I was playing with machine learning back in 2018 and I just lost interest. Now I'm past 30 and it's too late.
Edit: The 30 line is in jest, but I definitely don't have the same drive anymore.
How. that's related to developing an AI startup?
But I really don't have the same drive I did just a few years ago. I was actively on Twitter trying to reach out to VCs to pitch my ideas.
Now I'm much more realistic, creating music and games just to create them.
I still think I have an amazing idea that just needs some funding.
1) A team with the right pedigree (HYPS / MIT / Berkeley / etc. Ph.D -> OpenAI / FAANG ML/AI research group)
2) The right VC and industry network.
3) A product that will scale to hundreds of millions / billions of users.
There are plenty of ridiculously talented ML/AI researchers and engineers out there, that unfortunately lack the "correct" educational and professional background. They have cool product ideas, but lack the "billion user" scale.
Those are the startups that get hit with peanuts, or simply don't get funded. While the "pro athletes" of the ML/AI world get billion dollar valuations for some cookie-cutter LLM, before they have a product at hand.
I joined an AI startup in 2021 as the first employee. Both founders were already older than 30 back then. One of them was even 35+ gasp. We raised $40M+ since then. No OpenAI like valuation but by no means bad I’d say! Especially for a European startup.
Get yourself together and rise to the challenge!
So I already have a somewhat AI powered project that based around music.
I have the prototype and videos of it in action on YouTube. How do I realistically pitch this. I'm actually just looking for feedback at this point.