Jordan Dearsley, Founder & CEO at Vapi. Vapi enterprises deploy human-like voice agents in minutes. Whether you’re building a voice product or trying to handle millions of calls, Vapi’s reliable infrastructure and flexible APIs make it easy.Episode Highlights:- Jordan shares his journey from starting a company in Canada, going through Y Combinator, and pivoting multiple times before landing on Vapi.- Jordan reflects on the challenges of building productivity apps, including fierce competition, low willingness to pay, and burnout.- The pivotal moment when Jordan, searching for something to talk to, stitched together AI models and realized the potential of real-time AI voice agents.- Jordan explains how Vapi evolved into an API-first voice platform, allowing seamless integration of speech-to-speech models as they improve.- Jordan discusses the expected breakthroughs in speech-to-speech AI, why distribution remains the biggest challenge, and how Vapi is positioning itself for the future.------------------------------------------------Connect with Jordan Dearsley:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordandearsley/https://www.linkedin.com/company/vapi-ai/https://www.vapi.ai/Connect with Demetrios:https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpbrinkm/Connect with Deepgram:https://deepgram.com/https://www.linkedin.com/company/deepgramhttps://twitter.com/deepgramaihttps://www.facebook.com/deepgram/Join the Deepgram Discord Server!https://discord.com/invite/xWRaCDBtW4

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