Victor Riparbelli

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Synthesia CEO Victor on Real-Time Avatars & Role Play Sessions

Synthesia's CEO Victor returns after being one of ETN's first-ever guests. He walks through last week's launch of Role Play Sessions — real-time avatars that role-play customers for sales and manager training, with live coaching, scoring and a 'talent graph' for executives — and predicts the rise of agent-to-human meetings and simulation-based education. He explains how Synthesia gates bets on new technology and spins up isolated teams for new products, reprises his TED argument that text is lossy compression and most communication will go visual, and closes on open vs closed models, 'token maxing' versus value maxing, and his internal note against AI slop writing.