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“I don't think that's where it will go. Like, I feel like standalone AI humans is like never going to be a thing. I think every, like, I feel like every conversation is not driven by like the context, bro. Like, I feel like this is a human conversation that we …”

“We wrote our first lines of code 10 weeks ago. All of a sudden we have like over a million dollars of enterprise revenue coming in.”

“I got accepted to Harvard early, and then later that year, I was just always doing crazy shit, and I snuck out of a school field trip past curfew, like, the police had to come and escort me back, because we were out at, like, two a.m., we were all, like, 1617,…”

“I think everyone's going to inevitably get the translucent overlay. This is how an integrated AI should feel, and, like, Apple shows everyone that, like, liquid glass is the translucent overlay that, that, that, that will be the form factor of AI in the future…”

“Every company is getting less and less... Sorry, more and more controversial. Yeah. Less professional. This trend is not dying anytime soon.”

“Like I think phone, like in five years, I would question whether phone is the dominant consumer use case.”

“There's maybe two, three competitors in this, maybe, maybe two, three competitors who are actually trying to take a meaningful stab at a desktop assistant, and there's way more money and way more value in this than people think.”

“Distribution is going at the end of the more important than anything. Technology could work backwards. You don't have distribution. You don't have a sustainable business.”

“The chat bot is obviously the wrong interface. What is the correct interface? I think Apple is exploring, like every, every single smart glass company, Apple, like they're exploring the idea of AI integrated in your life. And what this looks like for them is l…”

“Right now we make more money off enterprise than consumer, which is pretty crazy. But I think it's because we're still warming up the marketing for consumer and they're larger customers than consumers are. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like the contracts, like are l…”

“Like, InterviewCoder, before we hired anyone, hit, like, three mil ARR, and then and then we started hiring people.”

“I think the first step of the pyramid is Twitter or people on Twitter are about two years behind when it comes to humor compared to people on Instagram, TikTok.”

“Virality is really important, but it means nothing if you can't do it consistently. But if you can do it consistently, then it's the most powerful thing in the world, and it will make you untouchable.”

“Like we're literally profitable and we spent, like we spent as much money as we can. There's almost zero expense that goes unapproved by us.”

“What I've learned is, if you have a post, you're, if you're in tech Twitter, and you have a post that does over, say, 40,000 impressions, you've hit pretty much every relevant decision maker in tech.”

“50 interns never meant 50 interns. Well, not, not, not 50 actual in-person interns the same way that you think about them today, but it means, like, five interns and, like, say, 45 UGC creators.”

“Cluley launch video was a 140,000. Yeah. It was before the raise, too, so at the time it was, like, our entire life savings.”

“I think if there ever was a role model for my, sort of, controversial polarizingness hitting escape velocity and just being able to, like, go to the, I do whatever the fuck I want zone, it's Elon.”

“Probably like, fucking four percent. Like, things will revert back to the mean all. Like, humans will always find new jobs except for the four percent of people that just don't want to work.”

“Nobody's gonna be on a chatbot, chatbot.com.”

“I mean, the percentages get even more skewed at the higher level schools, but I will say out of every single person I've met at Columbia campus, there is not a single undergraduate who hasn't cheated on at least one assignment using AI.”

“The consumer brain forget things very quickly, like, I'd say maybe 40 hours for any hyperviral moment to lose its relevance.”

“If you think someone who is a creator who makes content for us part-time, gets paid for making content and the content directly converts into like it is like marketing expense, then yeah, we probably have over like 500 interns. But if you think about interns, …”

“And this is something that I've said before, but I guarantee, like, my videos do not go as viral on Instagram, like, Instagram TikTok. And the sole reason is because on those platforms, they are not controversial enough.”

“What we realized after we got about, like, two hundred fifty million impressions on the whole scenario is, like, wow, we just got so many eyeballs on this thing”

“And as a result, like now we're past like a billion views overall on clue.”

“I think it's inevitable that in about two or three years, we will have models that are multimodal, large context windows, are capable of reasoning over, say, three hours of a screen recording.”

“I think the most important thing with a video going viral is like, do people think that it's real? And if there's even like a slight hesitation, like, oh, this might not be real, this feels AI, then There's formats that that kills.”

“Who I am online is like the craziest person ever. I'm optimizing for one thing, and that's eyeballs on Cluey.”

“The version of the app that we have is just a desktop app has complete access to your screen and your system audio. So it sees everything you're seeing and it hears everything you're hearing and can help with that context.”

“Senior year of high school, I get into Harvard early action. Later that year, I get rescinded from Harvard for a suspension that I received for sneaking out of a school field trip. I, well, specifically I get rescinded because they didn't report the suspension…”

“I ended up getting into Columbia, actually, while I was at community college and then I sort of went to Columbia with the intention of leaving as soon as possible, as soon as I found like a co-founder and a wife.”

“We went in thinking we're going to try to do three million dollars at thirty million valuation, but like just People kept coming in, so we had to close it at one point, so we closed at 5.3 at 30, but literally you get two more hours of investor calls and we pr…”

“Probably, like, two weeks ago, we launched live meeting notes, and that was the first, like, retention tripled pretty much overnight, and I think that's the point where we realized, like, okay, we have something that is genuinely working.”

“My parents literally run like a college admissions consulting company. So we literally teach kids how to get into Harvard.”

“We did fix the mill led by Angriest.”

“The round in total lasted less than 24 hours.”

“I think, like, literally six months ago, I was some random college kid in a dorm, and now I feel like I'm at the center of the tech universe.”

“Over half a team is friends that I met from community college actually. And the other people are my co-founder who dropped out and also the guy who's probably going to be valedictorian of Columbia.”