About this episode

Dara Ladjevardian discusses the creation of Delphi, a platform for digital minds, and the importance of human connection in a tech-driven world.

Dara Ladjevardian is the Co-Founder and CEO of Delphi, a platform that lets you create a digital version of your mind — an interactive, always-on presence that can share your knowledge, coach others, and represent you at scale. Delphi has raised $16 million in a Series A led by Sequoia, with earlier backing from Founders Fund, Lux Capital, and others. Before Delphi, Dara founded Friday, a text-based commerce tool he built and sold within a year. He previously worked as a forward-deployed engineer at C3 AI and as a product engineer at OpenStore. Sumeet Singh sits down with Dara to talk about the moment he knew he had to build Delphi, which started with trying to recreate his grandfather's mind using GPT-3. They cover why he chose LLMs over crypto and American dynamism, what it was like selling his first startup and joining OpenStore to find a mentor and co-founder, why human connection still matters when information is commoditized, how Delphi solved the trust problem that makes or breaks the entire platform, the micro-pivots that shaped the company, and what world Dara is trying to build. If you have any questions about Delphi, you can talk to Dara's digital mind here…

Topics covered

• digital minds
• LLMs
• human connection
• trust in technology
• entrepreneurship

Keywords

• Delphi
• GPT-3
• Sequoia
• Founders Fund
• Lux Capital

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