#261 – Self-Funding, Pivoting to a Better Idea, and Growing Beyond $10M with Kapil Kale of Tremendous

Hey. What's up, dude? How's it going? Hey. Hey. What's up? Have you been, checking out the progress over this AI generated art stuff? But it's gone off the rails since we last talked about using DALL E. Yeah. I saw there was a Twitter war on this. There was a comment section. I just read all of the angry comments and had a blast. What are people angry about? Is it artists? You're like, this is the death of art. Yeah. I think it's, like, a mix of artists and people who generally just don't like, like, tech giants, etcetera. Hello. Hello. Hello. How goes a couple? What's going on? Nice to see you both again. Nice to see you as well. We're talking about, AI generated art. Have you, like, seen DALL E two and, stable diffusion and all this stuff? I got yelled at, back when I was working in AngelList because, we were doing these, like, blog posts. And I was like, you know, it's so silly. Like, we we, like, pay $500, like, have someone, like, do, like, an illustration. And, actually, there's, like, this art that we can just use, and we should just use this because it's like, no licensing. And all the designers got really Yeah. Really pissed at me. It's so funny because it's like, as a computer programmer, I'm like, oh, hell yeah. This is amazing. You know, I've had some experience as a designer, but I'm not an artist at heart. So the idea that somebody can type a prompt into a computer and generate it image from scratch doesn't really threaten me. It's just really exciting to me, to be honest. But, apparently, there was some art competition. I don't know if you guys read about this. But somewhere in The US, this town was doing an art competition, and this guy used an AI to generate this very cool painting of these women dressed in Victoria era clothing, but they're on, like, a spaceship in this cool sci fi setting. And he won first place over all the real artists who had actually painted something. And so people are pissed. And they're saying it shouldn't count, and it's not real art. And he's like, well, it's just a tool. But I think it's it is real art. I think it really is just a tool. And he had to sit down and design all the prompts to get the eye to make this image and go back and edit the prompt and erase part of the image and do another prompt, etcetera, etcetera. So, like, there was some artistry involved. At some point, the AI will start generating the prompts and and then keep going to level down, and you're like, oh, okay. Alright. And then we're all slaves. So And then and then we're all Slippery slope. I'm not I'm not personally threatened. Obviously, I'm not an artist. I'm not a painter. But I looked in …