Instagram's Growth Secret: Agentic Voice AI To Marketing Teams? | Davin Dong, CEO Cookiy AI

@AIwithArunShow In this episode of the AI with Arun Show, I sit down with Davin Dong, the founder and CEO of Cookiy AI, to uncover the future of agentic voice technology. Davin was one of the early engineers at Instagram, where he led growth science to scale the platform to over a billion users. Now, he’s reinventing consumer research by using autonomous AI agents that conduct real-time, high-EQ voice interviews at scale. Learn how Cookiy AI is turning months of traditional research into a 6-hour automated process, the "Growth Science" secrets from Instagram, and why your next customer interview might be handled by an AI digital twin. Inside this episode: The 10x Advantage: How to get qualitative insights 10x faster and 10x cheaper than traditional agencies. Instagram’s Growth Playbook: Davin’s mathematical approach to scaling products. Technical Breakdown: The architecture behind low-latency, unscripted AI voice conversations. Future Vision: Will AI avatars eventually earn money for you by taking interviews? CTA: Ready to scale your product research? Visit Cookiy.ai and subscribe to AI with Arun Show for more deep dives into the future of AI! Keywords: Agentic AI, Voice AI, Consumer Research, Growth Science, Instagram Engineering, Cookie AI, Davin Dong, AI Agents, Product Market Fit, Autonomous Research. Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Agentic Voice AI 00:01:06 - What is Cookiy AI? 00:02:11 - Qualitative vs. Quantitative Research at Scale 00:03:51 - How the AI Consultant Finds Ideal Users 00:06:10 - Technical Challenges: IQ, EQ, and Latency 00:07:33 - The Architecture of an Agentic Voice System 00:09:34 - Defining Growth Science: Lessons from Instagram 00:11:34 - Applying B2C Growth Funnels to B2B 00:13:00 - Data Privacy, GDPR, and Bias Mitigation 00:16:24 - Insights Hidden in Voice vs. Text Data 00:17:44 - Measuring ROI: 10x Faster and Cheaper 00:19:56 - AI as a Co-pilot for Human Moderators 00:21:20 - Future Vision: Fully Autonomous Research Labs 00:24:04 - The Rise of AI Digital Twins for Users 00:25:40 - Unsolved Technical Hurdles in Voice AI 00:27:39 - Rapid Fire: Biggest Technical Wins & Growth Hacks 00:29:49 - Essential Advice for AI Builders #AI #AgenticAI #VoiceAI #InstagramGrowth #ConsumerResearch #StartupScaling #ArtificialIntelligence #CookieAI #TechTrends2026 #productgrowth #aiwitharunshow #instagram Themes Evolution of Market Research: How agentic AI replaces traditional focus groups and surveys. High-EQ Voice Interaction: The technical challenge of building low-latency, emotionally intelligent AI moderators. Scaling to a Billion Users: Growth science techniques used at Instagram and TikTok Privacy in AI Research: Navigating GDPR and SOC 2 compliance for global consumer data. The Digital Twin Economy: Future monetization through AI avatars participating in research. "Davin Dong reveals exactly how he scaled Instagram to 1 BILLION users and how he's using those same growth science principles to build the future of Voice AI. 🤯 Which part of the 'AI Digital Twin' future do you find most exciting (or scary)? Let's discuss below! 👇" FOR THE COMMUNITY Did you know that traditional consumer research takes 1 month and costs $30,000, but Agentic Voice AI can do it in 6 hours for $2,000? 📉⚡️ I just sat down with Davin Dong, the engineering mind behind Instagram’s massive growth, to talk about his new platform, Cookiy AI. We go deep into: ✅ How to identify your "aha moment" using growth science. ✅ Why text-based surveys are dying and voice data is the future. ✅ The "one line of code" future for AI agent deployment. This episode is a masterclass for founders and builders. Watch it now to get ahead of the curve! Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnOpIzLQgKq0yQGThlNCsqA/join