Lidiya Terpel🇺🇦

As a former founder, a small dream just came true 🔥  We launched a Consumer AI Accelerator with @inworld_ai & @TRMNL_4 4, completely equity-free

We’re excited to join the Agent Skills OpenClaw & World Models Build Day, hosted by @agihouse_org on March 14. Our founder and CEO, @KylanGibbs, will speak about enabling voice-native AI agents and how to power them with real-time TTS, intelligent model routing, and real-time speech-to-speech infrastructure to create truly conversational experiences at scale. The event will bring together 100+ AI founders and researchers, with speakers from organizations including @GoogleDeepMind, @amazon, @moonlake, @BenchFlow, @xai and the @LaudeVentures. If you’re in the Bay Area, join us. Register via the link: app.agihouse.org/events/Agent-S…

Tomorrow is our Accelerator Demo Day! Investors, this is your last call to join us. 32 Consumer AI startups, $50M+ combined ARR. The VC list is packed with great names: Lightspeed, SignalFire, Menlo, BITKRAFT, M12, Legendary Ventures, Pear VC, AI Fund, and more. RSVP👇🏼

Consumer AI Accelerator · Week 5 Recap One founder optimized AI latency and increased usage overnight. Another walked into a VC pitch with a slide titled: “Here are the 7 companies that failed in our space and exactly why.” Week 5 was about infrastructure decisions, investor conviction, and the craft of pitching top-tier VCs. We were joined by: ➤ @mbaierlentz (@lightspeedvp) ➤ @JoshConstine (@SignalFire) ➤ Dmytro Mindra (@Superhuman) ➤ Ilya Liasun (@Pinterest) Below are 10 insights worth reading. Our Demo Day · March 3 · San Francisco. Last day to register. RSVP: partiful.com/e/FI2PKEoVqDDP… Thanks to our partners @TRMNL_4, @stripe, @BITKRAFTVC, @HeyOyster, and @CBRE for supporting and hosting our Demo Day. See you tomorrow!

Consumer AI Accelerator · Week 4 recap One team changed a voice in their app. Users were furious. Another swapped models for workout generation. Completions went up 12%. No one noticed the change except in the metrics. These are the kinds of stories that came out of Week 4, from: ➤ Founders Alexis Sursock (Luvu) and @dima_deka (@TalkpalAI ), moderated by @KylanGibbs. ➤ Investors @mps_vc (@M12vc ) and @sameer_singh17 (@speedinvest), moderated by Cheryl Fichter. Not theory. Real decisions, real tradeoffs, and what actually moved the numbers. 8 lessons in the carousel.

I GOT TRICKED into rejecting startups live on screen -and it ended up being one of the most clarifying exercises I’ve done. The Consumer AI Accelerator had me and @katieruthmishra at @khoslaventures react in real time to cold inbound messages: pass or take the meeting. Plot twist was every “example” was a founder sitting in the room. After the public triage, we went deeper and surfaced a few patterns worth sharing: 1️⃣ 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠? Founder > deck. I'm looking for: Depth on the problem and market Clarity in how you frame the opportunity Genuine obsession, not trend-chasing Traction helps, but depth + clarity are what actually move us forward. 2️⃣ 𝐃𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐦 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫? Absolutely. For our last few Seed / Series A deals, 100% came through intros. 3️⃣ 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐫? I always use the product/watch a live demo to do a taste/quality check. Is this a generational company, or just a feature? It's critical to have a concrete GTM plan with realistic CAC and a believable path to meaningful revenue (not “we’ll turn on ads later”) in the next few years. The moat against LLMs is a compounding loop of differentiated distribution, proprietary data, opinionated product/UX, deep integrations into workflows, and a team that can iterate faster than everyone else. 4️⃣ 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠? Extremely. The best founders are talent and customer magnets. If exceptional people want to work with you early on, that’s good signal. 5️⃣ 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐢𝐳𝐞? Overreaching on price quietly kills companies. Know your metrics and your leverage. Raise enough to retire specific risks. Optimize for the right partner, not just the highest valuation. If you’re building in consumer or AI, have a live product, and think deeply about distribution, my DMs are open. Thanks @LTerpel for having us @MenloVentures

@tankots, you’re officially invited to our March 3 Consumer AI Accelerator Demo Day. I think you can inspire a lot of founders to build valuable products🙌🏻 — Whispered with Wispr Flow partiful.com/e/FI2PKEoVqDDP…

Respect and thank you to @tankots and the Wispr team 👏 If you’re not using Wispr yet, start today! My only regret - not starting earlier :) Referral link 👉 wisprflow.ai/r?LIDIYA4

I’m not typing this. I’m whispering it in a crowded cafe after celebrating the Android launch with the awesome Wispr team. Since I started using @WisprFlow, I barely type anymore. No typing on Slack. No long emails. Just talking to my laptop. It saves me 2+ hours a day. Easily!

