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Othello has raised $8M to train specialized AI models that guide sales reps during live sales calls.
Othello predicts the next best thing a sales rep should say during a call and delivers it on screen in under 500 milliseconds.
Today Microsoft, Capital One, Lyft, and 30+ of the es leverage Othello during live meetings.
Until now, it has not been possible to intelligently augment sales calls in real-time. To solve this, Othello has developed a series of specialized models that deliver highly accurate, contextually relevant recommendations while maintaining near real-time latency.
Othello predicts the next best thing a sales rep should say during a call and delivers it on screen in under 500 milliseconds.
Today Microsoft, Capital One, Lyft, and 30+ of the es leverage Othello during live meetings.
Until now, it has not been possible to intelligently augment sales calls in real-time. To solve this, Othello has developed a series of specialized models that deliver highly accurate, contextually relevant recommendations while maintaining near real-time latency.
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why is Uncle Junior talking shit
JUST IN: SpaceX needs at least $200 billion to enter wireless once you add up spectrum, towers, and antennas, according to Deutsche Telekom CEO, who says "welcome to the party"
Tim Höttges (CEO): “And by the way, I take his attempt serious. He has now bought 76 megahertz of e have 400 megahertz. So if you now say, okay, he can buy the spectrum prospectively, do your math. These are kind of triple digit billions, which are needed to gain the spectrum position. Okay, if he has the money, go for it."
"Then he has to build a network. I can tell you, we have 85,000 towers. No, he can rent towers, no question. But this is another 20 billion to 30 billion, which are required. Put antennas on it. Okay, you can buy antennas and you can get maybe even in a cheaper way or you construct it in a new way, but you need money for that."
"So therefore, my assessment is that SpaceX at least if they want to play in that industry needs at least minimum 200 billion, but even beyond that to play in an industry, which we have, let’s say, professionalized over the last twenty years. Okay, welcome to the party.”
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The only thing more incredible than this incredible product is the incredible team
Computer activity, stored over time, becomes human traces: a record of the actions, decisions, and context behind knowledge work.
Today we’re releasing HelixCove, a dataset of work unfolding across an organization.
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Used Othello to answer every question in a @BusinessInsider interview.
They decided to turn a snippet into a full-on feature!
Selling with Othello is like driving with GPS.
Only a matter of time until it becomes ubiquitous, and we forget there was ever a world without it.
Clock starts now...
They decided to turn a snippet into a full-on feature!
Selling with Othello is like driving with GPS.
Only a matter of time until it becomes ubiquitous, and we forget there was ever a world without it.
Clock starts now...
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Our seed round was led by Owl Capital and a16z @speedrun. Thx to Business Insider for the piece.
businessinsider.com/othello-raises…
businessinsider.com/othello-raises…
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And special thanks to our early backers and supporters: @jfonstad, @Tocelot, @tkexpress11, @cyantist, @DeanSysman, @Bouazizalex, @chrislarsensf, @Thom_Wolf, @andyfang, @Marian_L_Tupy, @zeeg, @fabricegrinda, @waseem_s, @ryanking, @Lborenstein, @scooterbraun, @colinevans, @benji_stern, @pbouaziz, @SpencerChandlee, @peterjgiordano, @ZanderByers, @Nicknovarro_, @NealMintz1, @nclarksf, and @SVRohr.
Also incredibly grateful to the mentors whose advice helped me start Othello: @MikeSievert, @HowardMarksBook, @BillRMcDermott, Craig Jelinek, and David Burritt.
Also incredibly grateful to the mentors whose advice helped me start Othello: @MikeSievert, @HowardMarksBook, @BillRMcDermott, Craig Jelinek, and David Burritt.
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Every investor in my first co Cicero.ai saw this as our thesis - clear as day.
Sometimes the writing on the walls is so clear, but people still can’t read it.
Sometimes the writing on the walls is so clear, but people still can’t read it.
Character was a really weird company
- Started as a lab that found extreme PMF in a market they hated
- Leadership team bailed because they wanted to focus on AI-research (Windsurf #1)
- New leadership team comes in but struggles to hire great talent. Lots of people are ashamed of working for the company so they leave it as Stealth on LinkedIn, including C-levels
- New CEO does a great job at understanding they are a fandom company but rest of the company still believes their moat are "models"
- Never explore original IP despite having lots of analytics and creators on the platform
- CEO goes on fundraising roadshow, bails to work at Disney instead (Windsurf #2)
- Rest of the leadership is tired, declares bankruptcy to let Disney buy them too for cheap
RIP character, you died because of natural laws you were completely powerless to understand or intuit
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In college, I built Cicero.ai. Same premise as Character.AI, except we owned exclusive NIL rights to the characters, including names like Richard Dawkins and Larry King.
We did over $1M in revenue and had 60+ celeb NILs, despite being 100x smaller than Character.AI.
Seeing Disney pay $20M for parts of Character.AI is interesting. Our IP rights alone have millions in lifetime value and would likely fetch much much more than that today.
We did over $1M in revenue and had 60+ celeb NILs, despite being 100x smaller than Character.AI.
Seeing Disney pay $20M for parts of Character.AI is interesting. Our IP rights alone have millions in lifetime value and would likely fetch much much more than that today.
Character․AI files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US, agrees to sell some assets to Disney for $20M, and plans to keep operating as it completes the sale (Rhea Rose Abraham / Reuters)
(Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
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Free pro tip -
I'm a fairly social creature - have been my entire life - and the single best indicator of whether I'm going to jive with somebody is whether they have binged and love the show Entourage.
If you are a chiller, I recommend you ask that next time you meet somebody. It will break the ice 10x.
I'm a fairly social creature - have been my entire life - and the single best indicator of whether I'm going to jive with somebody is whether they have binged and love the show Entourage.
If you are a chiller, I recommend you ask that next time you meet somebody. It will break the ice 10x.
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