Sean Weisbrot
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Oct 9, 2020
Weisbrot: Cut salaries and granted equity compensation during April 2020 downturn
“We broke out the ledger and we told them this is how much we have. This is how much we're spending. This is how much runway we have. We had to fire a few people and we had to cut everyone's salaries. We made promises to them. Of at what point we raise funds, w…”
Oct 14, 2020
Founders Must Learn Domain Basics Before Hiring to Prevent Deception
“If you're not good at something, you either need to find someone who knows what they're talking about, and they can guide you, or you need to learn at least the basic level of that thing, And then hire someone who you know can do it because you have at least a…”
Oct 14, 2020 positive
Oct 14, 2020 neutral
Oct 14, 2020
Leading Users During Product Interviews Introduces Harmful Researcher Bias
“And it's unfortunate because you're kind of leading them and in a way they want to be led. But you don't want to lead them because then you're introducing your own bias. Which is a huge problem in psychology, you know, inserting your own bias.”
Oct 22, 2020
Weisbrot scrapped two years of Android UI design for a desktop pivot
“So I spent two years doing all of this UI, UX and the documentation for Android. And then when we decided to pivot to desktop because of the virus, I was like, I have to start over again because you can't just say, all right, I'm going to take this screen and …”
Nov 4, 2020 negative
Weisbrot: Homogenous Asian cultures make foreigner integration and citizenship nearly impossible
“Because they're a very homogenous society like Korea and Japan and a lot of Asian countries are very homogenous, and I think that's why it's so hard for someone to break into the culture. But it's easy for them to leave and go to America and assimilate into Am…”
Dec 2, 2020 positive
Weisbrot uses podcast guest invitations as a startup lead generation funnel.
“Part of the podcast is meant to drive traffic back to this whole thing. So when I go to people and I say, Hey, I'm doing a podcast. I'm interested in talking to you about, you know, you being a guest. Oh, and you know, tell me about your company. And then when…”
Dec 2, 2020
Dec 2, 2020 negative
Weisbrot: Founder Loneliness Stems From Busy Peers and Unique Pressures
“Because entrepreneurs are so busy, it's hard to find entrepreneurs that have the time to be your support network, which makes it even worse because the only people you find yourself wanting to know are other entrepreneurs. Because they're the only people who u…”
Dec 3, 2020 positive
Dec 3, 2020
Dec 15, 2020 positive
Weisbrot: Long-Term Release Context Makes Engineering Teams Emotionally Invested
“And so once we did that, it became much easier for them to become emotionally invested in what we were doing, even though before that, you know, they were enjoying the development and they liked the company culture and all that.”
Dec 15, 2020 neutral
Weisbrot: Business Minimalism Is Hard Because Founders Try to Please Everyone
“Professionally, minimalism is a little bit harder to do, I think, because it's so common for people to want to do as many different things as they possibly can in order to provide as much value for as many potential customers.”
Dec 15, 2020 negative
Weisbrot: COO Found No Sidekick Employees Knew What They Were Building
“After I hired my COO, he came in and he did a very deep review of the company from many different angles. Interviewing every single one of the employees, you know, to see what their experience has been thus far. And one of the questions he asked them was, do y…”
Jan 6, 2021
Weisbrot: Development team has total schedule autonomy without time tracking
“Something that we do with our team is we allow them to set their own schedule, especially because they're developers. A lot of people will track the work that developers do. They'll do time tracking. Some people I've one of the people we just hired said that t…”
Jan 15, 2021 bearish
Weisbrot: Overreliance on venture capital harms sustainable business development
“I think there's a huge reliance on outside funding now that's detrimental for the development of businesses in a sustainable way, because VCs, if they haven't been entrepreneurs themselves, may not understand how stressful it can be to grow that fast for long …”
Jan 15, 2021 positive
Weisbrot: Clients accept high fees for value, not itemized commissions
“When I stopped being transparent with them, they were okay with that number. And they didn't know how much commission I was taking because they were paying for the value I was bringing and therefore whatever the commission I wanted it to be was what it was.”
