Michael Lingelbach
13 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 18, 2025 by Michael Lingelbach · across every show →
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Aug 18, 2025
Lingelbach dropped out of his Stanford PhD right before his defense
“I had submitted my green light meeting to go do my defense, and then I told my advisors, like, hey, like, I want to take some time off immediately, because, like, I feel like if I wait to do my defense in, like, five months I'm gonna miss this, like, big oppor…”
Aug 18, 2025 positive
Aug 18, 2025 bullish
Lingelbach: Future Hedra will automate professional podcast video editing from footage
“So I think, like, in the future version of Hydra, you could chuck some video in and some character references in and say, hey, like, edit this podcast and get something out that felt really professional with very little work.”
Aug 18, 2025 bearish
Aug 18, 2025 positive
Lingelbach: Early AI startups need an early designer with the founder as PM
“What I realized is you need to product, you need to productionize it and need to like solve specific need for people. And I think that really involves getting at least like one really good product designer in early. You being a really, like the founder needs t…”
Aug 18, 2025 neutral
Lingelbach manually onboarded unpaid influencers 10 hours a day to launch Hedra
“I took, like I took a four day sprint of basically doing 10 hours a day onboarding influencers onto the platform, which is really annoying at the time because we had no, like, feature flags, nothing. It was just, like, very much, like, get, like, manually addi…”
Aug 18, 2025
Lingelbach: Hedra Survived a Co-Founder Departure During Early Tech Pivots
“When my, like, co-founder left that was, like, another time where I was like, okay, like, I have to go bark on this, like, really big quest, and there's gonna be a huge, I think there's gonna be a huge payoff at the end of the road, but it still seems really f…”
Aug 18, 2025 bullish
Lingelbach: AI models will be sufficient for most use cases in six months
“I think in six months the capabilities of these models are going to be good enough for, like, most of the use cases that you'll need, and, like, a lot of it is going to be, can you build vertical specific workflows that, like, solve, like, specific pain points…”
Aug 18, 2025
Aug 18, 2025 positive
Lingelbach: Series A to C veterans make the best seed-stage hires
“And oftentimes, like, the, I think the people that are the Best for, like, setting up a seed stage company are the people that did, like, a Series A to, like, Series C stint, where they've, like, seen, like, completely green-fielded systems. They know how to, …”
Aug 18, 2025
Aug 18, 2025 neutral
Lingelbach: People underestimate the difficulty of recruiting before raising funding
“It's really hard to convince people to join you when you have no money. Like, I think people underestimate the difficulty. Because people are like, oh, you know, you drop out of Stanford, like, you know, it's, like, just everything falls in place. It's not exa…”