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Q percent money back guarantee. Who does that nowadays? So check it out. Highly recommend BoringMarketing.com. There's some people who work a 120 hours a week who don't leave their house and just work, work, work, work. Um, and I'm not of that belief. I think that you come up with good ideas and clarity of thought when, when you, Work a bit more when you're more balanced. Do you agree?

A Yeah. You just got to kind of like putter around, honestly, and like, just kind of walk around in new environments, especially, and just kind of make sure that you're right. Like, again, I think people think I work very hard. Uh, maybe I give that impression off Twitter, although I don't think I really do. I'm mostly posting pictures of motorcycles, but, um, like, um, I feel like I, the w how I work hard is in trying to make sure that I'm going to work hard for the right thing. Right? Like, I think there was a famous I entirely, I feel like I switched my mind on this because I, I heard this, this thing about, I think, Einstein back in the day where he's like, if you gave me 20 hours to solve a problem, I'd spend 19 hours defining it or something like that. Um, and is that kind of true, right? Like, it's so easy to go forwards in the right direction when you're sure that is the right direction, I guess. And like, I think almost everyone that I know, honestly, works really hard on like the first Like it's not even the first direction. It's like the first, like, cause you can, you can keep the same direction. It's just like, I think the first angle or the first like starting point of that direction, like people just, um, people just immediately send it. And I think like you do get to a point where you are very, again, in tune with your intuition and you're able to, um, really send…

AI assessment note: “Yeah. You just got to kind of like putter around, honestly”

Q Every real idea is gonna be technical. What do you mean by that?

A I mean, I, I can't think of any startup ideas that would be inherently, I mean, like, okay, like no matter what you're working on, even if it's like a shovel, you know, a really good shovel, somebody is going to need to engineer it and like, sure, your role, if you're listening to this might be, okay, you really know how to pitch this as a problem and you find some engineers that you hire and you know, your, your job is, you know, you raise funding and everything like that. You know, I'm not necessarily saying that you need to be the technical person working on it, but, um, I mean, yeah, like I'm looking at a billion objects around me and I don't think any of anything of this is, is not inherently technical to have built in the first place.

AI assessment note: “no matter what you're working on, even if it's like a shovel, somebody is going to need to engineer it”

Q It gets me thinking that, you know, if you want to build a startup, maybe one, and you're looking for startup ideas that are going to work, maybe a good way is to just ask a particular type of founder, i.e. AI hardware founders or e-commerce founders and be like, what are the five biggest problems that you would pay money for to solve? What do you think about that?

A Yeah. I mean, honestly, this is the problem I would pay the most money to solve. It is my real problem. Like, you know, I've got a team and we are working on it and I've been thinking about this for a while. I think the reason why I'm bringing it up as maybe a very strong priority is I have a lot more context and memories to deal with than, you know, just a web-based chatbot given that I have an always on microphone that is listening to everything you say. And that's a lot of, that's just a lot of data, um, to parse through, especially because think of how often you change your Mind. Right. In real life. And if you're listening to those and trying to form memories off of that, well, man, I mean, you, you need a really robust memory system. Um, I think, you know, it's great that all these great ideas are hampered by, um, you know, these are kind of just like simple technical problems that I think will be solved. But, uh, yeah, and I guess it is a technical problem, but I think it's more, I mean, I, I don't know what to tell you. I mean, skill issue. Like, every, every real idea is gonna be technical.

AI assessment note: “honestly, this is the problem I would pay the most money to solve.”

Q And let's say the consumer social category. What, is TikTok A new, in a new category, or is it, you know, like how, how would you see TikTok versus Instagram?

A Um, you know, that's a good point, right? Like there's definitely situations where you can dethrone a king of an existing category. I think TikTok is the only consumer social product that came out after, you know, the OG ones in the, in the early 2010 that, um, actually succeeded in, I think truly be kind of becoming king in a way that I got a TikTok is great. Um, But I think that's very hard. I guess like, yeah, I mean, like you can go for it. You could build a new car, like, let's say Tesla, right? Like they entered, they, they are in some ways slightly different category, but overall it is still the same category of like cars. Um, You know, they, they dethroned, uh, Ford and a lot of these other existing automobiles. But again, I feel like they still did something slightly different, right? Like they still are entering a category of let's say automobiles, but they still are doing it in a large enough of a different way. And I think there is a, not a large enough of a difference between like, like ice cars and, you know, electric vehicles. And there is, um, you know, a note taking app, then like a note taking app powered by AI or something like that's not really enough of, uh, A change, a categorical change, right?

AI assessment note: “there's definitely situations where you can dethrone a king of an existing category”

Q How, how does someone gain confidence? You know, is that, Is that something that, you know, you can learn or?

A Um, I think your VC funding should be spent on trips to Ibiza or something. No, not, not, not seriously, you know, but I think a lot of people should be focusing a lot more on their personal life outside of their work because it ultimately actually ends up, um, improving their, their work life actually quite significantly. I feel like this is also very, a much more strong point I'm trying to hit home for. I think probably more so younger founders. Again, I'm, I'm, I'm You know, when I started working on this project, I think I'd only recently turned 21. Um, this is the first time I've even, you know, lived in my own real place outside of home, and like, you know, I'm basically still a, you know, and you're also weird if you're in tech, like I'm, You know, I, I think you just, I've, I've, I've grown so much from my own personal confidence and my own, you know, sense of self. And I think that's because I've spent so much time, uh, not necessarily working, although you are kind of working maybe if you view it that way, um, to just. Like travel a little bit, like go do things outside of your comfort zone a little bit. I mean, I think that, that, that phrasing is cringe. I don't, I don't really know what to tell people like earlier this year, I. For example, I was in, I was in Berlin at one point, um, and I went to, like, Berikheim, actually, with one of my prototypes. Crazy, you kn…

AI assessment note: “focusing a lot more on their personal life outside of their work”