Blake Anderson

I think that there's a lot of value there, a lot of value to be created as well as a lot of value to be captured. People who want to learn languages are generally pretty high intent. So I think that that'd be a pretty awesome one to build.

Yeah, this is exactly what people said to me when we were building CalAI. People are like, dude, my fitness pal is so big. They're going to build in this space. And my answer was, well, they won't work as hard as us. Their incentives internally are not aligned to the point where they will be able to iterate and progress as quickly as us. So here's what I mean by that.

Yeah, this is exactly what people said to me when we were building CalAI. People are like, dude, my fitness pal is so big. They're going to build in this space. And my answer was, well, they won't work as hard as us. Their incentives internally are not aligned to the point where they will be able to iterate and progress as quickly as us. So here's what I mean by that.

Yeah, this is exactly what people said to me when we were building CalAI. People are like, dude, my fitness pal is so big. They're going to build in this space. And my answer was, well, they won't work as hard as us. Their incentives internally are not aligned to the point where they will be able to iterate and progress as quickly as us. So here's what I mean by that.

The engineers at MyFitnessPal, like MyFitnessPal to begin with, has been like traded back and forth, sold so many times that the people that are doing the groundwork don't like probably don't have that much equity, you know? And so the engineers don't care that much. Like they're just kind of doing their job. similar with the social media managers.

The engineers at MyFitnessPal, like MyFitnessPal to begin with, has been like traded back and forth, sold so many times that the people that are doing the groundwork don't like probably don't have that much equity, you know? And so the engineers don't care that much. Like they're just kind of doing their job. similar with the social media managers.

The engineers at MyFitnessPal, like MyFitnessPal to begin with, has been like traded back and forth, sold so many times that the people that are doing the groundwork don't like probably don't have that much equity, you know? And so the engineers don't care that much. Like they're just kind of doing their job. similar with the social media managers.

And so our CalAIs, so calorie estimations based on images are just significantly better than MyFitnessPal. We have a pretty robust system built out at this point. In addition, we're pioneering new ways of marketing on social media. I would wager that the same pretty much applies to Duolingo. Now, I wouldn't be surprised if their engineering team was a lot better. significantly higher valuation.

And so our CalAIs, so calorie estimations based on images are just significantly better than MyFitnessPal. We have a pretty robust system built out at this point. In addition, we're pioneering new ways of marketing on social media. I would wager that the same pretty much applies to Duolingo. Now, I wouldn't be surprised if their engineering team was a lot better. significantly higher valuation.

And so our CalAIs, so calorie estimations based on images are just significantly better than MyFitnessPal. We have a pretty robust system built out at this point. In addition, we're pioneering new ways of marketing on social media. I would wager that the same pretty much applies to Duolingo. Now, I wouldn't be surprised if their engineering team was a lot better. significantly higher valuation.

Now that said, Duolingo is the go-to application for language learning right now. But if you can figure out just like a few percent changes for people to learn languages in different ways, and then some novel distribution strategies for that, Duolingo is worth like, what, $10 billion?

Now that said, Duolingo is the go-to application for language learning right now. But if you can figure out just like a few percent changes for people to learn languages in different ways, and then some novel distribution strategies for that, Duolingo is worth like, what, $10 billion?

Now that said, Duolingo is the go-to application for language learning right now. But if you can figure out just like a few percent changes for people to learn languages in different ways, and then some novel distribution strategies for that, Duolingo is worth like, what, $10 billion?

If you can, like I said, take just 1% of that market share, you immediately have an application worth $100 million. And I think that for the same reason that Duolingo is so big, there's so few people trying, which just makes it so much easier to succeed when applying these sort of new wave tactics.

If you can, like I said, take just 1% of that market share, you immediately have an application worth $100 million. And I think that for the same reason that Duolingo is so big, there's so few people trying, which just makes it so much easier to succeed when applying these sort of new wave tactics.

If you can, like I said, take just 1% of that market share, you immediately have an application worth $100 million. And I think that for the same reason that Duolingo is so big, there's so few people trying, which just makes it so much easier to succeed when applying these sort of new wave tactics.

Yeah, creating new market share. I totally agree. I think that that is a... To dive a little bit deeper into something I'd mentioned earlier, like I think that a lot of these apps are just pioneering new ways for people to learn and improve themselves with the use of AI. I think it's a pretty incredible personalized learning tool.

Yeah, creating new market share. I totally agree. I think that that is a... To dive a little bit deeper into something I'd mentioned earlier, like I think that a lot of these apps are just pioneering new ways for people to learn and improve themselves with the use of AI. I think it's a pretty incredible personalized learning tool.

Yeah, creating new market share. I totally agree. I think that that is a... To dive a little bit deeper into something I'd mentioned earlier, like I think that a lot of these apps are just pioneering new ways for people to learn and improve themselves with the use of AI. I think it's a pretty incredible personalized learning tool.

And when it first, ChatGPT first came out in like December, November of 2022, there was a lot of speculation about the future of AI tutors and within AI or AI learning languages or personal training, that sort of thing. My inclination is that at the very minimum, the first step of this is just AI tools, AI apps that do this as opposed to being like a framed as a tutor.