Mark Coatney

Mark Coatney

San Francisco

I build new things. I started as the second employee of Time magazine’s new Website and grew it from a single, text-only webpage to a multimedia platform with millions of users.

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The AI Art That Speaks for Itself

We’re at that stage with AI now. While everyone is complaining about the quality of the product (It’s slop! It’s soulless! It’s completely inaccurate!), I think we miss the deeper issue, which is this: Almost everyone is using AI to do the same thing they did before, just faster/cheaper/easier. 

Hello, World!

First off, and to avoid any confusion, we are not the pet sitter marketplace. (Yes, I know. I'm disappointed too.) Instead, Rover is an audio-first, AI-driven social content platform. What does that mean?

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