Future of Audio: AirPods as a Platform, Seamless Computing, Voice Assistants, Voice Interfaces, Cochlear Implants, Voice OS, Social Audio

Matt Hartman is a partner at Betaworks Ventures. Betaworks invests in companies that change the way we communicate, such as Giphy, Anchor, Gimlet Media, Bitly, Medium, GroupMe, Venmo, Twitter, Kickstarter, and Tumblr.

Prior to joining Betaworks, Matt built ReferBoost (licensed to Apartments.com), and was at Hot Potato (acquired by Facebook). He began his career building the technology platform for Trammell Crow Company (acquired by CBRE) and is the inventor of a patent related to the protection of digital images.

In this episode we cover:

1. What does the future of audio look like
2. Privacy and permissions for voice interfaces
3. Context in an “always listening” world
4. Social voice/audio
5. Design constraints of audio
6. On demand interfaces
7. AirPods as a Platform
8. How Matt does research on new spaces
9. How Matt spends his time as a VC

Notable Mentions

Anchor – https://anchor.fm/
Gimlet – https://gimletmedia.com/
TTYL – https://www.ttyl.fyi/
Rec Room – https://recroom.com/
Resemble AI – https://www.resemble.ai/
Descript – https://www.descript.com/
Peter Rojas – https://twitter.com/peterrojas