Shawn Wang: belief

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…Yeah. I mean, I can predict that Browsways will be a billion dollar company one day. So let's check back in five years and, you know, if I'm a PM at Coinbase, then something went wrong. Oh, boy. Yeah. Yeah. We picked out a couple of your tweets about Foundry. Yeah. I think you're a pretty building public kind of guy. Yeah. I try to be. I think the main thing that I want to highlight as well is, you emphasized this at the start of your intro, which is you're a solo founder. I think that there's a movement towards more solo founders in the Valley more generally, but people who are hearing this for the first time have no idea. They're like, what do you mean? YC forces me to get a co-founder. Like, what is this? So I've heard you talk about this before, but maybe you want to recap your spiel for folks that haven't heard about it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I've had co-founders in my past company. I love my co-founders. They're my wedding. I think if you want to move extremely fast as a company, one of the hard parts about having co-founders is that there's like, you have to do the co-founder alignment and then the company alignment. And then there's people on the team that probably tell things to one co-founder because they have a favorite. And then like that co-founders represent their interests. Matt Brasway is a benevolent dictatorship. You know, like if I want to make a change, I work with the team and we all decide together. We move quickly. We don't have an extra layer of buy-in within the co-founder layer. Yeah. And frankly, like I think, especially with DevTools companies, if you're able to talk about your product and talk with customers and you can build product, you don't need to have a business guy or a business side. You know, I'm a developer first and foremost. I was raised by two salespeople, so I guess that's why I can talk to customers or something. But at my core- What kind of sales? I love, they did semiconductor and pharmaceutical sales. My mom and dad. Oh, very different. Yeah. Very different.…

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