Trint’s Jeff Kofman: “Rise of the voice economy"

The Times Tech Podcast

• Episode: Trint’s Jeff Kofman: “Rise of the voice economy"
• Website: The Times Tech Podcast
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• Duration: 00:41:24
• Published: 2020-06-19 04:00

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Jeff Kofman, founder of Trint, to talk about creating a transcription startup (4:30), solving the problem (7:30), what to do when others start giving it away for free (8:45), why competition isn't a bad thing (11:00), the history of speech-to-text (18:00), how being a journalist trained him to be an entrepreneur (20:50), how digital shifted to the front foot (23:30), being terrified by rivals (28:50), expanding beyond his first idea (31:30), lettuce (34:50), raising $10 million (35:50), and his worst day of work (37:50).

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