GenAI Meets Celebrity: Inside Cameo’s Journey from Startup to Stardom

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This week, David is joined by Dom Scandinaro, CTO at Cameo, the platform that allows users to send personalized videos from celebrities and creators. Scandinaro gives an in-depth overview of Cameo’s rapid growth from a simple idea into a robust and deeply personalized fan experience platform with the digital infrastructure to match. Join us as we discuss: - How Cameo’s tech stack has evolved as the company expands globally - Why leaders need to have an in-depth understanding of their team’s abilities - and limitations - How Cameo is harnessing Generative AI for new products and platform features. GenAI Meets Celebrity: Inside Cameo’s Journey from Startup to Stardom 00:00 Introduction 01:03 About Dom Scandinaro and what is Cameo 04:34 How has Cameo's tech stack evolved? 06:07 Dom's work on push notifications 07:55 Who is the most popular celebrity on Cameo? 09:56 What can impact traffic on Cameo? 13:37 What regions does Cameo deploy in? 14:26 Creating Cameo Kids with Generative AI 18:52 Improving celebrity profile pages with Generative AI 25:53 Open AI or Claude or Mistral? 27:59 The benefits of Claude and AWS Bedrock 29:21 AI models for voice cloning 30:34 How to approach scalability in AI 32:25 From engineer to head of engineering to CTO 35:55 What is the engineering culture at Cameo like? 39:47 Dom's biggest accomplishments at Cameo 41:55 The hottest AI trends / Predictions in AI Big Ideas In App Architecture is a #techpodcast presented by Cockroach Labs for architects and engineers who are building modern, data-intensive applications and systems. In each weekly episode, an innovator joins host David Joy to share useful insights from their experiences building reliable, scalable, maintainable systems. Listen and subscribe at https://cockroa.ch/3PVpT2S #generativeAI #systemdesign