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CEO @VoiceflowHQ // The collaborative platform to build AI Agents. Helping 250k global teams. 🇨🇦/acc
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Excited to announce
@VoiceflowHQ
has raised an additional $15M led by
@OpenViewVenture
🎉
We raised our valuation by 50% this round, and our total funding is now $35M.
In typical Voiceflow fashion, we'd rather tell you about it (and demo) vs make you read a press release 👇
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Remote work = better for doing the work
In-office work = better for figuring out what work to do
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“Wow you’re a startup founder? That must be so cool. What’s it feel like?”
Me:
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Excited to announce that
@VoiceflowHQ
has raised $20M led by
@felicis
🎉
Huge thank you to our customers, community, partners and investors who got us here. Big win for Conversation Designers and their teams!
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The sheer amount of startup advice on twitter makes it impossible to not think you’re doing something wrong in someone’s eyes
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Hot takes on what Toronto needs to be a viable tech ecosystem:
- way more tech events after hours. this is part of what makes sf special. New demos, 535, and Vclub are great starts to recurring events but need more
- startups need to raise more and hire less. Focus on paying
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Got my L1 visa approved today 🇺🇸🙏
Excited to keep building Voiceflow in SF for the next couple of years!
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Voiceflow’s San Francisco office is officially open for business !
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It shouldn’t have to be an act of patriotism to choose to start a company in Canada 🇨🇦
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Hi all, the 🇨🇦/acc twitter group was created on a whim last weekend and now there's over 140 people (and counting).
So, now feels like the right time to share what this group could be. Nothing serious, this is a twitter group after all. I'll leave this up as the pinned post.
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@westoque
Most startups fail as they never find product market fit which is a function of iteration speed, not scale imo
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You don't need Sam Altman's phone number to automate customer support like Klarna ☎️
You just need
@VoiceflowHQ
⚡️
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My dad has built this community rink in Toronto every year for 16 years. No praise or help, most people just assume it’s the city of Toronto who does it.
He’s a real estate agent and doesn’t even put a sign up despite the great exposure it would give.
True passion
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This is a must-watch (volume-on)🔊
Game-changing feature for
@VoiceflowHQ
- NLP/NLU right in the browser allowing for fast, high-fidelity conversation designs and prototyping.
Exciting. One of many, many game changing features we've been working on set to launch this quarter🎉
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Excited to announce
@VoiceflowHQ
is partnering with Amazon as we democratize conversational design and the creation of voice apps.
Thanks
@bretkinsella
for the great coverage.
Voiceflow Lands Investment from the Alexa Fund -
@bretkinsella
@VoiceflowHQ
@reambraden
@alexa99
#alexafund
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Announcing
#PromptHacks23
🚀🚀🚀
Online GPT-4 hackathon with a $10,000 USD cash prize pool taking place April 28-30!
Participants of all skill levels are welcome - we have 250 spots available. Judges from
@OpenAI
,
@Intuit
,
@IndexVentures
and
@VoiceflowHQ
!
Link in thread 👇
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My only problem (not a real problem) with
@webflow
is that our design team is able to make changes to our website faster than I can update our tutorials and documentation.
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Incredibly cool to meet
@tobi
who continues to be Canadian tech’s greatest champion
Back to work 🇨🇦
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Voice is an interface. AI assistants like Alexa are a platform.
Voice to AI assistants is akin to touch screens to smartphones.
They can be independent of each other, but they work better together.
Saying voice is a platform shift is confusing because it’s just the interface.
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There’s a 100% chance I’ll wear your startup’s branded swag regularly if you hook me up with an M t-shirt 🔥
Goal is to 1) rep the ecosystem and b) avoid shopping
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Crazy new Voiceflow release - LLM Functions for Prompt Chaining 🤖⚡️
Turns Voiceflow into a visual collaborative LangChain :)
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(1/x) Sharing Voiceflow's $3M seed deck from 2019.
