Jaden Schaefer

So Audio First products, in his view, offer a chance to correct some of the mistakes.

that happened in earlier generations of consumer tech.

His idea is that we're addicted to all these bright, colorful videos and things on our screens, and so if he can make a screenless device, then people are going to be less addicted, but it can be kind of a useful thing.

What's interesting, though, is they specifically say they're not trying to create a utility or this useful thing.

They're trying to create a companion, so something that you talk to,

that you maybe use it gives you information ideas i'm so curious where this uh companion goes i think that's what friend is sort of trying to make um with their pendant like it listens to you and it can message you on your phone that's the other crazy thing about pendant or the the find pendant it doesn't it doesn't actually talk to you don't have conversations with it it just has a microphone which transcribes the text and then sends you text messages and

Anyways, it's interesting.

There's a lot of things at stake here.

I'd be very curious to see if the companionship one really is that popular.

Like I definitely can see value in using these for utility, but companionship is interesting.

I will say recently, I had a very, very long conversation.

It was, of course, the new year.

And so I had a very long conversation with ChatGPT where I basically, and this wasn't chat, but parts of this, I use the voice mode to give a bunch of details.

But I basically went in there,

and gave it every single revenue stream I had last year and how much money I made from every single one and gave it a bunch of business ideas I had for this year and asked it where I should focus my time, what opportunities I was leaving on the table, basically asking it for sort of like financial advice to break down

all my businesses, it did an incredible job, told me areas where I needed to focus more, should focus less on.

I think intuitively, some of those things, I could have told myself that, but it's so hard when you have these ideas that you feel emotionally attached to.

And it feels good to have a third party that feels non-biased, just listen to the data and give you an output.

So

Like when we're talking about having a companion and when Johnny Ive talks about having a companion like yeah if my like I mean I use chat GPT for that but like if I had some sort of you know speakerless device on my desk where I was just talking to it and it was responding and it was like business coaching me very useful but I sort of view that more as a utility than a companion instead of just being like.