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This surprised me: There have only been TWO venture-backed outcomes >$10B in New York since the 90s (Datadog, MongoDB). During that time there have been THREE >$1T outcomes in the Bay Area (NVIDIA, Google, Meta), and an uncountable # of $10B+ outcomes.

Thanks for having me Jacob Effron!

These guys were among the earliest of all the startups we've funded to understand what AI was going to make possible, and they have executed perfectly on that early insight.

Thank you for having me @jchatterleyCNN!

Like many companies, Speak took several hard years of slogging before things started to work. We never gave up because we had strong conviction that it was inevitable all humans would be learning from AI tutors within 5-10 years. So many founders give up prematurely because

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Bloom 2 sigma + The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson were the main inspirations behind Speak!

Fun fact: Speak has 65% brand recognition in South Korea and close to 10% of the population has used us to improve their English fluency. Was great talking to Ben Quazzo on how we got our start there!