Jan 18, 2021
Jan 26, 2021 bullish
Feb 2, 2021
Weisbrot: Discussing Past Marijuana Use Creates Stigma and Fear for Founders
“Part of the shame I feel in talking about my own thing with marijuana is that I'm building a company and I want it to be successful. I don't want to be judged by my past behavior, but I think it's important that people understand that it's a part of who I am.”
Feb 2, 2021
Weisbrot: Daily Cannabis Use for a Decade Was a Habit, Not Addiction
“I smoked, I would say almost daily for 10 or 11 years. I wasn't one of those people that would roll a joint and smoke a gram or two a day. I met people like that. I would make a gram last a month. Like, I was very economical with how I smoked, but I would be h…”
Feb 10, 2021 negative
Feb 18, 2021 neutral
Mar 3, 2021 negative
Mar 12, 2021
Weisbrot: Evaluates Developer Performance by Code Commits, Not Clocked Hours
“With my team, I don't know when they clock in and when they clock out. I don't ask. All I know is I can see that they're doing something, right? I can see that they're pushing code. As long as I see people getting things done, I don't care what hour of the day…”
Mar 12, 2021 negative
Weisbrot: Candidates Who Think Humans Are Earth's Best Species Lack Self-Awareness
“If a person believes that humans are the best species in the planet, or the best thing that happened to Earth, then I would question their sense of general self-awareness and global awareness. Because the reality is, humans are destroying the planet.”
Mar 12, 2021
Mar 12, 2021 positive
Weisbrot: Provide Interviewees Critical Feedback to Test Their Coachability
“Oftentimes. They will not be perfect. So we'll say, all right, this is the pros. This is the cons of your submission. Go and fix those things and show us that you can improve. And so that gives us the chance to see like, oh, well, are they angry that we've tol…”
Mar 12, 2021
Weisbrot: Replaces Local Holidays With Scientists' Birthdays for Remote Teams
“I've offered everybody 10 holidays, including one of them being their birthday, because everybody's in different countries and different religions and different cultures, so I can't say You're allowed to have the fourth of July, but you're not allowed to have …”
Mar 20, 2021
Mar 30, 2021 negative
Weisbrot: Outsourcing core technology makes startups look horrible to investors
“Why would I outsource tech when I'm a tech company? Like that looks horrible. I think to an, any investor be like, wait a minute, you want me to invest in something you have no control over. No, that doesn't sound good at all.”
Apr 6, 2021 negative
Apr 6, 2021 positive
Weisbrot: Two-week documentation sprints maintain focus better than three-month plans
“Where I used to prepare Three months worth of documentation and issues and all that. Now I'm trying to do it like two weeks at a time. So, okay, I know the team's going to be working on this in the next two weeks. Let me create all of it at once, disseminate i…”
Apr 6, 2021 positive
Weisbrot: Weekly check-in engagement reveals which employees think like managers
“Some of the people will write, like they'll give me real information. Some people won't give me anything. And that also tells me long-term who's thinking like a manager and who's thinking like an employee. Who am I going to be more likely to give opportunities…”
Apr 6, 2021 positive
Apr 13, 2021
Weisbrot created a sunsetting founder share structure for his Singapore startup
“So what I did was I got my lawyer to research it cause it's not common in Singapore. So I got him to research it and we built a founders fund share system for me, but with the goal that if we go public, Upon going public, I instantly lose half the voting power…”
Jun 8, 2021 negative
Jun 8, 2021 negative
Jun 8, 2021
Jun 8, 2021 positive
Jun 8, 2021
Jun 8, 2021 negative
Jun 8, 2021 negative
Weisbrot: Google Suite permissions failed to hide company financials from staff
“We're using Google Drive. We're paying for Google Suite. What we realized was even though they have differing permission levels, they were still able to see our financials. They were able to see all of the data from all of the folders. Even though some of the …”
Jul 13, 2021 neutral
Weisbrot: Millennial women prioritize career independence over starting a family
“I've found in the last few years that women in their Like early to late twenties and even some in their early thirties have this opinion now that they can't rely on a man. They have to be independent in every way. And they would even sacrifice having a family …”
Jul 13, 2021 negative
Jul 20, 2021
Sean Weisbrot will use Series A funds for four years back pay.
