Ep 19: Tome CEO Keith Peiris on Disrupting Powerpoint and Scaling To Millions of Users

Jacob and Pat sit down with Tome Co-Founder and CEO Keith Peiris to discuss Tome’s go-to market strategy, deciphering through the “AI tourists” to identify their ideal customer profile (ICP), and the different hardware cost considerations when reaching enterprise scale.

0:00 intro
1:35 founding Tome
5:05 designing Tome
10:30 how users want to interact with AI
12:26 teaching users how to use Tome
20:13 partnering with model providers vs. building your own
28:43 model evaluation
31:23 building an enterprise product
37:48 thinking about pricing
43:43 Keith’s favorite Tome projects
44:26 over-hyped/under-hyped

With your co-hosts:
@ericabrescia
- Former COO Github, Founder Bitnami (acq’d by VMWare)
@patrickachase
- Partner at Redpoint, Former ML Engineer LinkedIn
@jacobeffron
- Partner at Redpoint, Former PM Flatiron Health
@jordan_segall
- Partner at Redpoint

Jacob is an AI investor at Redpoint Ventures. He's led Redpoint's investments in companies like Abridge, Physical Intelligence & Legora. Follow Jacob on Twitter (@jacobeffron).

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