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15 transcript-backed records
01 / uncertainty
“I don't know how to articulate that feeling, but that flutter in your stomach that you wake up with in the morning of just anxiety and stress and worry.”
02 / uncertainty
“We lived in Hollywood up in the hills for a while, so I don't know if that's east or west, but wherever that is, big fan.”
03 / uncertainty
“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.”
04 / belief
“Generally a lot of people they manufacture PR speak there too. And so speaking more like a human I think is important.”
05 / uncertainty
“I don't know what happened to Web4. So I don't know, maybe I'm going to split the difference, I'm going to go Web4.”
06 / preference
“I have a recumbent bike at home that I use for exercise. And the reason why it's recumbent and not like a Peloton where you sit up is because I can do bills and work basically while I'm exercising.”
07 / evaluation
“There's always contextual differences, but generally the easier it is to build a great solution for those people because now you can actually hone in the product experience, the messaging and everything to serve exactly those people.”
08 / evaluation
“I think consumer social or games, building games is probably the hardest and the one filled with the most failures. And I think a lot of that is because a few things.”
09 / prediction
“Because Product Hunt on one side, you are potentially attracting people who might be future users and customers, partners and so on.”
10 / preference
“You also don't want to subject them to the same anxiety that you're feeling and be 100% transparent. So it's a struggle because I think, I don't know, I value authenticity so much and I kind of thrive around people who are authentic.”
11 / commitment
“And I've just been waiting for him to start a company. And so that was one of those, I'm going to bet on you because I believe in you.”
12 / evaluation
“In that, you are really pulling in experts in their domain expertise to find answers or inspiration. And I've always liked that format because one, it, I think, leads to better results, better content, better answers, but also it's arguably easier.”
13 / recommendation
“And what mattered most was growth and to grow the community. But what I really should have done is dedicated maybe 10% of our focus on revenue generation, because once we started generate revenue, we did so very quickly and we got to cashflow breakeven, I want to say a year, maybe 12 months after we started generating revenue.”
14 / evaluation
“So there is a scenario where if I had more money, then maybe I wouldn't have raised venture capital. But yeah, there's a lot of other decisions and other things that probably bigger mistakes I think I made.”
15 / evaluation
“I make mistakes all the time, but at the end it's going to be way net positive because you kind of have to, just to [inaudible 00:35:59] your company anyway.”