Isaac Katayev

Founder, Cookieduck Games · 1 appearance on the record.

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Isaac Katayev is a teen programmer who created Cookieduck Games, an unblocked browser-gaming platform built out of a middle school computer class. He also developed Price Satellite, a price-comparison website designed to track luxury goods pricing across multiple countries.

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Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted

Katayev: No competitors have compiled cross-border luxury pricing data

“There's not really like a competitor to this already. It's pretty much a blank area. No one really compiled it.”

Isaac Katayev Oct 22, 2024 ▶ 8:11 Meet the 14yo entrepreneur who's already launched 2 businesses

What they said7 Episodes1

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Assertion Not checkable as stated

Katayev: Cookie Duck gaming site peaked at $1,500 daily ad revenue

“So, in the beginning, when the main cookieduck.com was popular, it was making around a 1500 a day at its peak.”

Isaac Katayev Oct 22, 2024 ▶ 5:14 Meet the 14yo entrepreneur who's already launched 2 businesses

Assertion Contradicted

Katayev: No competitors have compiled cross-border luxury pricing data

“There's not really like a competitor to this already. It's pretty much a blank area. No one really compiled it.”

Isaac Katayev Oct 22, 2024 ▶ 8:11 Meet the 14yo entrepreneur who's already launched 2 businesses

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Katayev: Integrating AI into native phone apps beats building standalone apps

“I feel like AI right now, everyone's trying to build, like, their own different app, but I think that building, like, AI into what we already have, like the messaging app, the phone app, that's really what's going to make AI a lot more convenient for people.”

Isaac Katayev Oct 22, 2024 ▶ 15:50 Meet the 14yo entrepreneur who's already launched 2 businesses

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Katayev: Cookie Duck reached over 4,000 players in 30 minutes in seventh grade

“So by the seventh grade already, we had like over 4000 people playing on it in like 30 minutes.”

Isaac Katayev Oct 22, 2024 ▶ 2:55 Meet the 14yo entrepreneur who's already launched 2 businesses

Insight

Katayev: School Chromebooks are hard to monetize due to anti-tracking protections

“They're, they have, like, a lot of anti-block, anti-tracker, so it's really hard to monetize.”

Isaac Katayev Oct 22, 2024 ▶ 5:29 Meet the 14yo entrepreneur who's already launched 2 businesses

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Katayev: Built his first computer at age eight using YouTube tutorials

“That was for my eighth birthday because my dad wouldn't let me just buy a computer. He wanted me to like actually build my own computer. So I was watching like YouTube tutorials before I asked him if I could build my computer. I was watching YouTube tutorials …”

Isaac Katayev Oct 22, 2024 ▶ 11:29 Meet the 14yo entrepreneur who's already launched 2 businesses

Disclosure

Katayev: PriceSatellite's codebase and 10,000 product descriptions were built using AI

“A lot of Pi satellite is built on AI. So First of all, like the, like a lot of the code base, like the web scraper, the back end, the front end, the styles, all, a lot of that was built off AI. The categorization of products done with AI and the product descri…”

Isaac Katayev Oct 22, 2024 ▶ 14:33 Meet the 14yo entrepreneur who's already launched 2 businesses

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Meet the 14yo entrepreneur who's already launched 2 businesses	Oct 22, 2024	5m

Isaac Katayev

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