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Giant IdeasSynthesia Co-founder and COO, Steffen Tjerrild: the Future of Video, Trust, and DeepfakesToday on the podcast we have Synthesia Co-founder and COO Steffen Tjerrild.Synthesia is an AI company that allows you to create professional videos with just a few lines of text. It’s now used by over 1 million customers, including +80% of Fortune 100 companies. Synthesia is a UK unicorn, recently valued at $2 billion.At the heart of Synthesia's exponential growth is Steffen. As the company’s COO, Steffen has seen the company through its inception to the latest funding round. Today we talk about text-to-video, product market fit, the future of deep fakes and how quickly you...
2025-09-0434 min
Sifted StudioEurope’s AI opportunity episode 3: The next few yearsEurope’s AI opportunity is a new podcast mini-series brought to you by Sifted and Nebius, an AI infrastructure company building full-stack cloud for the AI era. Over the next three episodes, Sifted’s senior reporter Daphné Leprince-Ringuet will be exploring the potential of AI for Europe’s enterprises.This episode focuses on what the AI opportunity looks like for Europe in the next few years — what are Europe’s AI founders focusing on to differentiate themselves in the AI race, what they need to scale and stand a chance against their competitors and why, ultimately...
2025-07-0231 min
UKTN | The PodcastWhy the UK must not make the EU's AI ‘mistakes’ – Victor Riparbelli, CEO, SynthesiaVictor Riparbelli, co-founder and CEO of Synthesia, discusses the various appeals of AI-generated video content, the importance of startups implementing strict AI safety controls, and how the UK doesn't have to follow what he sees as the EU's mistakes in AI regulation. Riparbelli founded Synthesia along with Lourdes Agapito, Matthias Neissner and Steffen Tjerrild in 2017. The London-based company uses AI to generate videos hosted by artificial avatars based on user scripts. Its technology is primarily used by more than 55,000 businesses - including half of the Fortune 100 - for corporate education and communications. Riparbelli explains how at t...
2024-08-1330 min
Unicorn BuildersSteffen Tjerrild: The GTM Story of Synthesia ($1 Billion Valuation)Welcome to another episode of Unicorn Builders. In today's episode, we're speaking with Steffen Tjerrild, Co-Founder, CFO & COO of Synthesia, an AI video platform that has raised over $150 Million in funding.
Here are the most interesting points from our conversation:
Early AI Eureka Moment: Steffen discusses the pivotal moment when he realized the potential of AI to change video post-production, igniting the journey of Synthesia.
Navigating Initial Challenges: The first 90 days were a rollercoaster, marked by high excitement and multiple rejections before securing Mark Cuban as an investor through a cold email.
Impact of ChatGPT: The...
2024-06-1132 min
The Revenue FormulaHow Synthesia blew past 50K customers (With Steffen Tjerrild, co-founder & COO/CFO)How do you get to this first million in revenue? And what does the journey past 10 look like? That's what Steffen from Synthesia shared with us.In the episode, we got into:(00:00) - Introduction
(02:28) - Meet Steffen
(03:47) - The backstory
(09:58) - The first million (service revenue)
(14:27) - The first first million (subscriptions)
(19:11) - Getting to $10M
(23:21) - Viral loop
(30:34) - Enterprise early
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2024-03-0741 min