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Co-founder @ Volley: makers of top voice AI games like "20 Questions", "Yes Sire", and "Jeopardy". Co-host of the Cerebral Valley AI Summit
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Big news for the week—my daughter, Penelope Pearl Child, was born!
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Excited to officially announce
@volleygames
’s $55M Series C, co-led by Microsoft's
@M12vc
and
@lightspeedvp
!
We founded Volley with the belief that talking is the easiest way to communicate, and that games are the most fun way to learn about the world.
In the last few years,
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I'm proud to announce that after 6 years of work,
@volleying
is a real company. We have a sign in the heart of Cerebral Valley.
Just in time for Cerebral Valley AI Summit, part II.
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Proud to announce Volley’s first LLM-driven game, the classic party experience “20 Questions”. Say “open Volley Games” to your Alexa to play.
You can ask any question your heart desires—“is it bigger than a breadbox?” “Would it win in a fight against a duck-sized horse?”. More
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We are hot!! Excited to be in the top 75 on the AI Heat index. And one of the few consumer product AI companies.
A new wave of generative AI companies is already here. But they're invisible on market maps that over-index on incumbents.
So we tapped our network to reveal the up & comers. Early-stage companies showing signs of future greatness.
Meet the AI Hot 75.
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I am excited to announce that we have just invented VolleyCoin (VYC) at Volley and our balance sheet is $8 billion stronger.
Future looks bright
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Excited to add Jeopardy, Millionaire, Pyramid, and Wheel of Fortune to the Volley voice game network! Lots of cool developments to come
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Excited to be working with the great team at Voxion, including on some already released products on Alexa and Google ("5th Grader", "Family Duel"), with more to come!
@matthewgillen32
@arosenberg3660
@ryan_fornara
Voice tech startup Volley acquires Voxion to expand its lead in immersive visual and entertainment experiences on voice platforms
@mlchild
#Acquisition
#TechNews
#TechStartups
#BREAKING
#BreakingNews
#Voxion
#VoiceTech
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Climbing the leaderboard
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Happy almost new year! We have a new website and it is badass
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CVAI V2 was more than twice the fun. A great time to interview
@clattner_llvm
@may_habib
@ajratner
and an incredible group of folks in the audience.
Thanks to everyone who made it possible
@Volleying
It was an absolute pleasure to host the 2nd Cerebral Valley AI Summit with
@mlchild
and
@jameswilsterman
I just published my reflections on yesterday here:
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In my unbiased opinion, this is the best use of Alexa
Family game night can happen any time with Alexa Games. For once you won’t have to call the kids - the kids will call you!
Finding your perfect game night game is as easy as 🗣 “Alexa, let’s play a game!”
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Customer service
@Airbnb
feels like a criminal enterprise. They are refusing to refund an accidental $2,000 booking that I cancelled within 25 minutes. Keep gettin dem checks!
Interesting that airlines are federally required to honor 24 hour cancellations but not Airbnb!
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Proud to be featured on the new Lightspeed gaming site! Which is, frankly, one of the coolest-looking sites I've ever seen.
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Thrilled to announce America's greatest trivia show is live and voice-controlled on Roku!
As a trivia nerd, I can confirm this is the closest thing to going on the game show—buzz in with the remote, call out categories, say "What is" like a real pro:
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@nikitabier
If your product has left TestFlight for the App Store, you should probably quit raising until you can get it back
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Excited to announce CEREBRAL VALLEY NEW YORK—the East Coast summer edition of our ground-breaking event. AI companies frequently sell for over $1 billion at the afterparty.
Come to meet the best AI founders and investors from NYC, Europe, and beyond!
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We got a kitten!
She likes sleeping in my backpack which is a good sign, I think.
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Learned a ton from some amazing founders who are building full-stack AI products. Not picks and shovels, but digging for gold!
From
#CerebralValley
: Watch
@Volleying
@mlchild
interview
@lishali88
@medha_basu
@chunonline
@CarolineCZhang
A panel of YC founders chat with Volley CEO Max Child about "digging for gold" in this new AI boom.
