AI Founders

“If you are Thinking of starting an AI native services business and you're like, or any AI company, go and work in an actual entry level job in that sector. You're going to get the level of signal at the deepest possible, most granular level. Nobody can tell yo…”

“We do think a lot of the startups, if you look at AI, the best AI founders generally find their way to the U.S. Right now.”

“Now he can raise it a billion pre for his next startup, and I'm not saying it's liquid, but it's a siren call.”

“I think there's a lot of people who suffer from way too much of it and obsessing over the minute details of like, you know, how, Well, so-and-so got .2% better on this thing, or like, you know, is constant, like constant small changes in businesses out there. …”

“I think that's my recommendation to just be like, execute fast, grow faster and then when you're starting to get up there, you can start, maybe start thinking a bit about the defensibility.”

“AI founders need to tackle monetization from the very early days, like day one in their seed stage, pre-seed kind of thing, which was not probably the focus for, you know, the previous SaaS companies. Why is that so? Because of two reasons. One, there's for th…”

“I don't think all disease will be gone in 10 years. Like the AI founders are saying, I think that's Ridiculous thing to say out loud”

“The density is actually higher than 20 19 for AI for found only for founders, not for SDRs, not for marketing managers, not for everybody else, but for founders”

“And they need a sounding board of board members that are actually, actually using their products and actually have a curiosity to use the rest of AI products and get more native.”

“And so if that's true, and you're trying to risk mitigate all the things that are going to kill you, and it's the age of AI, I don't know why you're not in San Francisco.”

“And you also see just, it's a difference in the kind of founders that are doing this. They tend to be older. They tend to be a little bit more sophisticated.”

“If I'm gonna build my MVP, I'm gonna build it with the startup tech community. That's, like, scary for me to say, because the startup tech by itself, as an, that, that has a high failure rate, so you're gonna have a lot of churn, but it's just where you're gon…”

“On the other side, if you are, like, a founder and AI engineer, I think it's really important to convince yourself that what you're building is valuable. Don't, like, listen to people saying, I have a moat or you don't have a moat. Convince yourself of what th…”