Finding Product-Market-Fit by Acting as a Developer Shop with Otto Söderlund of Speechly

Are you satisfied with modern voice technology as we move into 2021? Otto Söderlund, the CEO and co-founder of Speechly, still sees a lot of shortcomings in the technology. That’s why his startup has developed technology that performs speech recognition and natural language understanding in real-time. In other words, Speechly is doing things with voice technology that the big players in that space have yet to do. Otto was a guest on the Silicon Valley Momentum Podcast this week with Roland Siebelink. In addition to talking about Speechly’s incredible technology, Otto shared his vision for the future of voice technology and who stands to benefit the most from Speechly’s core technology: How product and development teams can integrate Speechly into their products. Why being tech-oriented has allowed Speechly to reduce its focus on marketing. How serving as a development shop was key in Speechly ultimately finding product-market fit. Why Otto believes that mutual trust is the biggest key to a successful co-founder relationship. Otto’s belief that co-founders are a family and their company is their “baby.”