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Kritarth Mittal • Soshals
Founder, Soshals | C... • 1m
> be Karan Goel > spawn in Delhi, India > see the entire family hustle > decide to build something new > graduate with a dual degree from IIT > rank top 0.1% of India > realize it's not enough > head to Carnegie Mellon to build AI 2017 - 2018 > win $35K in Siebel Scholarship > grind like crazy at CMU > move to Stanford for PhD > join Stanford AI Lab under Prof. Chris Ré > dive deep into the algorithms > start building in AI from scratch > research at Salesforce AI Research > get Greylock X Fellowship > learn AI infrastructure from every angle 2020 > invent State Space Models (SSMs) > publish "It's Raw! Audio Generation with State-Space Models" at ICML 2022 > cook while everyone watches 2023 > finish PhD thesis > could join any lab, any company instead go "we're starting a company" > start building Cartesia to disrupt Voice AI > raise $22M seed from top VCs and angels 2024 > launch Sonic: world's fastest TTS model > 10,000+ customers sign up > Quora, Cresta, Rasa, etc start using it 2025 > raise $64M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins > go from founding to Series A in 18 months > launch Sonic 2.0 > cut latency in half: 90ms → 45ms > scale to 50,000+ customers > become the fastest voice AI in the world August 2025 > launch Line > voice agent development platform > make it easy for anyone to build voice AI > state space models go mainstream Oct 2025 > launch Sonic-3 with 42 languages > raise $100M to accelerate Karan Goel for you, ladies and gentlemen. He is living proof that you are not born a legend, but you can become one. What's stopping you?
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