He Rejected Apple Twice Before He Created Midjourney

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ABOUT JOHN COOGAN:
I am the co-founder of soylent.com and lucy.co, both of which were funded by Y Combinator (Summer 2012 and Winter 2018).
I've been an entrepreneur for the last decade across multiple companies. I've done a lot of work in Silicon Valley, so that's mostly what I talk about. I've raised over 10 rounds of venture capital totaling over $100m in funding.
I work mostly in tech-enabled consumer packaged goods, meaning I use software to make the best products possible
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Disclaimer: This video is purely my opinion and should not be regarded as a primary source. I am not a financial advisor and this is not a recommendation to buy or sell securities. Always do your own due diligence.

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@korymortensen830 10 ай бұрын

Just discovered your channel today. Love the production value and persona, and the way information is displayed. Thank you.

@joshuarileymagic 11 ай бұрын

I never knew that the Midjourney founder also founded Leap Motion, I still have one of their old Leap Motion units at home as I was fascinated by it during college

@Munthasir123 11 ай бұрын

This channel is criminally underrated. Can’t wait for you to blow up like CoffeZilla!

@SaddamHussain-we9ec 11 ай бұрын

David seems to be like a far greater personality than anybody else in tech.

@garvkhatwani8627 Жыл бұрын

glad your startup series is back 🔥

@beautyandthesavage 11 ай бұрын

John, what an impeccable job! Loved hearing about one of my favorite geeky dudes in such a casual, friend-to-friend way. Thanks!!

@Nutrisof 11 ай бұрын

Nice name tho btw.

@Ailidan 11 ай бұрын

he invented stealing machine god job.

@ryandgarland Жыл бұрын

Great video and entertaining way to tell this story. Thanks for sharing 👍

@seafffoam 5 ай бұрын

John, this is such an excellent and informative video! Thank you for making this! I've been loving exploring creatively in Midjourney and basically found your video by searching why the program was created. As a graphic designer, it is most definitely helping me deal with the "thinking overwhelms doing" reality I often battle with. It's been surprisingly SO helpful in that regard.

@christymullins1022 11 ай бұрын

i always wattch out for your videos, they are amazing!!! keep it up the sky is your limit

@winterdedavid 11 ай бұрын

Impressive storytelling, John, subbed!

@zeusluby1290 11 ай бұрын

Excellent video. I was fascinated when I heard about Leap Motion and it’s emerging tech. I purchased it as soon as the first batch was available. I always wondered what came of that company.

@ishish8816 11 ай бұрын

7:49 underneath the bite of the apple logo you can see Jacob from Funhaus !

@seanmartinflix 11 ай бұрын

Your so good at what you do. Going to need to watch this more then couple times.

@wendifyplus 11 ай бұрын

I really loved the story format you used from this point 5:45 I guess its a better way to get people engaged e.g myself lol

@ripplesr5655 10 ай бұрын

Wow dude! The way you actually present the whole thing, can't resist but watch and listen in awe. Talk about captivating your audience.

@JosephMorin 11 ай бұрын

Great video, just earned my subscription! This was intensely fascinating.

@tthompson9244 11 ай бұрын

Your content is so interesting and informative, I'm surprised you don't have millions of subscribers.

@sasmills 11 ай бұрын

I think his appearance doesn't reflect edge. His work has lots of edge which is part of why it's so good, but he looks like the least edgy, most clean cut guy, ever. Jake tran when he was still showing his face matched the edginess of his videos in his appearance. James Jani, and the borders guy, all have an edgier appearance that seems to say, "yes this is my work and I'm the sole creator. " even though they probably have a team... it just matches their appearance and personal style.

@Zheliya 11 ай бұрын

no matter what you think, that guy shouldn't have had to even compete, we put years and years to learn to draw, and all of the complexity that comes with it, just for someone to go and generate an image in 20 min and win. so no they shouldn't be allowed to compete. as an individual that dreamed of becoming an artist for the longest time it truly broke me that he won something that he didn't work for.

