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.

The podcast is in Armenian.

(01:40) 20th episode - A Milestone Episode
(03:31) Finding Work-Life Balance
(11:45) Devin's Raise and Their Demo Issues
(21:33) X.AI and Musk's Intention to Create a Truth-Seeking AI News
(27:09) Tesla's Prospects in the Self-Driving Robotaxi Market
(40:52) Two New Investments by BigStory: Audigo and ValueSense
(48:25) YC Advice: All Startups Are Badly Broken at Some Point

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