This AI Rips Your Face Off

Dima Shvets, Reface

Before the recent AI craze, Dima Shvets and his cofounders invented Reface, the viral tool that lets people rip a face from a photo and replace it with theirs.

He says it’s doing tens of millions in revenue and was downloaded by over 270 million people, but it only happened because of a huge failure.

Dima Shvets

Reface

Dima Shvets is the cofounder of Reface, the AI video & photo generating company

[00:00:00] Andrew Warner: hey, they’re freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. And joining me is someone whose app you have probably played with. Even if it’s not directly, then it’s probably because your friends have sent you videos using his software or because there’s a collection of avatars that were created using his software.

Schvitz is the co-founder of Reface. It’s the AI video and photo generating company. You can take your photo and they’ll give you these beautiful avatars, or they will turn turn it into a music video, or they’ll change it in one way or the other. That’s the idea here. It’s done phenomenally well.

I invited ’em here to talk about how they did it and we could do it. Thanks to my sponsor, lemon.io. Later on, I’ll tell you why. If you’re hiring developers, you...

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