@tankots @WisprFlow @tankots So… is the Porsche still up for grabs? 😄 With my Ukrainian accent, I’ve already spotted a few fun things in the app that could be leveled up. Honestly, some of them could spin off into their own new revenue streams for you

We offered 5 people a Porsche 911 GT3 RS if they could get @WisprFlow to make a mistake It's the fastest and most accurate AI voice dictation app that's 3x more accurate than ChatGPT, Claude, or Siri. Today, we’re finally launching on Android. Download now: play.google.com/store/apps/det… As a part of the launch, we’re giving away 6 months of Wispr Flow Pro for free. Like, retweet and comment ‘Wispr Flow’ to get it. Enjoy. — Written with Wispr Flow

Consumer AI Accelerator Week 3 recap! Featuring speakers from our growth and VC fundraising sessions: @alexmashrabov (@higgsfield_ai), @faionur (@statusgamexyz ), Jean Wang (@inworld_ai), and @jasperbrand_ (@BITKRAFTVC). We discussed how consumer AI products actually get built, distributed, and financed. Below are the top 10 insights from the webinars.

@itskellysun Would love to join you 🙌🏻

Hosting an intimate afternoon tea for women founders in one of the oldest landmarks in the heart of SF! 🫖 Still got 5 seats left, DM/comment for an invite :)

@sam_emara 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

Foxy was selected for the Consumer AI Accelerator by TRMNL4 and Inworld AI 🎉 It's a STACKED cohort of founders and operators from Character AI, Flo, Lovable, Pinterest and more - backed by some of the world’s top consumer investors like Menlo, Maveron, Khosla, and Lightspeed. (and of course, I managed to blink at the wrong time for the pic) LFG 🚀

Week 3 recap of Consumer AI Accelerator. Last week, @MehraAvisha from @khoslaventures , Stacey Slater from @HeyOyster, and @LTerpel from @inworld_ai broke down how fast-growing startups actually build teams: • The “power of six” rule • Why your first 10 hires define the next 100 • When hiring CXOs is too early • How to recruit candidates stronger than you Below are 10 key takeaways on strategic hiring in a fast-scaling company.

The cohort: • 32 AI-native consumer startups • $50M+ combined ARR • Top 3 startups at $10M / $6M / $5M ARR (4× YoY growth) • $30M+ raised, 12 bootstrapped • Founding teams from NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft, Stanford and YC. Want founder intros before Demo Day? → DM me

Consumer AI investors, angels, VC scouts → save the date! On March 3, we're hosting the Consumer AI Accelerator Demo Day in San Francisco 🌉 Hosted by: @inworld_ai & @TRMNL_4 RSVP partiful.com/e/FI2PKEoVqDDP…

Week 2 recap of Consumer AI Accelerator. This week we ran two sessions around one core question: What really matters when you’re building a consumer AI product that can scale?

You can’t “AI strategy” your way to product-market fit. You have to measure your way there. Just dropped a new @getbluejay_ai Skywatch episode with CEO and co-founder of @inworld_ai, @KylanGibbs🎙️ We spoke about why most voice + agent teams are still shipping on vibes (“sounds good to me”) — and why users disagree. Also timely: Inworld just shipped TTS-1.5 — benchmarks-first, lower latency + cost, real consumer-scale voice is finally viable. Key takeaways: • Quality is contextual (user, region, use case) • Offline benchmarks ≠ real truth → run online experiments • Pipelines beat single models (STT ↔ LLM ↔ TTS) • Cheap + fast voice unlocks new products Watch and listen to it now — link in the replies 👇 #VoiceAI #AgenticAI #Realtime #AIInfra