Shawn Wang: belief

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…it's actually the biggest offices in London. Surprising because I think of it as like a U. S. defense company. Then you started Moonshot for nine months, which is pretty important in your journey. I'll bring it up to Wondercraft. You started Wondercraft in April of this year, and it's been about five months going through YC in the winter batch. Summer of 22. Okay, cool. What is WonderCraft? Nice. podcast builder that uses hyper realistic AI voices to create podcasts and make that whole podcast creation process super simple. Right. Right? So super simple example is you can, you know, you publish a bunch of blogs. Yes. You can take that blog, put it in there, it'll just convert it to an audio friendly format that people can listen to. It's just that sometimes it's a bit more efficient to listen to things rather than read them. What is it strives to be is a little slightly different because what it really strives to be is it strives to be this platform with the mission of expanding access to content. And I mean this in a variety of different ways, right? Some people just are able to consume content, you know, we have this whole debate in education, it's like, are you a visual learner or an audio learner? What do you do? People just consume content better in different ways. I, I'm a visual learner. I need to see things. So for me, actually, it's sometimes a little better to read the blog. But! If we're just talking about, like, I want to get a lot of information, podcasts are great because you can just do them while doing something else. There's a reason that podcast functionality is so natively embedded in all these smart speakers. It's just because, like, you're doing anything at home, just put on a podcast. So really what we're trying to do is, podcast is the first instantiation of that, which is, like, how do we expand access to content? But it expands so much more, right? You know, instead of just going to, I don't know, we talked about this like blog to podcast, you can go blog to video. You can go podcast to blog, you can go podcast to Twitter. Like, the permutations are frankly endless, basically depends on how many platforms there are that people consume things on. But that's essentially what we do. The use cases for this are pretty interesting. The one that we like just see immediate value in is just this ability to translate the content that you already have. Into other forms of content. If we just stick with that blog post example again, Right, you've written, so, so, you know, a lot of companies might have this content team that focuses a lot on producing quality blog posts. Blog posts, you know, they're good for SEO and whatnot, but they're not, sometimes they, you know, they don't really achieve a specific goal or outcome that you want. One thing we see that is really useful for podcasts is they actually carry a lot more weight in credentializing you as a thought leader or your company as a thought leader. But like, you know, we spent the last 50 minutes trying to set up this room to record the podcast. So it's, it's not easy. And it's a very synchronous process, right? Me and you have to find the time to go and sit here and record this. You have to come up with questions, I have to come up with answers, right?…

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