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Baris is an experienced CTO and he has gained experience in the domain since 2018. Mert Kucuk has been our AI researcher, who has been doing research in computer vision for over 12 years. His AI startup (computer vision) was funded by YC in 2014. After that, he has been a critical part of various AI-enabled tech early-stage and growth-stage startups. Volkan Cirik - CMU Ph.D. on NLP - has been our advisor for the application of Generative AI in our future plans. Our Head of Pro..."},{"question":"Please advise how much does it take to get answered, is it 10 minutes, 15 minutes or 30 minutes? Why do you have different number of minutes in different places?","answer":"Hi Aldert, in our pilot market, where we are using AI in full scale, our average response time is below 10 minutes (7 minutes at the moment). In the US, where we help students only manually through our tutor network, our average response time is 15 minutes. 95% of our questions are answered below 30 minutes. Thank you for asking for clarification. I'll do the needed edits on our deck to avoid any confusion."},{"question":"Chegg is a large corporation. What is your defensibility against them in case they focus their resources and achieve comparable or higher speed, reconsider their pricing plans and come up with the same affordable option, and copy your interactivity ideas?","answer":"Hi Aldert, This is a David vs Goliath game and every feature we have means a significant impact on their bottom line. Making their service faster, more affordable, or interactive only comes with a higher cost of goods sold. Making such drastic changes in your bottom line requires an explanation to your public market investors and, regardless, it reflects on your stock price. For these reasons, they will be incapable of acting on it before it's too late. The mains reasons we are able to do tha..."},{"question":"Does your SAFE have a discount relative to the next funding round? 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Before getting into the exciting part, I would like to remind you one last time to\u0026nbsp;reconfirm and complete your investment amount here\u0026nbsp;🚨 We need your help to finalize the round as effectively as we have brought to this day 🙏🏼Last but not least, you can find our growth trajectory since YC S18 in the chart below 📈 If you have any question, I'll be more than happy to answer your questions. Please feel free to email - basar@kunduz.c...","published_at":"2023-06-04T16:08:46Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/feed/164328"},{"id":164308,"entity_id":"wefunder:feed_item:164308","title":"⛳️ Update on the Round: Last 3 days...","preview":"Dear all,Due to a rescheduling request from the Wefunder Team, we have moved the final day of the round to Monday, June 5th. By then, all you need to do is reconfirm and complete your investment amount here ⬅️If you did it so, you have nothing else to do 🙌🏼 We will be sharing one final update this weekend with you all. and it has some exciting news...We are thrilled to have each of you on board.Have a great weekend!BasarCo-founder \u0026 Co-CEO","published_at":"2023-06-02T19:42:34Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/feed/164308"},{"id":164156,"entity_id":"wefunder:feed_item:164156","title":"Last 3️⃣ days for our Wefunder campaign: What is left to do?","preview":"Happy Friday all!Before the final weekend of our campaign starts, I would like to put together a list of things that might be important for you: 🦄 \"I have made the payment for my committed amount to Wefunder. Is there anything else I should be doing?\" - You are all set! If you would like to invest more or invite a friend, simply follow or share the link ↙️ . (PSA: There is a $118 perk for those who invest more than $250.) 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