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@johncoogan
You need a 50% increase on mobile to break even…and you don’t have “control of your destiny”. It’s possible churn is significantly higher as well. I’m not sure either way but this is a highly motivated group of users so could be selected well to checkout online. We’ll see!
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Elon is a great guest but Clubhouse interviews continue to feel like listening to a podcast interview with a bad host
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The real joy of upgrading to a computer with 64 (!) GB of ram is seeing my email client grab 33 of them
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We’ve got 2 of 9 of Bustle’s favorite Alexa games, seven still to go…
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My daily schedule, for reference
Elizabeth Holmes's daily schedule
Circa 2005–2009
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Awesome to meet and connect with killer AI founders in NYC!
just hosted a founder breakfast with
@amytongwu
&
@venkyganesan
(
@MenloVentures
) +
@mlchild
&
@jameswilsterman
(
@Volleying
).
awesome way to kickoff Cerebral Valley New York festivities this week.
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Using Vision Pro for 2 hours has reconfirmed my view that voice interfaces are the future
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My 65+ parents went to a grocery store with vaccines on hand yesterday, but they were refused shots because of inane prioritization/restrictions.
The store gave out a grand total of 20 vaccines all day, with plenty left over.
CA politics is literally killing people
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We're in the endgame now
hey gpt4, make me an iPhone app that recommends 5 new movies every day + trailers + where to watch.
My ambitions grew as we went along 👇
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Best Volley annual tradition—750 Thanksgiving thank-you notes from team members to each other!
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Our new game, "Magic Word", for Google Assistant, is so good that VentureBeat was willing to put gifycats above the fold in a serious news story. Try it out!!
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Voice control is the future of AI
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Volley has pivoted to B2B SaaS
We’re playing song quiz in the office because it’s Friday afternoon
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SUPER PUMPED to host an event at SXSW Saturday to show off all of our awesome Volley games (and some new surprises)!
Collabing with
@EricNewcomer
on live events, games, prizes, and secret musical guests—RSVP here:
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My cofounder
@jameswilsterman
is getting cold email from growth funds I've never heard of.
SF is so back
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My hottest web3 take is that if someone made a wallet as easy to use as Coinbase they’d dominate the market
Ergo this will probably end up being Coinbase
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Very strong move imo
Volley Buys 'Question of the Day' Developer in Multi-Million Dollar Deal - Strong move.
@voicebotai
@EricHSchwartz
Congrats to
@WilsonJoel
@SarahAndrewWils
@mlchild
@jameswilsterman
. More consolidation to come.
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Cerebral Valley AI Summit
@Volleying
office is/was the nexus of activity in Silicon Valley. Can confirm that the bucatini at Rich Table afterparty will convince you to do great things.
Looking forward to the future working with
@EricNewcomer
!!!
@LuisaRBeltran
@FortuneMagazine
reveals that Databricks CEO
@alighodsi
and MosaicML CEO
@NaveenGRao
first met at Cerebral Valley, the event I hosted in March with my friends at Volley.
Turned into a $1.3B deal
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CVNY gonna be amazing!
Apply for tix here:
I��m thrilled to announce our first set of speakers for Cerebral Valley New York on June 27
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Special thanks as well to Causeway Media Partners, Amazon Alexa Fund,
@BITKRAFTVC
@ycombinator
@BoostVC
@alumniventures
Waverley
@GaingelsVC
Riverside
@joinrepublic
@SamsungNext
and our investors along the way!
@amplifyla
A_Capital
@NFX
@rainfall
@AdvancitCapital
@svangel
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Launching audiophile-quality tracks as a big new feature is the canary in the coal mine for any music service, imo
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Am I slightly triggered when someone who asked to meet sends me a calendly?
I regret to admit I am
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I wish VC associates would put their college graduation dates on LinkedIn.
Admit how young you are, cowards
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Chatted with
@mignano
on
@lightspeedvp
’s AI podcast, "Generative Now" about many things, including my career in tech (and food) and how Generative AI is impacting
@Volleying
’s strategy. On the full episode we talk about:
- how I went from a restaurant critic (yes, for real) to
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FUNDING SECURED!!
What to know:
1/ Fed is backstopping all SVB depositors. Everyone gets access to everything tomorrow. Crisis averted.
