Florian Scherl 19 year-old Founder and CEO of Fast AI Movies talks about his startup journey as a young and successful entrepreneur with Laurenz Sommerlad from Europe's leading student initiative TUM.ai. 

 

Florian learned programming at the age of 12, built his first neural network at 15, and finally founded his company when he turned 18.

He already employs over 16 people and won several startup competitions.

FAST AI Movies uses Artificial Intelligence to produce fully automated customized training videos.

 

Deep dive into the stories of past AI E-Lab participants. Unveil their learnings, catch a glimpse of their latest wins, and uncover nuggets of wisdom from their participation in the AI Entropreneurship-Lab, a student-led, equity-free 14-week incubator from TUM.ai. 

 

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FAST AI MOVIES & FLORIAN SCHERL:

Florian's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/florian-scherl/

Fast AI Movies LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fast-ai-movies/

Website: https://fast-ai-movies.de/

 

LAURENZ SOMMERLAD:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurenzsommerlad/
Twitter: https://x.com/Lauros_World

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurenzsommerlad/
Website: https://laurenzsommerlad.com

 

VALENTIN MÜHLDORFER x STUDIO MUNICH:

Studio Munich's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/studiomunich/

Studio Munich's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/studio.munich/

Valentine's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valentin-c-m/

Valentine's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vlxntin/

 

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/DPJGAG9blO8

 

TUM.AI STUDENT INITIATIVE:

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Website: https://www.tum-ai.com/

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OUTLINE:

00:00 - Intro

00:15 - Who is Florian Scherl?

00:28 - Coding prodigy at the age of 12

01:50 - What is Fast AI Movies?

03:27 - Competition (ChatGPT, Synthesia)

05:55 - Technical Deep Dive

07:00 - What is a Transformer Model, LLM ?

09:23 - Business Model and Product

12:14 - Prices and Packages

14:21 - Biggest Challenges and Obstacles

18:37 - AI E-LAB impact on growth and development

20:39 - Final Pitch Event at Microsoft and new Employee

21:10 - Advice for apsiring Entrepreneurs

22:45 - How to use Startup Incubators correctly

23:13 - Progress Update since AI E-LAB

25:44 - Team Structure

26:43 - 16 Employees. Who are they?

27:17 - How to afford 16 employees as young startup?

28:18 - Key Learnings and Insights at AI E-Lab Incubator 

30:11 - Advice for Founders (Support Network, Sign up for everything)

31:37 - EU AI Act

33:57 - Outro