We were right about AI Agents being the next major platform, and wrong about timing (by ~3 years).
Thankfully, we kept building!
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The bigger a SaaS startup gets, the more vague its website H1 becomes.
Seed: Lightweight accounting software for small business owners.
Series A: Manage your books, faster.
Series F: Do anything. Dream bigger.
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We just launched AI Assist in
@VoiceflowHQ
free for all 100K+ Voiceflow users while in beta
Use the power of LLM (large language models) to create Assistants faster ⚡️
And - Freestyle - have the Assistant take over when the conversation derails!
Merry Shipmas! 🛳✨
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You can now create
@WhatsApp
Assistants with Voiceflow - takes less than a minute ⚡️⚡️⚡️
First day back, first new feature of '23! Check it out :)
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@stevenheidel
@Benioff
This is awesome. Have to respect the hustle from
@Benioff
here. Most public co CEOs aren’t DM sliding
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Voiceflow powered our 300 millionth message the other day. Not bad for an internal tool to build children's stories
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Our small team just launched our biggest ever feature! 👏
@VoiceflowHQ
now has real-time collaboration for paid teams + unlimited projects for our free users! 🎉
So excited to see our growing VF Community collaborate with each other and their stakeholders.
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Was reminded today why building a startup in Toronto is awesome 🇨🇦
Yes, there's less capital and talent than other major tech hubs like San Francisco. I split my time between SF and TO for this reason - there's just less capital and institutional knowledge for how to build
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Voiceflow hit 1,000 customers this morning 🎉
Wow! So awesome :) And, so much more to build to make Voiceflow even better for customers.
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Canadian startups were built for this downturn
They “grow up” in an environment of less capital and froth - substance > promotion. Eventually you enter the craziness of Silicon Valley, but the born mentality of “every cheque is your last cheque” persists
Long Canadian tech
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Today we saved a Waterloo new grad from the drudgery of joining Manulife as a dev. They were very happy 🫡
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New: GPT-4 and model selection in Voiceflow! 🚀
Plus - system personas, temperature and token limit settings for prompts!
Voiceflow is going to be the best collaborative prompt-chaining tool out there - stay tuned for more :)
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It’s really sad clearing out our office as we move to remote-first.
I’ve wanted to build a company since high school and an office was always the visible manifestation of that dream in my head.
We’ll have an office again, sometime.
Pictured: around same time last year
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Some random thoughts on 🇨🇦🇺🇸 while waiting for a flight to SF after spending the weekend in NYC ...
idea 1: creating a Canadian national mission
Many countries are a culture, ethnicity, and nation state all in-one. Think Japan, majority of its people are ethnically Japanese,
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Today we're launching
@VoiceflowHQ
's new brand ⚡️
This rebrand reflects our transformation over the past two years from standalone conversation design tool to fullstack conversational AI platform.
Kudos to our Marketing team for pulling this off 👏
Full post on why below 👇
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Voiceflow launched its new site today ⚡️
The new way to build digital assistants across chat, voice - and more.
Modern conversational AI teams demand a workflow that is Collaborative, Conversation Design-led and Tech-agnostic - that's Voiceflow
Check it
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Our users have never once asked us which accelerator we were a part of, who is on our cap table, or how much we’ve raised.
The only questions we get from users is on what we’ve built, and what we’re building.
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Sometimes you have to do crazy things to remind yourself you can - 3 flights in a row & no sleep PB
I set speed records tonight for hauling through SFO - and made it 🫡
Thankfully air Canada had a delay and I barely made it as they were closing jet bridge.
See everyone at the starting line. 3 legs of flights, Maui -> Toronto, heading directly to race line.
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Moving to San Francisco next week 🇺🇸
Said I was going to do it last year but hey, better late than never
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Entrepreneurship is about the persistence of effort, not the persistence of ideas.
I feel like this gets confused too much with founders spending years hitting the same wall citing persistence will prove successful. The wall won’t move, you have to.
