Jack Lancaster is the co-founder and CPO at Spoke.ai, a generative AI startup that are cutting through workplace noise by summarizing and prioritizing information. Previously, Jack led product teams at N26 and ONE Finance before co-founding Plantclub.io and Spoke.ai

Spoke.ai cuts through workplace noise by aggregating, prioritizing, and summarizing information.

Their App for Slack allows you summarize threads and channels in Slack to save time. It's free to use and you can set it up in under a minute: https://www.spoke.ai/slack-summarization

They're also building a Smart Inbox that aggregates all your notifications across tools (Slack, Jira, Figma, Notion, etc.), prioritizes the most important topics, and summarizes across notifications.

⏱️ Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
0:38 - Jack’s background
0:24 - Entrepreneurship & first startup
4:36 - Entering into Generative AI
6:36 - Spoke.ai's first iteration
7:42 - The decision to pivot
10:30 - Second iteration
11:48 - Spoke.ai solutions
16:15 - Optimising the model
18:11 - Knowing when to go all in
21:10 - Getting buy-in from investors
23:07 - Early customers
25:34 - Spoke’s value metrics
27:03 - Go-to-market
28:37 - Beating the competition
30:24 - Team
32:02 - Building strong co-founder relationships
34:25 - Choosing co-founder roles
36:37 - Raising capital today
38:13 - Contrasting US / European tech culture

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ℹ️ Guest & Company info

🚀 Startup - Spoke.ai

🌐 Startup's site - https://www.spoke.ai/

🗂️ Crunchbase - https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/spoke-ai

🧑‍💻 Founder - Jack Lancaster

💼 Founder's LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacklancaster4/

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