After A $300M Walmart Exit He Raised $60M From Khosla and USV To Build An AI Friend
Today I walk with Quinten Farmer, co-founder of Tolan, a personal AI built to be a guide through life. Quinten has sold his last company, Even, to Walmart for $300M, saved millions of Americans billions in payday loans and overdraft fees, and raised $60M from USV and Khosla. He gets into why he has zero interest in an AI that books your flights, and why Tolan takes most of its time from TikTok and television.We get into:
- Why he has zero interest in an AI that books flights or writes work emails, and the guardian angel idea behind Tolan
- Social penetration theory, and why every Tolan gets its own lore and backstory
- Selling Even to Walmart for $300M after saving Americans billions in payday loans and overdraft fees
- The email to David Tisch that gave him two options: hire me or I go to Afghanistan
- The lunch spent on compostable takeout container margins that pulled him back into tech
so much more!
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(00:00) Trailer
(00:49) Quinten Farmer, Co-Founder, Tolan
(00:58) What Tolan is and what it is not
(02:02) The car accident that showed Tolan's agentic side
(04:47) Anthropic's machine God VS being nice to your toaster
(06:24) Social penetration theory and why every Tolan has a backstory
(09:36) 200 minutes a week and taking share from TikTok
(10:47) Why great friendship gets mistaken for therapy
(14:26) Talking to his Tolan at 2 a.m. in the hospital
(16:32) Why Silicon Valley is obsessed with AI assistants
(21:38) Dropping out and the only time he saw his grandfather cry
(29:35) The David Tisch email: hire me or I go to Afghanistan
(32:22) Selling Even to Walmart for $300M
(37:24) Why shipping a lot with AI is the wrong move
(57:43) How Tolan runs without 996
(1:03:38) What he wants his boys to remember
(1:04:30) Outro
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