Mo Abbas

“We were actually hiring An intern for another project we were working on and we had like over a hundred applicants. Nobody had experience and they needed experience. So they would come and volunteer to work with our company.”

“It was a tremendous amount of matching effort to actually get them matched with each other for something that is, you know, relatively low value and should be low touch point. So it just wasn't worth the effort in a way because of the way we were doing it manu…”

“If the conversions are not good, but they're decent, that's totally fine because you know you can improve conversions by building a better product and a better website and better marketing. So if it converts with the shitty ass landing page, you know that you'…”

“So yes, focus is important. It's a bit overrated in a way, But not, there's some things you absolutely need to focus on. Like one vertical made a lot of sense, but you know, focusing on multiple product iterations that could also really work for you because it…”

“And in exchange for mentorship, They get help from their apprentice. 10 hours a week for three months. It's a 120 hour relationship. And it's totally affordable for businesses. They pay a fee to use the marketplace. They can get one or multiple apprentices. Th…”

“So we have over 70,000 apprentices on our platform.”

“And I ended up signing the first 300 businesses myself, just really hustling in Facebook groups.”

“It would be around 200,000 dollars in revenue.”

“There was a time where, when we were growing very quickly in 2019, and we grew the team to, we had a few different, we had a management team, and it became really, really slow, actually. And that was a bad, that was just a bad thing in general for a startup, i…”

“The benefit of Dune is the time horizon. You know, the saga spans over about, over 5000 years. So it really gives you a long-term perspective on things. And I find that to be tremendously valuable in business.”