Teen founder Isaac Katayev discusses his viral gaming proxy site Cookie Duck with hosts Sean Puri and Sam Parr.
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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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 …”
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…”