alexa_throwaway

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   by alexa_throwaway 2y ago

   Thanks for writing that. It may be that Alexa made the right decision to pass (time will tell, you're right the valuation itself isn't the best barometer) but the point of my post was simply that the Alexa leadership team felt ver
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   by alexa_throwaway 2y ago

   We're still tiny compared to Alexa, but we have over a million MAUs so we're not tiny for a startup. At present, Alexa itself is not a direct competitor, although a large and growing use-case for Alexa skills would benefit directl
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   by alexa_throwaway 2y ago

   It's not Alexa hooked up to some gimmicky LLM. I don't want to give away too many details given that this is a throwaway account, but the way Alexa's ecosystem works is they have "skills" Alexa users can instantiate
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   by alexa_throwaway 2y ago

   Throwaway here. I'm the CEO of a fast-growing AI startup. Alex asked to meet with us about a year ago (when we were about 1/10th the size), and after asking us to prepare lots of materials, they indicated they wanted to buy us or