{"id":15511,"date":"2019-07-03T00:12:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T00:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/sam-lessin-and-andrew-kortina-on-their-voice-assistants-workplace-pivot.html"},"modified":"2019-07-03T00:12:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T00:12:10","slug":"sam-lessin-and-andrew-kortina-on-their-voice-assistants-workplace-pivot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/sam-lessin-and-andrew-kortina-on-their-voice-assistants-workplace-pivot.html","title":{"rendered":"Sam Lessin and Andrew Kortina on their voice assistant\u2019s workplace pivot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sam Lessin, a former<\/span> product management executive at Facebook and old friend to Mark Zuckerberg, incorporated his latest startup under the name \u201cFin Exploration Company.\u201d<\/p>\n

Why? Well, because he wanted to explore. The company \u2014 co-founded alongside Andrew Kortina, <\/a> best known for launching the successful payments app Venmo \u2014 was conceived as a consumer voice assistant in 2015 after the two entrepreneurs realized the impact 24\/7 access to a virtual assistant would have on their digital to-do lists.<\/p>\n

The thing is, developing an AI assistant capable of booking flights, arranging trips, teaching users how to play poker, identifying places to purchase specific items for a birthday party and answering wide-ranging zany questions like \u201ccan you look up a place where I can milk a goat?\u201d requires a whole lot more human power than one might think. Capital-intensive and hard-to-scale, an app for \u201cinstantly offloading\u201d chores wasn\u2019t the best business. Neither Lessin nor Kortina will admit to failure, but Fin<\/a>\u2018s excursion into B2B enterprise software eight months ago suggests the assistant technology wasn\u2019t a billion-dollar idea.<\/p>\n

Staying true to its name, the Fin Exploration Company is exploring again.<\/p>\n

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