BigStory Podcast Davit Baghdasaryan, Arto Minasyan, Arto Yeritsyan

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

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

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

(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

(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

(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