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Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q And, and just curious, like, why wouldn't you, why wouldn't you build this?
A Oh man. I, I think that there's one of those things where if, if you're a builder and you go off and you spread yourself too thin and, and you're trying to do too many things, you just, you go an inch deep on everything and you just really don't do it. The product justice, right? Like you don't, you don't spend the time and I I'd have to really, Put together a team to go build this and, and, and be heavily involved in the early days. And, you know, I just recently sold my last startup and, and kind of exited out of web three, which was, which is its own madness. And honestly, I really enjoy, um, just Talking through and working with some of like, you know, leading experts in different fields and, and, and doing that on a podcast format. It's like, it's really a lot of fun for me to have these great guests on my show. So I think podcasting is kind of my, my next chapter for, for at least for a while. I need to take a break from startup world.
AI assessment note: “I think podcasting is kind of my, my next chapter for, for at least”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30
Q So, uh, before we wrap up, You're, you're working on Digg, and you're kind of incubating projects, like, I'm listening to you, and I'm like, how can I work with Kevin? I'm sure people are listening to this, being like, this, this sounds cool. Like, how could people support, Get to work with you.
A Yeah, I think there's a couple different ways. I appreciate you saying that. There's, I have a, um, I'm sitting in an office right now that's completely empty, and so I have an incubator here in LA, a studio that I'm going to kind of open up, and there's just going to be free desks for people to come in that are jamming on really cool stuff. So if, you know, at reply me or DM me on X, if you're building really cool AI stuff, and even if you're just coming through, LA and just want to come in and jam. And it, and the point is like, let's just compare notes and talk about what's cool over lunch. And like, you know, if you need an office or you need a room to take a call, you got it for an hour, like no big deal, right? No fees or any type of like, I don't want to charge for desks or anything like that. So I'm going to surround myself with those types of people here in, in Venice, uh, out in LA and want to do that. Um, so please like Hit me up and let's, let's figure out a way to connect if you're building really cool stuff. Um, and then, you know, I'm a venture capitalist still over at true ventures. And part of what I think, I think VC is going to evolve dramatically over the next couple of years. Cause I believe that people don't need to raise capital and oftentimes most ideas, especially like just great lifestyle businesses that get to, you know, two, four or five, ten million…
AI assessment note: “at reply me or DM me on X, if you're building really cool AI stuff”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 4.15
Q So for this particular project, you're going to put it out like success. I'm just trying to think like success. Success looks like what?
A Well, it doesn't look like anything. I might never launch this. Like, I, I might put together a little one pager that's just like the best AI stories and shown by the things that I care about, like novelty and impact or whatever it may be, or, you know, there's just, I, I realized that You've got product hunt, which is kind of people that have already launched things. You've got, um, you know, tech meme, which is fantastic at overarching big news, you know, core weave, two billion dollars. Like that's a tech meme story all day long. Right. And then you've got X, which is just a lot of stuff that's coming at us so hot and heavy. And it's just like, okay, well, where do I decide to spend my time? Like we were just talking about this before the The podcast, uh, started. You're like, oh, if you play with this, you play that. And I'm like, ah, you know, cause it's like, you get so, there's so much coming at you. I want this thing to eventually, if it ever sees the light of day, what I wanted to do is to say, Kevin, this is important to you because it maps to you. These very important people have touched it and said it's worth your time. And it's past that threshold. To where now you should go, install it, play, have fun, and learn about it, because otherwise I'm just going to be, and sadly because of my ADHD, I'm going to be bouncing around too much to even get anything done. So tha…
AI assessment note: “Well, it doesn't look like anything. I might never launch this.”
Partly raw tape
D 3 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 3.55
Q That does make sense. I just have one question around, like, why did you choose Firecrawl and iframely, especially for, and can you just explain what the, what they do for people who aren't familiar with those services?
A Yeah, for sure. So, um, let's go ahead and, um, take the actual article here. And so, uh, I'll share this tab instead. And so you can see this is the Mac rumors, um, article, right? Now, if I take this MacRumors article and I copy and paste it, and then I go into iframely here, I can paste in a URL, any URL, and obviously I'm doing this via API, but I just want to show you how it works. And I hit check URL. And what it's going to do is going to give me this, this card back. So it's almost like those cards that you see on, on X, you know, where you get a piece of rich media, you get the best possible image, get a beautiful title, nice little description here. Sometimes it's a little bit longer. And then I can just jump in here and look at the JSON and say like, okay, what did we get here and kind of expand out and say, did we get a high quality logo? Like, you know, like I can look for and parse through all of this and try and find high quality data. And then also, I mean, it's called iFrame.ly largely because if there is an embedded piece of media, you also get all of those embed codes as well. So you get all of it. So I can actually take, and the reason I like Gemini is because they're tied in with, uh, YouTube obviously, and I can get transcripts back from full YouTube, um, uh, videos, which is great for vector embeddings when I want to figure out what it's actually about. Ok…
AI assessment note: “I go into iframely here, I can paste in a URL”
Partly raw tape
D 3 · C 4 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.30
Q So what is on your mind these days? I mean, let's, let's walk through some of your, some of your startup ideas.
A Yeah, for sure. I mean, I, I spend, it's, it's interesting. My, my time these days is split between doing some investing at True Ventures. So I've, I've been there for around seven years or so. Um, you know, so I'm always looking at kind of the latest early stage startups. So back a napkin ideas. Uh, I love that. I love the very early stage. It's, it's a ton of fun. And then, you know, I also spend a lot of my time interviewing experts on my podcast. And so that can be, You know, AI, health and wellness, technology. Um, it just, all these types of conversations that I'm having anyway, um, that I just want to record and put online. So it gets me in front of a lot of thinkers and that gets my own brain going around ideas. So there's a lot of stuff that I wish existed, but I've just never, uh, built and I don't ever plan on building. So
AI assessment note: “there's a lot of stuff that I wish existed, but I've just never, uh, built”