“I haven't taken a salary yet, although I'm planning on taking some of the money from the A round to cover my back pay. It's been three years. By the time we get to the A round, it'll be four years where I've had no income, which I would like to get paid back f…”
Sep 16, 2021 negative
Sep 16, 2021 positive
Weisbrot Uses Podcasting to Build Company Trust Without Social Media
“I despise social media. That's why I decided to do the podcast because for me, this is something where if someone wants to know about my company and through that decide they want to know who I am to know if they can trust my company, they've got Hours upon hou…”
Sep 16, 2021 negative
Oct 12, 2021 neutral
Nov 11, 2021 positive
Dec 14, 2021
Stepanov: Set payroll frequency to match business systems, not worker preference
“Again, keep in mind, Sean, you need to pay how your business works, not how it's convenient for them. They would love to get paid every day. You actually set up the rules. You're the employer and you set up how your company is running, not how they want to get…”
Feb 2, 2022
Weisbrot: People often find comfort in depression over trying to be happy
“I've discovered as well that the people who I believe are depressed, even if they refuse to admit it to themselves, find that it's easier to live in the comfort of depression than to strive to do something that would make them happy, which would then bring the…”
Feb 2, 2022 neutral
Feb 2, 2022 positive
Mar 1, 2022 negative
Mar 1, 2022 positive
Blakney: International travel creates business opportunities via geographic arbitrage
“So if you're that kind of person, then traveling is amazing, right? Because if you're stuck, so I lived in Ohio for a while, so if you're stuck in Cleveland, Ohio, and you never leave, you might never get exposed to some of these problems, like what you're hav…”
Mar 1, 2022 positive
Mar 8, 2022 neutral
Apr 20, 2022 neutral
Apr 20, 2022
Weisbrot: US expats can legally pay zero tax on first $110K
“As an American citizen, I'm screwed no matter where I choose to live, but by living outside of the U.S. More than six months a year, and being an employee of a foreign entity, I have what's called foreign income exclusion. So the first 110,000 dollars that I e…”
Apr 20, 2022
Apr 20, 2022 negative
May 10, 2022 neutral
Weisbrot predicts AI adopters will replace non-adopters in the workplace.
“Now in the 20 twenties, but I think even more importantly towards the end of this decade, possibly more important in 20 thirties, if you don't know how to work with an AI to complete your job, you will lose your job to someone who will.”
May 18, 2022 negative
Weisbrot: Victims who stay silent enable abusers to continue patterns
“When you allow those things to happen to you without feeling it necessary to tell someone, maybe you're embarrassed that it happened, that you allowed it to happen or whatever. You're enabling that person to continue their pattern and you're enabling the cultu…”
Jul 6, 2022
Weisbrot: Idea Exchange partnered directly with the Chinese government for operational support
“I only accepted one opportunity and that was working with the Chinese government. And I felt like I didn't have a choice. Because it's the freaking government, you know. But, ah, they were very supportive, so I couldn't say no to the offer. It was too good to …”
Jul 6, 2022 positive
Jul 6, 2022 positive
Weisbrot: Network upward by exchanging asymmetric, high-value skills instead of money
“You maybe don't have to be at the same level as someone to be able to do that, but like you have to have a skill set that they don't have that normally, like they would pay tens of thousands of dollars to learn that from somebody. They get to learn it for you …”
Jul 12, 2022 bearish
Jul 12, 2022
Jul 26, 2022 bearish
Weisbrot: Raising venture capital is often worse for startups than bootstrapping
“The more I've gotten into the interviews, the more I've been like, damn, you know, raising money from VCs is just like, people think it's a good thing, but I I'm starting to disagree. I think it's not beneficial to have all that money thrown at you.”
Sep 6, 2022 negative
Sep 27, 2022 negative
Weisbrot: Social media worsened loneliness and Asian professionals fear vulnerability
“I think social media made it worse. I think COVID made it obvious. And now it's time we figure out how to actually deal with it instead of sweeping it under the rug, especially in Asia, I discovered people are really, really afraid to be vulnerable. And talk a…”
Oct 18, 2022
Weisbrot: Companies should operate as career factories assuming employees will leave
“I see companies as like career factories. You're there to like give people opportunities and assume that they're never gonna stay, but that's okay because you're doing something good for them and they did something good for you in the process.”
