Building a Real Business vs Passion Project With Krzysztof (Chris) Wrobel? | Еp.98

12/06/2024 54 min

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Episode Synopsis

Our guest today is Krzysztof (Chris) Wrobel, the founder and CEO of Virbe AI, a startup incorporating a one-stop-shop solution to extend your team with AI-powered digital employees.

With passion and experience for the future of digital interaction, Chris founded Virbe AI, a Virtual Being creation suite, designed to transform Conversational AI and chatbots into interactive human-like avatars.

Chris is also involved in mentoring and guiding other companies in embracing emerging technologies.

In this episodes, he touches on:

How he started his entrepreneurial journey by accident;
What can a Virtual Being do for a business and why we need this technology;
The balance between innovation and ethical implications in VR/AR;

TIME STAMPS

0:00 Trailer
1:53 Intro
2:40 Chris’s entrepreneurial journey from hospitality to engineering
10:00 The skills one need to have in a startup
15:33 How Virbe started and what’s the story behind?
21:22 The business model of AI solutions
24:41 The EU AI Act and its impact
25:54 How to explain a new technology to investors
31:38 Virtual being vs chatbots
36:42 How is metaverse fitting in Virbe’s business?
39:33 Will AI steal our jobs?
47:27 What big problem is Virbe solving
53:04 Outro

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