The founder who raised from Sequoia & then fired his customers | 10ML with Ali Rohde Ep 05 - Tavus CEO Hassaan Raza

CEO Hassaan Raza doesn't want you to call Tavus an avatar company. He co-founded it in 2020 and just raised a $40M Series B led by CRV — with Salesforce, Amazon, and Alibaba already building on it — to chase something bigger than talking heads: "human computing," AI humans that can see you, hear you, remember you, and read your expressions in real time.In about 10 minutes, Hassaan explains why putting a face on "some shitty LLM audio pipeline" is worse than useless, why Tavus builds four classes of its own models and films its own training data, the moment he fired his first customers to return to the original vision, why he'd still pick Claude Code over Codex, and the use case he never saw coming — elderly care companions.Most podcasts are an hour or more. This is 10 Minutes or Less.Hassaan is the Co-Founder/CEO of Tavus.• X: https://x.com/hassaanrza• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hassaanraza• Website: https://www.hassaanraza.com• Tavus: https://www.tavus.ioAli is the cofounder/GP at Outset Capital.• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-rohde-90719970/• X: https://x.com/RohdeAli• Website: https://alirohde.com• Outset Capital: https://outsetcapital.com