@safiulfaiyaz7038 10 ай бұрын

Nope if you think that creating an AI like that requires no skill then you my man should really stay in your lane. If I were in your place, I would be like; I'm going to make such bombastic art that even AI generated ones cannot compete with my creations. Would I be able to do it? I wouldn't know, not unless I tried

@mk8_it 9 ай бұрын

@@safiulfaiyaz7038 the hell are you talking about !? what skills besides entering text prompts are you speaking of when it comes to Ai image generators from people who could not even hold a bush correctly to paint a straight line?, please elaborate... and make a strong comparison to art work that takes people years or a life time to learn the technics to produce by hand with not just with paint but in multiple mediums. like the Mona Lisa, Im sure you heard of that work ,please explain to me how much physical skill and talent you needed to exert to come up with a digital equivalent by entering text prompts on discord?

@MrSuperaptor 11 ай бұрын

Love your videos man such top tier quality

@smtabatabaie 11 ай бұрын

It's good to also have a brief description of the video in the video description

@Jack-pf6lv Жыл бұрын

That why you don't want to reject some technical dude

@teawa_ 11 ай бұрын

Logically Answered literally just made a video about how tech companies hire people just to prevent them from going to work for competition, its a great watch

@monos112 11 ай бұрын

Click bait Title he rejected Apple

@johnrperry5897 11 ай бұрын

How do comments like this get any votes. This comment makes no sense.

@Licardo7 11 ай бұрын

@@johnrperry5897it’s sarcasm

@timotheeedogbo9972 11 ай бұрын

Nice to see something really different. huge fan.

@rpuig3974 10 ай бұрын

great docs John really entertaining and interesting

@grahamgoddard1150 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for this informative video John.

@aijunky 11 ай бұрын

This was a great video John, really 👍

@rigg13 Жыл бұрын

Awesome piece John.

@DarkBow_ 11 ай бұрын

Pretty Epic, I leaned a lot, thanks!

@Elshaibi 11 ай бұрын

Great video John really enjoyed your work

@fastonchisanga5194 Жыл бұрын

Heads up John you are always my favourite hey John would make a video about the history of Google would really appreciate ❤

@damirsfist Ай бұрын

Great content! Good analysis of the business model and the phrase - "Don't think about features, think about how the user learns" should be etched in stone.

@mickeygold3091 11 ай бұрын

videos are educating, every part of the video was well explained

@michaelwisniewski6047 10 ай бұрын

Just discovered your channel. Great stuff. And I adore your voice, you have real talent there!

@ilanser 11 ай бұрын

Amazing video, thank you for that. Seems like you and you and your team put a lot of research effort to come up with such detailed explanation

@jason-sk9oi 11 ай бұрын

Exceptional content. Bravo!

@user-zn9ho2cd8g 11 ай бұрын

I have started to hate Ai generate artworks more and more, that to me all of the works look so scary

@spyUGC 9 ай бұрын

You make a great video, and learned a lot, thanks for making this.

@youngbillionaire022 11 ай бұрын

I can't skip his new videos.

@prakash_77 11 ай бұрын

Great video John!

@Modenut 11 ай бұрын

Incredibly similar upbringing to Mark Zuckerberg. His dad was also a dentist who needed computers 😄

@ralify 11 ай бұрын

Anyone else noticed that this released after NFTs crashed and that most NFTs were probably AI generated by a bot like this?

@thejonycrash 11 ай бұрын

I am obsessed with your videos! I would argue tho that the reason leap motion wasn't successful is because the new proposed user interaction paradigm wasn't as compelling as what was already there. It sounds awesome, but it's not as fast or practical as a mouse/keyboard/voice/touch screen.

@michaelwisniewski6047 10 ай бұрын

It's also because we LIKE to touch things.

@ThePodiums 11 ай бұрын

Quality information and educative at that

@DannyBoy443 11 ай бұрын

There are a LOT of artists wanting to send anthrax to this guys house lol.

@morjer5263 11 ай бұрын

By his own logic it would be fine to shoot him in the face. Holz once argued the artists whose work he used to train his AI have no right to complain. They should never have uploaded their work to internet. According to him, what's on the internet is fair game. This means that if he ever leaves his house, making himself accessible to the public, he should be fair game to all artists, doesn't it?

