Ryan Hoover: uncertainty

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…If you'd like to learn more or get started, check out Flatfile at flatfile.com/Lenny. You're such a tech celebrity, everybody knows Product Hunt, everybody knows Ryan Hoover, at least in tech. And I'm curious, how often are you recognized walking down the street in life and has there ever been a super awkward or super hilarious moment of that? Yeah, so Product Hunt started in late 2013 and quickly got a lot of traction in the tech sphere. So yeah, people in tech might recognize me. People outside of tech, doubt they recognize me. I actually do wonder subconsciously if I grew my hair out to avoid being recognized. I'm not sure if that's true or not, but anyway, it's been a couple years or so growing my hair out and I'm like, ah, I just kind of want to disappear sometimes. But in San Francisco where everybody's in tech, there's a lot of that and probably the moment where I was like, oh, this is a thing, it was probably early Product Hunt. I was at... I don't know. If you know this, do you know a club called DNA Lounge and they did something called Booty every Saturday. It was like a mashup dance party. Yep.…

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