Pivoting After Y Combinator: Thomas Minassian on .Wave

Thomas Minassian, co-founder and CEO of .Wave, on how his team pivoted from Dollyglot to .Wave after Y Combinator. Dollyglot's first app cloned a voice from under 15 seconds of audio and was used in French ad campaigns. Then came YC's Winter 2025 batch, real-time video avatars from a single photo, and the pivot to an inference engine for streaming AI models such as full-duplex voice. The team reports 56 times more real-time sessions on one H100. A swanbase Startup Recette: 45 minutes of interview with no slides, then 15 minutes of questions. It falls during The Nest, so that week's founder cohort will be in the room. Thursday 19 November, 19:00 to 20:30, Paris 2e; the address comes after registration. Free, 60 places, approval-gated. In French. Why go: a first-hand pivot story from consumer app to GPU infrastructure. Best for founders weighing a pivot or building on real-time AI.