My friend Tim Novikoff joins us as the founder of Super Teacher, a tutoring app for children. This app is developed collaboratively by teachers and engineers. Previously, he served as the CEO of FLY Labs, an editing app, acquired by Google. Afterward, he worked as a Product Manager for Applied AI at Google Photos. Check out Super Teacher for free at https://getsuperteacher.com/ and use the promo code “success” for a 20% discount on the premium version.
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction and Background
03:36 Transitioning from Academia to Entrepreneurship
05:52 The Importance of Networking
12:25 Sticking to Established Fundraising Structures
17:12 Focusing on Core Competencies
17:50 Behind The Scenes At Google I/O
23:37 Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Dealing With Product Managers
25:50 Google Photos & Working With AI Research Teams
28:10 Saying No To Half-Baked Technology
29:51 Google’s AI Team Shopping Tech To Google PMs
33:04 Humane AI Pin, It Misses Expectations
39:07 Super Teacher Intro
41:35 The Importance of Tutoring in Education
46:46 Super Teacher: Making Tutoring Affordable
49:11 The Cutest Ad Of All Time
50:30 The Tech Stack Behind Super Teacher
55:24 Human In The Loop Tutoring
56:57 Creating Two Products
01:00:15 AI Tutoring Limitations For GPT-4