@emmanuelukaogo9643 11 ай бұрын

I really love your videos.

@maxcolvin9209 11 ай бұрын

You do a really great show sir.

@jesusegunalagbe3205 11 ай бұрын

What a compelling way to tell a story!

@MiradaGlobal 11 ай бұрын

Hi, I've been watching your videos, and I really enjoy your content. This time, I found it exceptionally interesting to have this information, so I took the liberty of translating it into Spanish. I hope you don't mind-I have no intention of monetizing or anything like that; that's not my intention. I genuinely appreciate all the information you share and the research you put into each video, and my only interest is to share it with more people. :) Once again, thank you for sharing all this valuable information

@richeyrich2203 11 ай бұрын

You can do whatever you want with it if you’re not monetizing it.

@m1tab 11 ай бұрын

Excellent video, u have another subscriber, and 👍

@frida507 4 ай бұрын

Very interesting and well made video!

@arupsan 10 ай бұрын

I still remember I purchased leap motion sensor when they released first version … I guess 2011? I still have that but it stays in box only … I hardly use it … same I can say for oculus It is just not comfortable yet specially for people who have glasses .. but yes this are amazing experiences …

@zhuzhou 11 ай бұрын

Speed has improved - I have mine set to use turbo mode, and it's about 5-6s per

@IIIw2 11 ай бұрын

you should have added the scene from back to the future. Marty McFly: I guess you guys aren't ready for that, yet. But your kids are gonna love it.

@MannyBernabe 11 ай бұрын

So good. 🔥🔥🔥 Love the "lessons learned" segment.

@_remma 11 ай бұрын

Loved the video

@GudieveNing 9 ай бұрын

I have a Leap Motion device. Bought it soon as it was released. However as we and BMW* soon discovered, air gestures are too tiresome, no matter how cool they look in Minority Report. Had no idea David was behind it. Great and insightful video! *Some of their cars allow air gestures as part of iDrive.

@engrgit 11 ай бұрын

Awesome presentation.

@markonfilms 10 ай бұрын

Wow i have been using Midjourney from the start and I didn't know he was involved with Leap! That little bar was one of the coolest things I've ever used. I miss it.

@anthonypace5354 11 ай бұрын

but midjourney uses, just as with all the image generators, unlicensed stolen data to train their models.

@AbdallahBotan 11 ай бұрын

Well done John.

@Dragon3D 11 ай бұрын

Dispite the title being slightly misleading, It's defeinitly still interesting!

@jamil.12 7 ай бұрын

Great work👍

@HolowatyVlogs 11 ай бұрын

*”David’s dad was a dentist.”* Hold up….

@ctwolf 11 ай бұрын

This was superb

@visavou 11 ай бұрын

wow john thanks for this

@ikemathieu6946 11 ай бұрын

fantastic video

@akirhamza 11 ай бұрын

The Midjourney bot does a fairly good job of giving you what you want if you're specific enough with your initial prompt. Using this tool online is great for producing a dynamic range of images that might meet your needs.

@JohnCooganPlus 11 ай бұрын

It is an incredible tool. Our team is using it more and more for concepting during the production process.

@YannMetalhead 10 ай бұрын

Good video!

@ArmandoMenicacci 11 ай бұрын

Really impeccable, deep analysys. You are what makes Internet great.

@playgemji 10 ай бұрын

Early Leap consumer and love it! Once you have it, you start noticing it in many movies, videos and workplaces.

@gameb30232 11 ай бұрын

do wonder dynamics next!

@jaynotjoe7589 10 ай бұрын

That was a great watch, he’s super smart hey,

@antwerp-s1e 11 ай бұрын

David looks like that mad ghost form train

@thebush6077 11 ай бұрын

Did not know it was the dude who made leap motion

@MellowMutated 11 ай бұрын

I remember playing Star Wars Dark Forces on PSX back in the day, fond memories

@Jennn 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for telling us David's story, it's really inspiring!

