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Samim Safaei

Oct 14, 2026

27:21
Exactly.
27:22
Yeah.
27:23
And I totally agree.
27:24
And it's funny you list those examples.
27:26
Some of the most robust features that the SIF platform can do is very detailed and very well-organized.
27:34
research and validation of that research associated to particular ideas.
27:41
So I won't try to explain the product in too much detail here, but I totally agree with you that when it comes to research, when it comes to summarization, maybe even evaluation on a qualitative level of content, it is quite good.
32:01
where they understand the
5:22
Mm-hmm
5:23
... uh, yeah, hard to make money on earlier stage technology.
5:25
So in the second business, um, we worked on essentially a line of, like, wireless sensors and different types of devices for, uh, apartment buildings.
5:36
So it was, like, a smart building technology startup.
5:39
Um, thermostats and things like that.
5:43
And there it was much later in the technology life cycle curve, right? So it was, like, mature technologies.
5:49
These sensors exist.

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23:41
Yeah.
23:25
I'm interested in your answer.
23:27
Let me think about it.
23:28
What's the line in the sand between saving someone, quote unquote, and letting them go through it on their own? Um, I think a lot of it is just like, I guess their personal readiness.
23:41
Um, you know, a lot of times you have conviction, maybe you want to tinker, you want to, you want to just explore this particular space.
23:49
Um, other times it's like, no, I want to make a business successful.
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I want to make things work out.
23:54
And, um, you know, there's, there's kind of a humbling or like a letting go of some of your beliefs or some of your convictions that you have to do there and just be more.
24:37
I mean, Sameem, what else should people know about SIFT, about what you're building, and what's the AI component?
14:12
Where does that analogy kind of fit into what you guys are building, what you kind of see in the market?
14:18
Yeah, good connection there.
14:21
Because I think the intern... way of using AI.
14:27
And let me clarify, I think most people are using AI like interns.
14:32
And so the AI is your intern, you kind of just delegate something to it.
14:37
And then it goes, figures out and does it.
14:40
But if your intention is not clear, or if you're like, oh, hey, just go do that report.

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32:46
Informed optimism.

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