Jordan Dearsley, Founder & CEO at Vapi. Vapi enterprises deploy human-like voice agents in minutes. Whether you’re building a voice product or trying to handle millions of calls, Vapi’s reliable infrastructure and flexible APIs make it easy.
Episode Highlights:
- Jordan shares his journey from starting a company in Canada, going through Y Combinator, and pivoting multiple times before landing on Vapi.
- Jordan reflects on the challenges of building productivity apps, including fierce competition, low willingness to pay, and burnout.
- The pivotal moment when Jordan, searching for something to talk to, stitched together AI models and realized the potential of real-time AI voice agents.
- Jordan explains how Vapi evolved into an API-first voice platform, allowing seamless integration of speech-to-speech models as they improve.
- Jordan discusses the expected breakthroughs in speech-to-speech AI, why distribution remains the biggest challenge, and how Vapi is positioning itself for the future.
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