Sarah Tavel

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"Character AI — unbelievable what they did and it was like a new paradigm. But still it was always like you would speak to Noam and for him the product was the model."

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"Replika was of course the first player in the space. But there are a bunch of different downstream companies."

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"USDC is pretty strong, too. So there's definitely some network effects there."

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"Tether, as an example, which is the dominant stablecoin right now, just has more liquidity on all the exchanges. And so it's a lot easier to go in and out of Tether than other stablecoins."

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"I think DeepSeek could be one of the moments of change where it makes it more possible for product-genius founders to build on top of AI."

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"Pinterest where I was, Snap, Instagram — the CEOs weren't technical at all. They were product geniuses."

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"Do you know the Five Temptations of a CEO, that book? Incredible book. The hardest temptation is a founder is attracted to being a CEO because of status, and then you don't do the things that you need to do in order to build the best company possible."

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"I'm on the board of a company called Chainalysis, which is just — so I've had a kind of seat in the crypto space."

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"I'm on the board of a company called Agenteo, which is a marketplace for YouTube creators and brands. With LLMs, Agenteo's able to automate a lot of the things that have held this market back and they're truly having liquidity."