About this episode

Russ d’Sa discusses the shift towards voice-driven interfaces and shares insights on scaling challenges faced by LiveKit.

Russ d’Sa (CEO & Co-founder @ LiveKit) joins the show to deconstruct the "Product Paradigm Shift" toward voice-driven interfaces and agent-centric UX . We dive into LiveKit’s high-stakes scaling lessons: from powering OpenAI and Character AI’s voice mode, how they navigated real time bottlenecks to hit the next level of scale, the architectural necessity of a multi-cloud strategy, and the foundations of a co-founder relationships that can effectively blend engineering & business strategy.

People in this episode

Guest: Russ d’Sa

Topics covered

• voice-driven interfaces
• agent-centric UX
• scaling challenges
• multi-cloud strategy
• co-founder relationships
• engineering and business strategy

Keywords

• voice-first AI
• scaling lessons
• real-time bottlenecks
• multi-cloud architecture
• co-founder dynamics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: LiveKit, OpenAI, Character AI

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