. So we have theoretical knowledge and, if you like, the momentary practical challenge to our theoretical knowledge. And here comes perception in."

Karl Popper on How We Gain Knowledge: ––Karl Popper: "People think, usually, that we acquire knowledge by opening our eyes and our ears and let the sensations stream into us, and they believe then that we record this like a camera. In my opinion, if we wish to get knowledge, we have to have a problem. It has to be knowledge of something. We have to find out something. We don't have to wait for information to stream into us, but we have to be inquisitive if we want to get knowledge. If we were passive, we would gain a confused mass of sensations or something like that, which we would hardly be able to understand and to convert into what one may call knowledge. Quite apart from that, perception is not really, in my opinion, the main source of our knowledge. The role of perception is to inform us about a momentary situation in our environment. But we couldn't really interpret our perceptions without knowing much more about our environment, namely, we know whether we are in a house or whether we are in a glacier. So we have two kinds of knowledge: this wider knowledge of a frame in which we orientate ourselves, and the momentary perception which gives us information about the situation at that particular moment. And it is only this situation in which we can use our perception. So we have theoretical knowledge and, if you like, the momentary practical challenge to our theoretical knowledge. And here comes perception in."

Karl Popper Quotes

114,965 views • 2 months ago

You have no idea how many times we’ve heard from someone “Millennium was my first concert!” It’s hard to say this on behalf of ourselves, but it seems like this album defined a generation in some ways. Watching the way you showed up then, we knew you’d show up now. There was no doubt in our minds that if we made this, you would come. Not only was that time back in ‘99 special for each of you, but it was special for the five of us as well. It was arguably some of the best times of our lives. It was the moment we knew that the dream we had wanted for so long was becoming a reality. Everything we had worked for was coming into clear vision. People really seemed to like what we were doing, and the Backstreet Boys became a household name. It was hard to leave the houses and it was even harder to leave our families but just as we did it then we are doing it now and it’s all for you. Millennium 2.0 is here and it’s officially yours. Text that person who once told you that you’d get over it and let them know it was never a phase. The Backstreet Pride is still alive, baby!! 🩵 AJ, Brian, Howie, Nick and Kevin

You have no idea how many times we’ve heard from someone “Millennium was my first concert!” It’s hard to say this on behalf of ourselves, but it seems like this album defined a generation in some ways. Watching the way you showed up then, we knew you’d show up now. There was no doubt in our minds that if we made this, you would come. Not only was that time back in ‘99 special for each of you, but it was special for the five of us as well. It was arguably some of the best times of our lives. It was the moment we knew that the dream we had wanted for so long was becoming a reality. Everything we had worked for was coming into clear vision. People really seemed to like what we were doing, and the Backstreet Boys became a household name. It was hard to leave the houses and it was even harder to leave our families but just as we did it then we are doing it now and it’s all for you. Millennium 2.0 is here and it’s officially yours. Text that person who once told you that you’d get over it and let them know it was never a phase. The Backstreet Pride is still alive, baby!! 🩵 AJ, Brian, Howie, Nick and Kevin

Backstreet Boys

215,105 views • 1 year ago