The Exchanges

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Dani Grant no published score: only 4 usable exchanges on raw tape, and a fair score needs 8+ · coarse estimate ≈4.5/5 from 4 raw tape exchanges record → ← everyone

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Answered raw tape D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 5 5.00

Q I don't want to waste a second. What, what's, what's your first idea for us?

A Okay. Idea one. K-pop style factories for Particular talent. When you're building a startup, there are certain unicorn hires you just have to make, but every single startup has to make the same unicorn hires. Like here's an example. When a startup hires their first growth marketer, that's a specialized hire. It is a hard hire to find. Like our first marketer, we spent eight months searching, like really searching, but that's a set of skills and you can teach it. And so you could imagine a world in which there's a K-pop style factory where they are churning out the first growth marketer for startups. And people will pay a lot, and they'll, they'll, they'll pay to not have to spend too much searching and to have the person start the next day when, honestly, they needed someone yesterday and didn't start hiring soon enough.

AI assessment note: “Idea one. K-pop style factories for Particular talent.”

Answered raw tape D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85

Q Yeah. They break down different UX flows and they basically, uh, kind of commentate it with, uh, they commentate it with, um, user psychology and stuff like that. And it just, it's, it's, it's absolutely brilliant. But I think that's another thing is it's animated. So you don't really like feel connected to anyone. Um, so yeah, I agree with you there. Um, makes sense. Alright, what else you got?

A Okay, here's another one. Before a startup is ready, actually, let me start with the title, which is like, Bounty Program for Dev Evangelism. Before a startup is ready for the first dev evangelist hire, they need to write docs. They need to write starters to like tutorials. They need to create like starter GitHub repos, uh, videos. There's a ton of dev evangelism that needs to happen even before you have the capacity for a full-time hire. And it usually falls on the founder who has a lot of other stuff they are doing. And at that moment would be very happy to pay someone to do like a 95% good job On the, like, basic stuff that they need to get started. You could imagine a bounty program where junior developers all over the world are like, oh great, this startup needs a getting started tutorial. This startup needs how to use their tool with Zapier. And, and just one by one, uh, is able to contribute.

AI assessment note: “Okay, here's another one. Before a startup is ready, actually, let me start with the title”

Answered raw tape D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60

Q of programs for technical talent that exists training for technical talent, but there doesn't feel like there's that much in like the growth marketer content marketer space. Um, so are you saying like develop, like, you know, the programs around taking someone who's not a growth marketer To become a growth marketer and then connecting those growth marketers with, uh, people who want to hire them. Is that the idea?

A I am here to tell you that I love bootcamps. Like I think coding bootcamps have changed so many people's lives. Like I just, I think they are one of the best things that's happened in education in the last 10 years, but this flips it on its head. That's the, the code bootcamp route is take people, make them junior developers at a generalized big company. This is the opposite of that. It's take people, make them extremely senior Very fast, extremely specialized for a high paying, like extremely focused type of job. So growth marketer is one. Um, here's another type of job that you could do this sort of like K-pop factory for, which is a dev evangelist. When a startup needs their first dev evangelist, that person is like a superstar hire. I mean, like, like they have, they, they have star power, they're, they're building, they're great at speaking. Like that person is so hard to find. And the only people out there that you can see doing it are the ones who are already doing it. And you don't just need someone who can do it. You need someone who's going to be the first. And so like, instead of me as a founder, any founder out there, like, Hiring a recruiter trolling through LinkedIn and Twitter and trying to interview like hundreds of people for this one super specialized role. Why shouldn't there just be like the factory that turns out the best people at this low acceptance rate,…

AI assessment note: “This is the opposite of that. It's take people, make them extremely senior Very fast”

Partly raw tape D 3 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 3.70

Q And if you were to start this, like how, how would you start this? How much money would it require? What tools would you use?

A Yes. So you've heard like first, well, you, you are the, you are the champion of this. It's like first time founders, like over focus on product and second time founders notice focus on distribution. I think that, that, uh, product here is not the hard part. It's the distribution because you both have to build trust in your quality, but also you need to find people at the right moment to sell this. And so I think the first thing you do is you just start by building your own distribution, your own platform, and you do the things that like you, Greg have been doing, which is like, start the podcast, start the newsletter, tweet every day, and like build trust as the person who gets what this role is.

AI assessment note: “I think the first thing you do is you just start by building your own distribution”

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