Victor Riparbelli
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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And a whole bunch of other interesting ideas of like how content creation could be made easier.
So I was following that space and Matthias Diesner had a lot of papers in this space around VR, but he also had this paper coming out called Face to Face.
And when I saw that, I think I had this eureka moment where, you know, instead of trying to do this with VR, where we're both trying to bring a new type of media to market, which is hard and a clunky headset, and we're trying to make it easier to create content, that's kind of a double whammy of very hard problems.
If this works with video,
That's interesting, right?
Because video, the infrastructure of video is already in place.
We're all spending time on YouTube.
Like video is, you know, you could just take an AI video and replace it with a normal video.
And so the distribution problem wasn't really there.
And I think that's where I kind of started to feel like this is actually like a very interesting business idea because if we can solve this for video, we, you know, we can, we can distribute to the world pretty quickly.
So we started the company in 2017, but there was a lead up to that of, you know, trying to build a prototype and, you know, get the thesis down and all that, trying to raise money, which was very, very, very difficult because this was a very non-consensus bet at the time.
We were basically telling people in 10 years, you can make a Hollywood film with nothing else but your imagination.
And at that point in time, like that was certainly like a sci-fi dream more than it was something that was like tangible to investors.
And every investor just wanted to invest in fintech at the time.
But in October 2017, we raised the first funding round, got a million dollars from Mark Cuban, who was a big believer and has been since day one.
Yeah, so we had a long list of investors that we tried to speak to, and we weren't very lucky.
And we had a list over like...
business angels, wealthy people that fit well in the kind of media and technology Venn diagram.
And Mark was one of them.
So we found his email online actually by downloading a hack.
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