@djasniverajaona9163 11 ай бұрын

Excellent Video. I like it.

@stash_necklace 11 ай бұрын

Nice job!

@prosunsport1 11 ай бұрын

Excellent overview, is there an application on Android for mid journey

@filterdecay 11 ай бұрын

David, Destroyer of worlds

@ThePodiums 11 ай бұрын

Nice job bro

@ggvlog8236 11 ай бұрын

Best youtube channel. I don't tell anybody about this channel.

@Peter-wp5vb 10 ай бұрын

You should spread good news as you discover it

@sumthinfresh 10 ай бұрын

Presenter has the "here's what happened next" intensity the whole time.

@RickOShay 11 ай бұрын

Excellent video. I've only been a subscriber to your channel for a short while - thank you for the super high quality and engaging content. Wrt Apple - their inability to innovate and take chances is one of the main reasons Apple is so far behind in ML and the race to create AGI. It can be summarized in one sentence, the fear of failure has paralyzed them.

@stacycowman7573 11 ай бұрын

What is ml what Is agi

@lolfelixlol 11 ай бұрын

ML = Machine learning AGI = artificial general intelligence (ai that mimic human thinking).

@stacycowman7573 11 ай бұрын

@@lolfelixlol thanks

@laulaja-7186 11 ай бұрын

Apple, Microsoft, IBM, many others... What do tech giants pretty much have in common? As their use of the buzzword "Innovation!" increases, their actual implementation of it decreases proportionally.

@andreypopov6166 11 ай бұрын

@@lolfelixlolAI should not mimic "thinking" ?)))) ML is a subset of AI and also mimic "thinking" . The goal of all these "stuff" is do the same as a human would...

@salvadorguntherr9673 11 ай бұрын

Lool. Wow a random reference to the Scheme programming language. Lol

@yagoa 11 ай бұрын

I would have bought it, but never heard of it obviously not only a market fit issue, it needed integration into another product, accessibility would have been a great fit

@iuc7254 11 ай бұрын

I also love david holtz's banger tweets😅

@william_8844 11 ай бұрын

5:00 I remeber there was a video back in the day Elon Musk using leap motion

@TomiOnDesign 11 ай бұрын

There were doctored pictures in the past though… so yea would have imagined. It’s just easier to do now

@Hollowdude15 11 ай бұрын

Midjourney really achieve something so amazing and great video man :]

@paulcostache6733 10 ай бұрын

I think the concern that artists will find it more difficult to make a living is not misplaced, just think about the posters you have in the background to get a feel for that.

@rasheedstarlet 11 ай бұрын

pfff! Alan didn't invent the GUI that goes to Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the Mouse as well.

@AnshMehraa 11 ай бұрын

Really really well written! thanks!

@AcesizOfficial 11 ай бұрын

Legend

@pamboabubakar6052 10 ай бұрын

You got me laughing at "lot's of super smart, slightly aimless people do" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@galleon8129 10 ай бұрын

David’s quote about water is an advise to Sam Altman and AI Luddites

@realcodeninja 11 ай бұрын

J***n rejected me I built productX. So inspiring, I am glad you made this video very impactful!

@0dyss3us51 11 ай бұрын

That title tho 😂

@nixielee 11 ай бұрын

It's also serious copyright infringement. Midjourney is cool and all, but the real winner of future AI generation will be data, and they haven't paid for theirs. There is no chance this company can succeed, because if it does the entertainment industry is over.

@morpheus2573 6 ай бұрын

Discord sucks the life out of Midjourney. They made a huge mistake by shackling their users to a low rent chat UI that was never designed to cope with the potential of MJ. Now they are between the worlds as they try to extricate themselves from Discord by transferring to a web UI.

@Carpathianrelinquished 5 ай бұрын

It does as well a it’s idiotic rude nerd mods. MJ needs to do 100% better with its support especially for paying customers.

@morpheus2573 5 ай бұрын

@@Carpathianrelinquished 💯% /imagine prompt: running a multi million dollar company and being too stingy to hire a professional customer service dept! Total amateur-land. P!$$e$ me off.