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Madrona Managing Director Karan Mahandru and Scott Stephenson, Co-Founder and CEO of @Deepgram a foundational AI company building a voice AI platform providing APIs for speech-to-text and text-to-speech. Scott and Karan dive into the realities of building a foundational AI company, meaning they're building models and modalities from scratch. They discuss the challenges of moving from prototype to production, how startups need to out-fox the hyperscalers while also partnering with them, and, of course, how Scott went from being a particle physicist working on detecting dark matter to building large language models for speech recognition. This is a must-listen for anyone building in AI.