Dag Kittlaus CEO of Riva Health and Co-founder of Siri and Viv Labs - Voicebot Podcast Ep 321

Dag Kittlaus is the CEO and co-founder of Riva Health, a company
that has set out to revolutionize how patients manage
hypertension and heart disease. We discuss the innovation behind
Riva, which turns a smartphone into a health management assistant
that collects data and connects patients with a proactive care
team.


Hearing Dag talk, you can see how this might extend into
traditional assistant functionality for managing chronic heart
conditions. He breaks down the Riva journey thus far and we go
back into his history as a co-founder of Siri (acquired by Apple)
and Viv Labs (acquired by Samsung) and what he learned along the
way about assistants, technology, and how users interact with
novel solutions. 


We also go into depth on the rise of generative AI and ChatGPT.
From a ChatGPT perspective, we spent considerable time discussing
the new Plugins model to integrate third-party services. Kittlaus
was doing this for the Siri app 15 years ago before the Apple
acquisition. He did it again with Viv Labs and Samsung's Bixby
assistant and knows the challenges of creating a plugin
ecosystem. His observation is that the problems are largely the
same and OpenAI is in for a rude awakening.


I am sure you will enjoy this wide-ranging discussion about
innovation, technology adoption, and overcoming barriers to
growth with someone that has been influential in shaping our
views, experiences, and assumptions about intelligent assistants
of all kinds.