Oct 26, 2022 negative
Oct 26, 2022 positive
Sean Weisbrot intentionally skips remote social events so employees socialize freely
“So one of the things I tried to do is like, I'll set up something like that, and then I won't show up. I'll speak. Oh guys, I'm so sorry. I've got something else to do. And that way, like it's the team and not me. And that way they can just like, cause like, i…”
Nov 16, 2022 positive
Dec 7, 2022 neutral
Dec 13, 2022 neutral
Dec 13, 2022
Dec 13, 2022 negative
Weisbrot: Work-life balance is a myth because you cannot do both
“People say work life balance is a thing, but it's not because you're either working or you're living. You can't do both. You can't really balance them unless you say I've got eight hours in the day that I'm committing to one thing and four hours goes into one …”
Dec 17, 2022
Weisbrot: A business cannot succeed unless founders resolve personal psychological issues
“If you want to learn about yourself, start a business. And if you want to really break through all of the bullshit in your life, Start a business because if you refuse to deal with those things, your business won't succeed. And so you have no choice but to dea…”
Jan 18, 2023
Weisbrot: Founders should screen for culture first to save team time
“I wanted to make sure that they passed me before they could pass everybody else, because if they pass everybody else and then they fail me, I've wasted the team's time. I would rather waste a little bit of my time first and not the team's time. Cause I think t…”
Jan 18, 2023
Weisbrot: Early hiring prioritized immediate execution over diversity or team harmony
“Was going for wasn't diversity or harmony. It was who are the best people to get the job done right now. And if those are not the right people to get the job done in the future, I'll deal with that in the future.”
Jan 29, 2023
Weisbrot: Hourly pay encourages slow work while monthly salaries incentivize performance
“So if people are working hourly, they're incentivized to work as slowly as possible. But if they're on a salary, they're incentivized to get the job done well, because if they do, they got a job the next month.”
Jan 29, 2023
Weisbrot: Remote work management should focus entirely on outcomes, not hours
“I don't need to see you working. I just need to see that it got done. So if you commit to doing something by a certain time, and you get it done, and the quality is there, I don't care if it took you 10 hours or one, and I don't care if you did it at two a.m. …”
Feb 8, 2023 negative
Weisbrot: Taking childhood Ritalin stunted physical growth
“It made me feel like a zombie, it made me not want to eat, and I think that it stunted my growth, for sure, because when I was younger I was supposed, I was told that I would be five nine, which is about, like, one 70 two, one 73 centimeters, maybe one 75. I'm…”
Feb 8, 2023 negative
Feb 14, 2023 negative
Weisbrot: Foreign founders targeting local emerging markets will get destroyed by locals
“From my experience in a lot of countries that I've been to, being a foreigner and opening a business in that country, focusing on that economy is a really bad idea because you're just going to get destroyed by other companies that know the language and have re…”
Apr 23, 2023
Apr 23, 2023 negative
Weisbrot: Legacy Corporate Employees Discourage Ambitious Juniors Out of Laziness
“What I hear from that story is that those people were lazy and didn't want you showing them up. They don't want you to make their job harder by setting an example to other people that this is what you should expect from your employees.”
Apr 23, 2023
May 2, 2023 negative
Weisbrot prefers pure capital over value-add investors lacking technical curiosity
“I've encountered investors that are just money and investors that want to add value. And I prefer the investors that just have money because I can do the rest of myself with a team. But if someone is interested in, in nerding out and being on the board and try…”
May 25, 2023 neutral
May 27, 2023
May 27, 2023 positive
May 27, 2023
May 27, 2023
May 28, 2023 positive
Weisbrot: Idea Exchange Scaled to 600 Attendees With Zero Marketing Spend
“You know, the first time we had a hundred people at our event, we did no marketing, and we thought we were only going to have about 30 or 40, maybe. And so the second time we got a venue that held two 50 and we put 300 people in that room. Again, we didn't spe…”
May 28, 2023 negative
Weisbrot: TED Has Become an Elitist Event Only the Wealthy Can Afford
“Going back to the question about TED, I think a lot of people feel like after 30 years, TED's become this very elitist kind of event where
You know, only the rich can afford to watch, and the people that are poor are stuck watching it online.”
