Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Rohit Divate, VP of Finance at Tide, wants a company Jarvis: one system that ingests every meeting, every Slack message, every Google Drive file, and answers questions about all of it through voice. Products like Glean are getting close. Nobody has fully solved it yet.
#finance #AI #startups
Rohit Divate, VP of Finance at Tide, wants a company Jarvis: one system that ingests every meeting, every Slack message, every Google Drive file, and answers questions about all of it through voice. Products like Glean are getting close. Nobody has fully solved it yet.
#finance #AI #startups









![Building Jarvis: A Voice AI Startup Making Computer Interaction Invisible |Tanay Kothari (WisprFlow)
Tanay Kothari is co-founder and CEO of Wispr Flow, a voice AI company he started with co-founder Sahaj Garg in 2021, building toward a Jarvis-like assistant that lets people interact with computers through natural speech instead of keyboards and screens. His younger brother, Jaisal Kothari, is co-founder and CEO of Gallium and was Wisprs first software engineer, joining as a Stanford freshman to help build the companys earliest voice dictation technology.
Anne Dwane sits down with Tanay and Jaisal at a Village Global event to trace Tanays path from building and shipping nearly 50 apps in secret as a teenager, including one that hit 2.5 million users before Google sent him a cease and desist, to founding Wispr as a hardware company and pivoting entirely to software after watching users ignore the physical device in favor of the app alone. Tanay breaks down Wisprs zero edit rate metric, a stricter and more user-centered standard than the industrys typical word error rate, walks through the viral Porsche-giveaway marketing stunt that pulled in tens of millions of views, and explains why he personally sat in on the companys first 500 onboarding calls. The conversation also covers how Wispr thinks about competing with frontier AI labs entering voice, why the company stacks multiple layers of defensibility instead of relying on one moat, and Tanays approach to keeping teams small and communication overhead low as the company scales. Jaisal opens the conversation with the story of growing up alongside Tanays secretive late-night coding sessions and how that early exposure shaped his own path into tech.
[00:00] Cold open
[00:29] Welcome to the event; introducing Jaisal
[00:53] Growing up with a 7-year age gap
[01:42] The app that hit 2.5 million users and got a cease and desist from Google
[02:12] What their parents thought about the secrecy
[03:00] The movie that inspired Tanay: Iron Man and the dream of building Jarvis
[03:47] Jaisals own path into tech
[04:59] Joining Wispr as its first software engineer
[06:15] Tanay arrives; the origin story of Wispr
[06:39] Starting the company with co-founder Sahaj Garg in 2021
[07:59] Building a wearable hardware device for silent speech
[08:54] The pivot: realizing users only wanted the software
[09:06] Sometimes the best product decisions come from humility, not conviction
[10:20] The long-term vision: technology that fades into the background
[11:41] Why agentic AI assistants still dont work yet
[13:03] Building toward Jarvis, one step at a time
[13:08] The zero edit rate metric and why it beats word error rate
[14:27] The viral Porsche giveaway marketing stunt
[16:32] Personally running the first 500 onboarding calls
[18:33] Competing with OpenAI and other frontier labs on voice
[20:07] Why moats need to stack, not stand alone
[21:21] Growing the ML team and hiring Amazon and Metas former voice AI leads
[21:22] Why Wispr avoids small edge models
[22:35] How Wispr trains on individual user data and privacy tradeoffs
[24:25] Scaling the team without losing efficiency
[25:56] Why bigger teams dont mean proportionally more output
[28:22] Predictions: multiple AI agents, personal compartmentalization, and the future of Apples role Building Jarvis: A Voice AI Startup Making Computer Interaction Invisible |Tanay Kothari (WisprFlow)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vXi4EdrFj9s/mqdefault.jpg)
