Humans Tell The Best Stories

About this episode

Laura Burkhauser discusses building a human-forward AI video company at Descript amidst a landscape of synthetic content.

In this episode, Descript CEO Laura Burkhauser talks about what it means to build a human-forward AI video company in a world flooded with synthetic content. Laura came to Descript by an unlikely path — German literature, then product management at companies like Salesforce — and became CEO because she believed in what Descript was building: tools that keep the story in human hands while AI handles everything underneath. Hear about why Descript is investing heavily in AI but not aiming to be...

People in this episode

Host: Amy Jo Kim

Guest: Laura Burkhauser

Topics covered

• AI
• video production
• storytelling
• human-centered design
• technology

Keywords

• AI video
• Descript
• human storytelling
• product management
• synthetic content

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Descript, Salesforce

Books & works: German literature

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