May 28, 2023
May 30, 2023 positive
Jun 6, 2023 positive
Weisbrot: A referral network raised his close rate from 10% to 90%
“My close rate was 10% and with those, and it would, it was very difficult. It took a long time and the close rate was very low and they wanted contracts and it was all sorts of stuff. After I built the referral network, I had a 90 plus percent close rate. I ha…”
Jun 6, 2023 positive
Weisbrot: Transferred trust through referral intermediaries eliminates the sales process
“If you know someone that knows people that are your potential clients and those clients trust that person that's your refer, when they refer that client to you, what's happening is psychology of trust, right? The trust is being transferred from the middleman o…”
Jun 6, 2023 neutral
Jun 14, 2023 negative
Weisbrot: Candidate creativity is useless without the ability to follow instructions
“We want them to follow instructions first, because if you can't follow instructions, then your creativity doesn't matter. Right? Because there's a hierarchy. At some point, you're going to have to listen to what someone else says.”
Jul 5, 2023 negative
Weisbrot: Corporate In-House Experience Beats Fiverr Freelancers For Content Production Roles
“No, I don't want someone on Fiverr. I want someone that's worked for a company. Producing their content because I know that they know how to work with other people. They know how to follow deadlines. They know how to work with people.”
Jul 5, 2023
Weisbrot: Founders Who Cannot Identify A Business Bottleneck Are The Bottleneck
“If you look around the room or you look at your operations and you don't see a bottleneck, you're the bottleneck. If you want to grow to ten million, you got to remove yourself from that conversation of how do we do this project?”
Jul 12, 2023 neutral
Jul 12, 2023
Jul 12, 2023
Sean Weisbrot funds his podcast operations using his primary company salary
“Now, having this first company and having a salary from it, I'm using my salary to pay for the salaries of my second team. So that, I, I've been able to offload some of the things. So I'm actually working on the standard operating procedures for all of the thi…”
Aug 15, 2023 bullish
Sep 18, 2023 negative
Weisbrot: Assuming Others Share Your Morals and Needs Guarantees Failure
“And the crux of my position is that everyone is different from you. Everyone has different morals and standards and ethics than you do, even within your own culture. And so if you make the assumption that your needs, your wants, your desires, your way of doing…”
Sep 18, 2023
Weisbrot uses a stopwatch to practice timed smiling intervals every morning
“I've recently been using a stopwatch to time myself smiling because I feel like I don't smile as much as I could. And I know that I have a really good smile and people have told me that they like my smile. And yet I find myself not really being too great at sh…”
Oct 10, 2023
Oct 10, 2023 negative
Oct 10, 2023
Weisbrot Spent $30,000 Monthly Out of Pocket to Bootstrap SaaS Startup
“At one point I was spending about 30,000 dollars a month of my own money to keep the team going, which when you look at it and you have no end in sight for the cost of development and being able to get people To become customers and pay, like it's, it was real…”
Oct 17, 2023 negative
Oct 17, 2023 negative
Weisbrot: QA Mishire and Fixes Cost Startup $60K to $80K
“So it was months of salary for these two people, and then months of not having a tester or a QA manager, and then hiring a new QA manager, which was more money, for him to then fix her thing, which took six months for him to do, and my time and energy having t…”
Oct 31, 2023 positive
Weisbrot: Mid-sized businesses follow advice because high consulting fees hurt
“Working with six, seven, eight figure businesses. They're easier to work with, easier to form personal relationships with, and easier to get them to listen to your advice and take action. On the strategy because they're paying for it. And when they pay, it's e…”
Nov 21, 2023 positive
Nov 28, 2023
Nov 28, 2023 negative
Weisbrot: VC-backed founders cannot pause to fix problems; they must inflate valuations
“When you've raised money from investors, you don't have time to stop and fix your problems. You have to just keep growing for the purpose of making your valuation look like it's going up so that your investors can get new LPs into their next fund.”
Nov 28, 2023 negative
Dec 12, 2023 neutral
Weisbrot quit daily weed to remain present for his startup team
“When I was early on in my relationship with my now ex-wife, I quit weed, because I was smoking weed daily, and I quit because she was a lot younger. So I quit for several reasons. One, she was a lot younger, and I didn't want to put her in a situation where sh…”
Dec 12, 2023 neutral
Weisbrot: Dating in China rapidly escalates from marriage interest to serious relationship
“In China, if you went on a date, they made the assumption that you were potentially interested in marriage.