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Voiceflow added more ARR the past week than we did the entire first year of the company 🤯
Interpret that as either we crushed this week, or had a slow first year!
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We dropped out of school to start Voiceflow and it took us about a year to start using quarters vs semesters.
Led to some confusing enterprise sales chats
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Bonkers to think in only 7 months,
@VoiceflowHQ
hosts 5500+ voice apps split between Alexa/Google Assistant (roughly 6% of Alexa’s 3rd party apps).
10 million interactions per month and counting 🎉
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When I dropped out of college to start Voiceflow my parents were horrified and said I’d be jobless
Well, I finally found a job posting I’m uniquely qualified for without a college degree
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Smartphones were initially dismissed with the killer app being only email.
Will be exciting to see what emerges from the 2.5 billion voice assistants now in the wild with a variety of hardware forms (speaker, phone, wearables, auto accessories, etc)
Nearly half the homes in the U.S. have a smart speaker. Looking forward to seeing more creative uses for these devices like My Storytime.
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The no-code movement is the "automation" of a class of jobs that have now become commoditized (basic web/app dev). It's the software equivalent to what we've seen happen in manufacturing with robots.
Yes, it's automation because the underlying code generation is automated.
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30u30 has stronger signal for those outside tech vs within it
Thiel fellowship & YC are the inverse
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You can now create Custom / General Assistant projects on
@VoiceflowHQ
🎉
This allows for the creation of assistant designs outside Alexa/Google.
Has been available to Enterprise Customers for months, now available to everyone 💫
More to come..
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So excited for tomorrow as we're shipping
@VoiceflowHQ
's most requested feature since launch ...
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We gave every Flowster $1K to visit another teammate ... and 8 flowsters pooled their $ to rent a villa in Spain!
So cool :)
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Shared my perspective on the current state and future of voice apps:
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Voice isn’t a platform shift. It’s an interface shift that unlocks usecases for platforms that leverage it, similar to a touchscreen interface and mobile.
AI assistants that are accessible via multiple channels with a layer of persistence may well be the next platform shift IMO
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Excited to announce Voiceflow will enter talks alongside our friends at Oracle and Microsoft to buy Tik Tok US.
They’ve yet to respond to my 4-figure cold email offer, but I’m confident they’ll value our Canadian companionship equivalently to any 11-figure offers.
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We're hiring a Product Designer at
@VoiceflowHQ
! 🥳
If you want to learn more about designing the industry standard creative platform for conversational interfaces, email (or DM) me!
Braden at voiceflow dot com
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Business schools need to stop telling students to network by asking to go for coffee.
A) everyone knows it’s about getting a job now
B) it’s a big time commitment and is completely one sided
Email 2 educated questions that couldn’t be googled and you’ll get a response imo
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So much of entrepreneurship is just remaining motivated for long periods of time when things are bad
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I cannot stress enough how impactful
@rrhoover
and the
@weekendfund
are as investors to their portfolio companies.
The Weekend Fund has dramatically benefitted
@VoiceflowHQ
‘s trajectory in only a short time.
Highly highly recommend!
If you're working on a side project, you should apply to Weekend Build from
@weekendfund
🔥
Excited to see more people turn their side projects in companies. Couldn't think of a better person to help than
@rrhoover
seriously apply now deadline Sunday 💯
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The atmosphere of a coffee shop is so productive.
Waiting for the day when offices start to emulate, especially with the rise of remote work.
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Playing around with Voiceflow + GPT3 ~ disregard the jarring red bubbles :)
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Sundays are for playing with new Voiceflow features - like deploying an Assistant to your website in 2-mins :)
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Cisco + Voiceflow - big win for Cisco customers interacting with Cisco's contact centres! 🎉
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Bad take imo. The benefits of having an adult mindset through living on your own or with roommates outweigh the rent savings.
If I was in my early 20s and working a remote job, I would move back in with my parents and start saving and investing as aggressively as possible.
