Forbes Assistant Managing Editor Katharine Schwab speaks with Decart CEO, Dean Leitersdorf, about how the startup's real-time AI is building immersive digital worlds for fun and creativity. Discover the vision behind their trillion-dollar ambition and how they're set to redefine our interaction with AI beyond productivity, moving past "doom scrolling" into new forms of leisure and entertainment.
Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/2025/08/12/next-billion-dollar-startups-2025/?ctpv=searchpage
0:00 - Introduction: The Trillion-Dollar Question for AI
1:17 - What is Decart? An Antidote to Doom Scrolling
3:00 - How It Works: Turning Your World into Minecraft
4.26 - The Breakthrough: Real-Time Interactive AI Video
6:28 - Beyond Filters: New Use Cases in VR and Gaming
9:02 - Why AI Video is the Next Frontier for the Internet
12:22 - The Tech That Makes Real-Time AI Video Possible
14:15 - Our 'Kilocorn' Ambition: Building a Trillion-Dollar Company
16:32 - The Business Model: How We Plan to Get to $1 Trillion
19:11 - How We Became a Unicorn Before the Ink Was Dry
21:38 - The 3 Companies Inside Decart
24:08 - Meet the CEO: From a '14/100' on His First Exam to a PhD at 23
28:55 - Addressing the 'Scary' Side of Real-Time Video AI
31:02 - My 10-Year Vision: Making the Internet Fun Again
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