2/ There does not yet appear to be a deal to sell any part of SVB.
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Super excited to host the inaugural Cerebral Valley AI Summit!
The lineup is epic—our friend and cohost
@EricNewcomer
is interviewing some amazing founders, builders, and investors.
Apply to come! March 30 in Hayes Valley.
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Announcing a new speaker at Cerebral Valley AI Summit! President
@AnthropicAI
Daniela Amodei
@DanielaAmodei
Super excited for 3/30
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For the record I wasn’t reading off the card the whole time. Great product discussion with
@keithpeiris
!
@mlchild
chatting with
@keithpeiris
(Tome)
Multimodal storytelling and the ease of it is just going to continue to grow.
And how are they using their $81B raise? Layout engine. Charting engine. Diagraming engine. Lots of models!
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It’s like all-star weekend, I’m just here to see dunks
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Apocalyptic thunderstorm in Cerebral Valley right now. I weep for the AIs that will miss out on training today
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@nikitabier
If I hold a national security issue in my right hand you can’t see the monopoly concealed in my left
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If daily actives are shrinking and someone offers $3000 per, I’d take the call
SCOOP: Twitter held talks to acquire Clubhouse for about $4 billion (prior to the potential fundraise at that price)
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For those, like me, trying to decide if the right word is “mob”, “insurrection”, “rebellion”, “terrorism”...
The right word is “treason”.
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“You can’t overtake 15 cars in sunny weather, but you can when it’s raining.” —Ayrton Senna
—Twitter VCs
BUT Senna died in f1
BUT not in the rain
BUT Verstappen easily passes 15 people in the dry
AND no one passes in the rain anymore
I’m reeling. Someone tell me what to think
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Hard to keep pace with the speed of AI progress
Everyone is asking about Siri, AI and WWDC on Monday. One item I haven’t mentioned in a while has been a major project to drop the “Hey” from “Hey Siri.” I’d look out for that possibility next week.
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If you think this was the key insight of the original iPhone, you do not have good product sense
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Just tried Dispo, never have I ever been so convinced that every age group wants the same apps but without the old people
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Respect to Siri’s comedic timing but this was not actually the CDC page I was looking for
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Based on my baby’s preferences, someone should make children’s books that can be both read AND eaten
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Having now had a kid for 2 months I can say—the Beatles is a kid’s band
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Been amazing to work with Brayton and Boost the whole way!
The next great gaming company will be powered by voice 📢
Congrats
@VolleyGames
(led by
@mlchild
&
@jameswilsterman
) on the $55m raise 💰
If you want to join the fastest growing AI gaming company 👉
(
@BoostVC
was the first check! + doubled down 2x)
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Fun story to be a part of, and excited to hear about all the cool companies investing in voice-controlled & audio entertainment for families!
Parents are wary of screen time. Kids are bored. Solution?: voice games.
My story exploring their growth here:
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Staggering lack of competition in entertainment
The striking thing about this list, to me, is the preponderance of software companies. Making physical stuff is hard. But don't let that deter you, if that's what you're interested in. If things go right for Helion, it could be the biggest of the lot.
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The true meaning of Christmas
So annoying when everyone else is burst at 9:30pm and all I want to do is play Heads Up and play Song Quiz on Alexa 😂😭
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Excited to be on this elite list of gaming companies alongside Nintendo, Ubisoft, and Activision Blizzard. We are just a TINY bit earlier in our journey at Volley...
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The future of social media is increasingly awesome content from people you don’t know (Tiktok) and incredibly boring content from those you do (BeReal)
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This year’s CVAI will be the best ever—we’ve got a killer lineup with more to come. So excited.
Apply today:
Stoked to announce we're hosting the Cerebral Valley AI Summit on Wednesday, November 20, in San Francisco.
We're sharing today that
@AnthropicAI
CEO Dario Amodei,
@databricks
CEO
@alighodsi
, and
@scale_AI
CEO
@alexandr_wang
will be speaking
Applications are now open!
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No bill is perfect, but Biden just signed the biggest or second-biggest piece of progressive legislation in my lifetime
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