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His startup powers OpenAI's Voice Mode. Last month, they became a unicorn. | Russ d’Sa, Co-Founder of LiveKit
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Summary
Russ was running a moderately successful live streaming startup. Then he got a terrifying offer from a tech giant: sell to us for cheap, or we'll crush you. He had no leverage. He was about to fold. Then he got an email from OpenAI. They had secretly built ChatGPT's voice mode on his infrastructure. Overnight, everything changed. In this episode, Russ reveals the wild story of how LiveKit became the backbone of multimodal AI, why he almost sold his previous company for parts, and how to...