If you went on a second date, it meant that you wanted to be in a relationship and you wanted to see what was gonna happen.
If you're on a third date, y…”
Dec 19, 2023
Weisbrot: Consulting Businesses Scale Best Through Partner Referral Trust
“My experience told me that when you're doing a consulting service, that the best kind of way to build your clientele is to convince people that already serve that clientele to refer you to them because they're essentially transferring the trust that the client…”
Dec 19, 2023 positive
Dec 19, 2023 positive
Dec 19, 2023 neutral
Weisbrot: Competing with Slack in B2B SaaS requires $10M before profitability
“When you're doing a B to B SaaS like that, and we're trying to compete with Slack, so it's something that you need millions upon millions upon millions of dollars before you get to profit. You know, probably ten million dollars invested before you get profit o…”
Dec 26, 2023 negative
Assisted living accelerated grandmother's cognitive decline by reducing self-care tasks
“And after she moved in, she stopped doing a lot of the things like she doesn't cook anymore. She doesn't clean anymore. She doesn't do her own laundry. We have someone who's helping her to shower twice a week now. And so we see her cognitive decline coming fas…”
Jan 25, 2024
Sean Weisbrot: Business Owners Cannot Be Both Primary Service Provider and Manager
“What I also learned was that you can't be the provider and the owner, because that was his problem. Because he was trained to be a dentist, not to be a businessman. And he didn't have a partner to help him to grow the business, so he was stuck being a dentist …”
Jan 25, 2024 negative
Weisbrot: Launched a startup to compete with Slack's chat deletion pricing model
“Well, that's one of the reasons why I started the company to compete with Slack because their whole pricing model was, hey, we're going to delete all of your chat history if you don't pay us five dollars per user per month.”
Feb 6, 2024 positive
Weisbrot: Married employees with children are more stable and rarely quit abruptly
“That's why when I was hiring people with my last business, I didn't like make it a requirement that they were married and had kids, but I found that people who are married and had kids would be a lot more stable. They were less likely to disappear or to quit a…”
Feb 13, 2024
Feb 13, 2024
Weisbrot: I invested hundreds of thousands in a failed SaaS startup
“I felt trapped for a long time, for years, because I was like, well, I've invested hundreds of thousands of dollars of my own money into this business. Now I've gotten investor money. I can't afford to let them down. Not only that, but now I've got 15 employee…”
Feb 13, 2024 negative
Feb 21, 2024 negative
Weisbrot: Daily cannabis use prevents founders from successfully scaling and leading teams
“I realized I needed to quit smoking weed if I was going to have any sort of success in a real company, because the success I'd had before was in consulting and other sort of leaner things where you don't really need to worry about teams and building and all of…”
Feb 21, 2024
Weisbrot: Acting as both CEO and hands-on QA tester caused management friction
“I was acting as a quality control, like a software tester, right? Cause it was my product. So I was testing each new feature as it was being developed by the developer to make sure before it went into the production that it worked the way it was intended to. A…”
Feb 27, 2024 negative
Feb 27, 2024 negative
Sean Weisbrot: Selling $4,000 Bitcoin to fund startup cost $15 million
“I had held that money in Bitcoin and I was paying for things for the business at a point when Bitcoin had hit its low of 4000 dollars. So had I not spent, had I not started that company, I'd have an extra 10 or fifteen million dollars in just liquidity.”
Mar 6, 2024 negative
Weisbrot: Reject startup applicants who cannot follow instructions despite out-of-box thinking
“Bottom line is if we're trying to hire a, for a position and there's 500 applicants, the ones that don't know how to follow instructions are not going to be the ones That I'm going to want to work with, even if they have or don't have the ability to think outs…”
Mar 6, 2024 positive
Weisbrot: Practicing unfiltered blunt honesty immediately filters out incompatible people
“I call it blunt honesty and people, when they meet me, like I have no filter in that regard, but maybe that's not a great thing, but I will be bluntly honest with people. I don't know. And some people really like it and some people don't like it. So people kno…”
Mar 12, 2024 positive
Mar 26, 2024 positive
Apr 2, 2024
Weisbrot Restructured E-Commerce Profit Share into Equity to Protect Growth
“I invested in a e-commerce liquidation company in Canada a little bit more than a year ago. And we were, before it was equity, it was meant to just be like profit share, but the actual deal was so good for me that it prevented the business from growing. Like i…”
Apr 16, 2024 negative
Apr 16, 2024 negative
Apr 16, 2024 bearish
Apr 16, 2024 neutral
Weisbrot: Referral partners receive commissions for the lifetime of the client relationship
“The relationships that I've built with people is that if money comes in, I get a commission for the life of the relationship. And if someone refers, then they're going to get a commission for the life of all the relationship when I'm getting a commission.”
