Josh Mohrer, founder and CEO of Wave, shares insights from his transition from leading Uber in New York City to launching an AI-powered meeting transcription app. He discusses the power of AI in empowering solo entrepreneurs and how it helped him learn coding. Josh emphasizes the importance of user feedback in app development and the challenges of balancing human touch with AI in customer support. He also explores the evolving role of AI in coding and the future landscape for solo ventures in the tech industry.
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Back to Building
Josh Mohrer transitioned from VC back to an operating role at Levels Health, where he rediscovered his passion for building.
The improved tooling in tech, like Retool, made everything much easier compared to his Uber days.
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Wave's Origin
Josh Mohrer used ChatGPT to learn coding, focusing on summarization as the killer app of AI.
He built Wave, a mobile-first app for recording, transcribing, and summarizing audio, starting with personal use cases.
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Learning by Doing
Learning by doing is crucial, even with AI coding assistance.
Josh Mohrer emphasized that he learned significantly throughout the process of building Wave with AI.
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AI is rapidly expanding what we can get done in a day. So, can entrepreneurs leveraging AI start companies of one? In this episode of Generative Now, host Michael Magnano, partner at Lightspeed, sits down with Josh Mohrer, the founder and CEO of Wave, a revolutionary AI app that records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings and conversations. Josh talks about his entrepreneurial journey, transitioning from running Uber's New York operations to building a successful solo venture. He shares how he leveraged AI technologies like GPT-3 to learn to code and develop Wave, the challenges and advantages of being a solo founder, and his hands-on approach to customer support.
Episode Chapters: (00:00) Introduction (00:31) Josh's Journey with Uber (09:29) Transition to Building Wave with AI (24:41) Embracing the Solo Entrepreneurial Journey (25:26) Balancing Expectations and Investor Influence (26:20) The Role of AI in Engineering and Development (27:17) Improving App Performance and User Experience (29:03) The Future of Solo Ventures and AI-Driven Companies (31:54) AI's Impact on Coding and Development Practices (35:53) Leveraging AI for Customer Support and Internal Tools (38:59) How Josh Leverages AI Tools Stay in touch: www.lsvp.com X: https://twitter.com/lightspeedvp LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lightspeed-venture-partners/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lightspeedventurepartners/ Subscribe on your favorite podcast app: generativenow.co Email: generativenow@lsvp.com The content here does not constitute tax, legal, business or investment advice or an offer to provide such advice, should not be construed as advocating the purchase or sale of any security or investment or a recommendation of any company, and is not an offer, or solicitation of an offer, for the purchase or sale of any security or investment product. For more details please see lsvp.com/legal.
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