S9 E21: Matt Hocking, WellSaid Labs

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Matt Hocking has a background in design, and started off as a graphic designer in Australia. He moved into lecturing while running a design school, which led him to New York and the startup community. He is a multi founder, which led him to his current venture. Outside of tech and startups, he is a family man, and loves to spend time with his kids - which he calls his startup outside of his startup. He enjoys building and drawing with his son, and doing the best he can to support his young daughter in becoming a princess one day. In 2018, Matt met his co-founder when joining AI2. While he was working on deep learning projects, Matt was working on a user centered, voice based experience in healthcare. When they put both things together, they figured out they could really help people and save hours of studio time by generating voiceovers with AI. This is the creation story of WellSaid Labs. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	The other big aspect of this was we were creating a whole different type of technology here.
0:08.8	We took it upon ourselves very early to make sure that not only were we going to build the highest quality AI voice that was available on the market,
0:17.1	but also as well as that we had to think very deeply around our responsibility into how we would ethically usher this into the world as well. A lot of thought and a lot of
0:26.6	challenges early on were not just around, hey, how can we get people to utilize this, but also
0:31.3	what is the right way that we should be allowing people to utilize this? And what are some of the
0:36.0	initial considerations that we need to make to protect
0:38.2	people from possible harm. I'm Matt Harking, co-founder of Wellset Labs.
0:46.7	This is Code Story. A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:52.3	Six months moonlighting.
0:53.7	There's nothing on the backcats.
0:55.8	Who share what it takes to change in industry.
0:58.3	I don't exactly know what to do next.
1:00.2	It took many goes to get right.
1:01.9	Who built the teams that have their back.
1:04.5	The company is its people.
1:06.1	The teams help each other achieve.
1:07.5	Most proud of our team.
1:09.1	Keeping scalability top of mind.
1:11.6	All that infrastructure was a pain.
1:12.8	Yes, we've been fighting it as a group.
1:14.5	Total waste of time.
1:15.9	The stories you don't read in the headlines.
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