New Worldbuilders episode is live. @sumeet724 sits down with @daraladje, Co-Founder and CEO of @withdelphi. Delphi lets you create a digital version of your mind – an interactive presence that can share your knowledge and represent you at scale. The company raised $16M in a Series A led by Sequoia. Before Delphi, Dara built and sold Friday, a text-based commerce tool, within a year. The idea started with Dara's grandfather. He'd had a stroke and couldn't be asked questions directly. After reading Kurzweil's How to Create a Mind, Dara used GPT-3 to build a digital version of him – and realized the insight wasn't what the clone said, but that it came from someone he trusted. "Delphi kind of makes humans the main characters again, where AI is the main character right now." "No one wanted our product. It was really painful. You just have to continue. And survive." They cover why he chose LLMs over crypto, Dara selling his first startup and joining OpenStore to find a mentor, the micro-pivots that shaped Delphi, and why trust is the thing AI can't commoditize. Full episode below.