Tanay is the CEO and co-founder of Wispr Flow, my favorite app to dictate to AI 10x faster than typing. I asked him to do a live tutorial on how to get the most out of AI voice dictation, how his brain-to-text device reads your thoughts without speaking, and how he built an AI product that has 70% annual retention (unheard of!) by NOT focusing on ARR.
Tanay and I talked about:
(00:00) Why typing 5 hours a day is killing your productivity
(06:29) Live tutorial: Using voice to draft emails, write code, and more
(09:19) The brain-to-text device that reads your thoughts without speaking
(16:24) How to teach Wispr Flow your writing style across every app
(22:05) Why Tanay studies gaming instead of software for inspiration
(29:03) "I told my board: We're killing ARR as our North Star metric"
(31:36) Why "agents" is the dumbest term in AI (and what matters instead)
(35:55) What motivated young Tanay to steal his mom's laptop to code
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Get the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/full-tutorial-how-to-use-voice-ai-to-write-and-code-faster-wispr-flow-tanay
Where to find Tanay:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tankots/
Get Wispr Flow: https://ref.wisprflow.ai/peter-yang
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