Ep 19: Tome CEO Keith Peiris on Disrupting Powerpoint and Scaling To Millions of Users
Sep 28, 2023
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Tome CEO Keith Peiris discusses disrupting PowerPoint, AI tourists, hardware costs, enterprise scale, pricing strategies, and over/under-hyped projects. Co-hosts provide insights on building enterprise products, model evaluation, and favorite Tome projects.
Tome focuses on conversational UI for efficient content creation, aligning with user expectations.
TON aims to become a brain computing platform, simplifying ideas and revolutionizing content creation.
Deep dives
TON: Transforming Storytelling with AI
TON, a multimodal storytelling company founded by Keith Paris, uses generative image and text models to enable users in creating diverse content like presentations and story outlines. The company boasts impressive user numbers and funding, signaling its growth and potential. By applying a first principles approach to AI-powered storytelling, TON aims to differentiate itself from traditional tools like PowerPoint, focusing on conversational UI to enhance user experience.
Designing User-Centric Conversational UI at TON
TON's emphasis on designing a conversational UI that caters to user needs reveals a shift towards human-machine interactions. Understanding that adequate user input is a key factor in AI effectiveness, TON strives to align its conversational UI with user expectations, making content creation more efficient and tailored to individual requirements.
Future Vision of TON: Embracing Innovation and Integration
Keith Paris envisions TON evolving into a brain computing platform by 2035, moving beyond traditional web applications. With a focus on simplifying complex ideas and enabling seamless content creation, TON envisions a future where users can effortlessly communicate intricate concepts, potentially revolutionizing how ideas are shared and understood.
Strategic Enterprise Expansion for TON's Growth
TON's enterprise strategy involves integrating with multiple data sources to enhance content creation capabilities. By connecting with various cloud services and establishing a versatile platform that can generate diverse content, TON aims to expand its utility beyond individual users to cater to enterprise needs, offering customizable and integrative storytelling solutions.
Jacob and Pat sit down with Tome Co-Founder and CEO Keith Peiris to discuss Tome’s go-to market strategy, deciphering through the “AI tourists” to identify their ideal customer profile (ICP), and the different hardware cost considerations when reaching enterprise scale.
0:00 intro
1:35 founding Tome
5:05 designing Tome
10:30 how users want to interact with AI
12:26 teaching users how to use Tome
20:13 partnering with model providers vs. building your own
28:43 model evaluation
31:23 building an enterprise product
37:48 thinking about pricing
43:43 Keith’s favorite Tome projects
44:26 over-hyped/under-hyped
With your co-hosts:
@ericabrescia
- Former COO Github, Founder Bitnami (acq’d by VMWare)
@patrickachase
- Partner at Redpoint, Former ML Engineer LinkedIn
@jacobeffron
- Partner at Redpoint, Former PM Flatiron Health
@jordan_segall
- Partner at Redpoint
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