My name is Doudou. I'm a technical co-founder building Octoopus,

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OctOpus automates recurring data-science work for enterprise teams. Connect your data, give it a business objective (forecast revenue, predict churn, score leads), and it builds, validates, and delivers the model and report — no data scientist required to operate it. Try it → https://www.octoopus.dev/app

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Why it worked

The video effectively leveraged a personal narrative of overcoming challenges ('Not Homeless, I'm Just a Founder') combined with quantifiable success metrics and a clear aspiration (becoming a unicorn via Y Combinator) to create a compelling story that resonated with viewers.

Summary

The founder of Octoopus, an AI data scientist tool, shares how their product automates data science work for enterprises. The video highlights the company's growth from 35 users to 700, with 25 enterprise pilots, and expresses their ambition to become a unicorn through Y Combinator.

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1Introduction of founder and company
2Explanation of Octoopus's function and founder's background
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We Made Something People ! No the question are you ready for us YC ? @Y Combinator OctOpus YCS26 ? Let’s go! www.octoopus.dev #OctOpus #YC #Unicorn #MakeSomethingPeopleWant

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Octopus (logo appears on screen and on stickers on laptop): This is the name of the company and product being discussed. It acts as an AI data scientist that automates recurring data science work for enterprise teams. Removing it would change the entire context of the video. Y Combinator (mentioned in caption and spoken): This is an organization that funds startups. It merely appears as a mention and a tag, and removing it would not change the video's content.

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OctOpus Not Homeless I'm Just a Founder

Transcript

My name is Doudou. I'm a technical co-founder building Octoopus, the first autonomous AI data scientist that automates recurring data science work for enterprise teams. I did a PhD in AI applied to hydrology, flood and weather forecasting, published four papers and for the last 10 years, I've been in the data science space, working for one of the largest logic six companies. One of the solutions I shipped at Mercs is saving $8 million per year. Combined the knowledge from research and corporate work to build real products. How do people want what we made? We demo our product to WMO, the World Meteorological Organization. They loved our product and are already piloting with us, including the United Nations, the United States, and the United Kingdom, and other startups in the United States in the YC ecosystem. How videos went viral on social media? In our previous YC, we only had 35 users. Today we have 700 users, 25 enterprise pilots that we would like to convert as recurring revenue. That's why we apply to YC to convert our pilots, accelerate our growth, benefit from YC's ecosystem and network and be a unicorn.