Just Go Grind #192: Swupnil Sahai, Co-Founder & CEO of SwingVision, a Company Building A.I. for Athletes, on Developing Bleeding Edge Technology, Getting Andy Roddick and James Blake as Investors, and Working for Elon Musk at Tesla
Swupnil Sahai is the Co-Founder & CEO of SwingVision and previously worked on the autopilot team at Tesla. SwingVision is building A.I. for athletes. Their app provides real-time, on-device video analysis and coaching using proprietary A.I. on just a single smartphone. They were recently featured in the Apple 2020 Fall Keynote event and are backed by investors Andy Roddick, James Blake and Techstars.
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Some of the Topics Covered by Swupnil Sahai in this Episode
- Getting featured in the Apple Keynote
- What SwingVision is and how it got started
- Pivoting from an Apple Watch app to an app for your iPhone or tablet
- Making a decision to leave Tesla to start SwingVision
- Swupnil's experience working on the autopilot team at Tesla... 10 feet from Elon Musk's desk
- Why Swupnil's parents were so supportive of his decision to leave Tesla and start SwingVision
- Getting Andy Roddick and James Blake as investors in SwingVision
- How Swupnil explains such a technical product to people who aren't experts
- How Swupnil has gone about customer acquisition
- The team behind SwingVision and how Swupnil has grown it over time
- Prioritization and how Swupnil looks at who to partner with
- Swupnil's experience in the Techstars accelerator and why he decided to go through it in the first place
- How Swupnil iterates on the product itself to make it easier to use
- Gamification and how they implement it with SwingVision
- How Swupnil consistently gathers user feedback for SwingVision
- Pricing and how Swupnil figured it out for SwingVision so far
- The transition from employee to founder
- What Swupnil learned from Elon Musk
- Some of Swupnil's favorite books
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