Your future self will thank you.
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How it started, how it's going.
Our name and vision for the company has changed, but our goal to make the best product for customers hasn't.
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We have so much to launch in the coming months 🚢🚢🚢
Voiceflow, a platform for building conversational AI experiences, raises $15M by
@kyle_l_wiggers
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Last day of my first vacation since starting Voiceflow - going out with a bang hiking to 8k feet in Yosemite with friend from TO
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Meeting with sr Amazon execs this week to share thoughts on the 3p ecosystem (Alexa skills).
While voice assistants have become a smaller part of VF’s business, it’s still a very exciting channel.
Been sketching my ideas out. Trying to simplify as much as possible
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@pitdesi
Ironic that antitrust tries to promote competition in service of the consumer, but in cases like this actually hurts new business formation (competition) by reducing liquidity through exits, meaning there’s less risk appetite to fund new competitive ventures
First level thinking
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Voiceflow will be announcing some big updates tomorrow alongside our amazing partners at Google.
Can't wait!
🔔
#GoogleAssistantDevDay
IS TOMORROW
Register for FREE and join us tomorrow at 10am PT for the largest Google Assistant developer learning event of the year. We can't wait to see you!
Register now →
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Announcing
@VoiceflowHQ
workspaces 💫
Shared collaborative workspaces for teams, or teams of teams, to share and work on conversational projects.
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In college I spent half of one summer’s income buying merch for one of my startups. It was a pretty horrible idea. I vowed never to buy another banner.
I caved thanks to
@EmilyLonetto
. This looks fantastic.
See you at Project Voice!
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Unfortunately true, but this is shifting.
More and more Toronto startups are being funded by US investors and convincing engineers whom would normally emigrate to stay and build something big at home. 🚀
👇🏼tons of software engineers getting educated in Canada, then immediately head to the US. (And probably many to the Bay Area) Go immigrants! 🇨🇦
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@westoque
Hot take but bugs don’t matter much if you don’t have PMF / users. If your product doesn’t have users who love it, few will experience bugs
Finding PMF is all that matters for early stage co’s. Users reporting bugs is ironically a great sign that people want to use your product
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Writing developer documentation in our beautiful new Toronto office :)
Btw we’re hiring someone to do this full time. If that’s you, DM me!
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This 2 boardroom, 25 desk + kitchen office in San Francisco (fidi) is the same cost as our 7 desk WeWork shared office in Toronto…
What the hell. Never thought I’d see the day where it’s cheaper to be in SF than TO
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Glad we didn't rebrand to Chatflow - Voiceflow finally a great company name again 4 years later
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We have some awesome
#TeamAlexa
and
#TeamGoogle
stickers for
#ProjectVoice
! 🎉
Come say hi to the
@VoiceflowHQ
team and choose one...
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Love
@profgalloway
‘s content. Thoughtful and funny is a great combo.
Been binging his and
@karaswisher
‘s podcast on the way to work everyday. So good.
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This week begins the Canadian VC battle for who can host the most talked aboot Collision party
Good luck all
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Running an internet company has confirmed my thesis that there are a lot of really strange people out there.
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If you read every business book and weighed all their opinions equally you would be incredibly indecisive.
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VUIs won't replace GUIs outright because voice as an interface can't output data fast enough for great user experiences.
Voice will become a mainstream interface for input paired in tandem with visual interfaces.
I expect this will start with phones first, not smart speakers.
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If only there was technology out there that you didn't have to touch physically to use... oh wait
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Update: Alexa usage continues to climb amid the COVID crisis. Now 100%+ pre-March growth.
@VoiceflowHQ
hosted apps passing 900K end-user interactions / day, very close to 1M!
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Starting to see more cold emails that include a personalized video. For me at least, they have a much higher open rate.
I wonder if there's an opportunity for a product to make this process easier and more streamlined. I could see myself sending hundreds of 1 minute vids vs mail
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