“We are far from the pants,” said Andy Dunn, founder of online Bonobos fashion retail fashion at TechCrunch. Now, the former CEO is taking over a completely different challenge: he wants to help people make friends.
Dunn’s newest venture, Pie, is a social application that focuses on the concentration of people in real life.
With one Series of 11.5 million $ and funds to pay organizers to host events, Pie It has increased to over 130,000 monthly active users, despite being only available in San Francisco and Chicago. But more users meant that the personal events hosted through the application were also increasingly full, making people more difficult for people to connect.
The young company faced a problem: If hundreds of people appear in an event, how do visitors know who to talk to? How can they make friends when they walk in a busy room, surrounded by strangers?
“This is the beauty of building a start,” Dunn said. “A solution creates a problem.”
Fortunately, a possible solution for this problem was not difficult to find.
Two events organizers in Pie were already working together to build a tool called Spareed Connections, a quiz with AI trying to predict which people will meet better in a particular social event. Pie Acqui received the two founders, Samir Mahafzah and Sam Stubbs and folded the quiz at some gatherings, which are described as “pie”.
At Pie’s “Coffee With Strangers” event, for example, every person who will do a brief personality test, where respondents evaluate how much they agree with a given feeling on a scale of 1 to 5. These prompts vary and include things such as: Are you willing to sacrifice stability to follow a passion? Do you believe in astrology? Do you pray? Do you vote? Do you have any toxic features?
Before the event, the quiz algorithm divides respondents into groups of six, based on who thinks AI is more likely to take together. Then these six people are placed in a group conversation on pie, where they can get to know each other before the event.
‘We are starting to feed it [ChatGPT]. And then, when we get feedback loops about who is related to who, and who invites people to things, we will begin to see, well, why people hit it away? “Dunn said.” And I think it’s such a dark art that without the AI turning point, I think it would be an almost unexpected problem. “
By growth concerns Around the level of American loneliness, it may seem depressing that we need algorithms to help us make friends. But if you’ve ever been logged in with a new friend via Instagram, or dating someone from Bumble, then you have already left AI in your social life.
