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I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: years ago, Peter helped me secure authorization to become employee #1 at one of the most successful AI companies to come out of YC. Without his advice, I honestly don’t think I’d have the career I have today.

Since then, he has guided me and many friends through complex immigration processes, always flawlessly and on time. I’d strongly recommend listening to his advice and considering his services.

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This looks really useful! FYI my day job is at a frontier voice ai lab focused on hyper-realistic low latency TTS (we're a commercial spinoff of Kyutai called Gradium). Happy to hook you up with a bunch of free credits if it's at all useful. Contact me anytime via colin at gradium dot ai.

Hi. Our model at http://www.Gradium.ai has no problem with 'code-switching' between Spanish English and we have excellent background noise suppression. Please feel free to give it a try and let me know what you think!

It's actively under development. Do you have a particular use-case in mind?

Hey Rob. I'm not on the tech team here at Gradium (I do GTM) but still curious where you found the glitch? Were you entering words into the STT in the bottom of the front page? Can you share an example so I can replicate? Many thanks!

I'm psyched to see so much interest in my post about Kyutai's latest model! I'm working on part of a related team in Paris that's building off Kutai's research to provide enterprise-grade voice solutions. If anyone building in this space I'd love to chat and share some our upcoming models and capabilities that I am told are SOTA. Please don't hesitate to ping me via the address in my profile.

I moved to the USA in 2016 thanks to Peters help and every successful interaction I have had with USCIS since then has been because of his sage advice. You will not find a more knowledgeable or kind adviser than Peter.

I don't think new theatre releases are generally getting leak in digital formats anymore until they hit streaming which can sometimes be as soon as weeks or couple months after original release. Obviously 'tele-syncs' (cameras capturing the film) still exist but that wasn't your question. The one exception to this can be oscar movie season when studios release films via a special Apple TV app and that be be slightly less secure (though still water-marked).

I would ask you to support your claim of 'high quality digital dumps' by citing one that has come out in the last couple years. See https://predb.net/

There is a lot of great content here though I worry some of it is quickly becoming outdated. Every three months google has been updating their spam filters and making it harder and harder deliver sales emails at scale.

As evidence of this, look at Rift.com a YC/Sequoia-backed sales email tool that closely followed this same playbook but was forced to kill their service as Google made it increasingly difficult to deliver sales messages at scale.

Conversion rates use to be 1-10% from email to meeting booking. Now I believe most teams are seeing significantly below 1%.

Hello. I don't have any questions but just wanted to share that I found Peter through one of these threads 9 years ago and his work and advice has been incredibly helpful in ensuring my continued ability to live and work in America through a variety of situations. I highly recommend using his services and listening to his sage advice.

The following was advice an accomplished PhD wrote to me discouraging me from co-founding Pretty Litter which would eventually become a billion dollar (sold to Mars) CPG business: “here is some free consulting advice: you need to think very carefully through the economics and competitive environment of the cat litter business. At the end of the day there needs to be a real business, not just an exercise in PR and crowdfunding, and the risk-reward in cat litter is not at all appealing.

Cat litter is a commodity product, and there are huge brands that know how to manufacture, distribute, advertise, and market it at massive scale. There are already other color-changing cat litter products. Your team has zero expertise, IP, or competitive advantages in manufacturing, chemistry, consumer products, animal health, diagnostics, or distribution. Cat litter is not an industry that needs disruption.”

lol, excellent idea.

Lol I didn't notice that they photoshopped turtlenecks onto every employee's photo.

No, the salary does not reflect the additional working day whatsoever.

What the recruiter said when I asked him to clarify was "Our understanding so far that is that it's FT on-site Mon-Sat."

Well apparently they have hundreds of customers which sounds pretty impressive for a young company and they have Tier 1 investors which is often a good sign. They seem to have a highly differentiated product with a large TAM in smart niche.

On the other hand, the founder/CEO is very young/inexperienced which could explain some of the unusual management style.

Very interesting feedback, thank you!

Well this was actually the point of my question. I have been an independent consultant for a couple years now so I don't really have my finger on the pulse of current startup trends. My question is indeed if a lot of new startups are doing this in which case perhaps it's worth considering or if this is a very abnormal requirement in which it's perhaps a red flag.

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The longtime CEO/President of Starbucks recently invested in a Cold Brew startup called Cumulus which makes instead coldbrew via a $600 countertop machine.

https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/11/16/howard-schultz-part-o...

Rybelsus is an oral version of semaglutide which has good efficacy.

It's trivial to prevent this category of card from being accepted. Many similar services already block pre-paid cards.

Yes, 100%

We built a working version of this using Assembly.ai

I am no-longer involved in the project but you're welcome to contact the CTO if you're curious how it worked:

https://skyscraper.ai/

I would also love to see a simple explanation.

wow, this is clearly the most complex question in today's thread.

I am blocked by Garry despite having zero interactions with him on Twitter (nor ever tweeting anything controversial). I see numerous reports of other people stating the same both in this thread and on twitter: https://imgur.com/a/MOPDVSl

This seems cool, thanks for sharing!

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