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Rizk: Pivoting founders should try to invalidate ideas as quickly as possible
“The name of the game isn't like to get attached to your idea. Just like, actually, you should be trying to invalidate this idea as quickly as possible. So get it out there and let people tell you it's a piece of shit.”
Rizk: AI audio creation is a circular, not linear, workflow
“In our minds, we imagined it as a really linear flow. Yeah. That, ah, of course, I want to generate the script, and then I want to generate the audio for it. Where in reality, I don't think it's that linear, to be honest. I think it's very circular in, in how …”
Rizk: Podcasts carry more weight credentializing thought leaders than blogs
“One thing we see that is really useful for podcasts is they actually carry a lot more weight in credentializing you as a thought leader or your company as a thought leader.”
Rizk: Building a new product for a new customer creates an entirely new company
“It's okay to then build another product that caters to the same customer or sell the same product to a different customer. What's really difficult is to build a different product for a different customer because that's just a new company.”
Rizk: Wondercraft has never used LangChain
“You know, I like Langchain. Never used it. Never ever used it.”
Rizk: Wondercraft made $3,000 in one day after adding a Stripe paywall
“But we basically just made that, like, three K in, in, in one day.”
Rizk: Daily Hacker News recap hit Spotify's top 30 tech podcasts
“I think the fact that, so obviously we do the Hacker News recap, the fact that we did that, and that it is daily, actually just helped us reach that top 30 tech podcast on Spotify.”