Apr 23, 2024 positive
Weisbrot: Downward Social Comparison Paradoxically Helps Relieve Anxiety
“Typically you tell someone don't compare yourself to others, only compare yourself now to who you were before and who you want to be. But for some reason to make yourself feel better, You'd compare yourself to somebody else and go, well, it's not so bad, right…”
Apr 23, 2024 negative
May 7, 2024 positive
Weisbrot: Salaried Team Members Can Moonlight Once Weekly Tasks Are Completed
“Every week you have stuff that you commit to doing, if you commit to doing that stuff and you still have extra time, that's your time, right? I'm not going to tell you what to do at that time. If you work with somebody else, that's your time.”
May 7, 2024
Weisbrot: Transitioned Consulting Business to No Contracts and 100% Upfront Payment
“I used to do consulting and I had something similar at first where like the clients wanted contracts and they wanted to pay 30% upfront and this and that. And then I changed my model where I stopped going to clients and I started having people who trusted me, …”
May 14, 2024 neutral
May 14, 2024 positive
Weisbrot: Effective interviewers ditch prepared question lists to listen actively
“What I learned to do as I did more interviews was stop having things prepared and just listen to what they're saying. So that instead of making sure you check all the questions off the list, ask them questions based on what they've just said.”
May 14, 2024 neutral
Rossi: SOPs reduce review time, but founders never reach zero review
“Once all your SOPs are in and they're like getting your brand totally underwing and they're adopting it as their own and they know what your voice is and you can trust them. I think the review will be less. I don't think we ever have zero review because I thin…”
May 14, 2024
May 21, 2024 neutral
May 28, 2024 positive
Weisbrot plans to monetize his podcast via equity-based consulting
“There's no reason why I can't use the podcast to do something in consulting again, where now I can also try to get equity in, you know, if I go for smaller companies, I can get some equity and that kind of makes up for the retainer.”
May 28, 2024
Jun 4, 2024
Sean Weisbrot: Reaching $10M Revenue Requires Executives to Manage Other Managers
“Once you start to hire the first few people, maybe five, six people, then you can hit above a million a year. Then you get to like the managers, and then maybe you can get to like four or five million a year, but you really can't hit ten million a year until y…”
Jun 4, 2024
Jun 4, 2024
Sean Weisbrot: Shut Down Profitable Business Because the Underlying Market Was Dying
“When I had my last successful business before I started the tech company and coaching. I saw the market winds changing, and I decided to shut down. Because even though it was printing money like crazy, I didn't see a way forward with that business because of t…”
Jun 11, 2024
Jun 11, 2024 positive
Podcasting Serves as an Effective B2B Client Acquisition Funnel
“So if you're running a software based company, or if you're running a service based company, podcasts are a great way for you to be able to learn from your clients who are, you know, guests first, right? You bring them onto the show as a guest. And after you'v…”
Jun 11, 2024 bullish
Jun 11, 2024
Jun 11, 2024
Naming a Podcast Separately From a Startup Preserves Founder Control
“When I started the podcast, instead of calling it the nerve podcast, I called it, we live to build because it was an extension of my personal interest of connecting psychology and entrepreneurship. And I had a feeling that if the company were successful and we…”
Jun 14, 2024 negative
Weisbrot: Slack has an awful business model driven by fear and pain.
“Slack hate them. I hate them so much. I tried to build a competitor. I failed, unfortunately, but I tried to build a competitor because their business model was so bad. That they motivated people by fear and pain avoidance, which I hate.”
Jul 10, 2024 positive
Weisbrot: Double prices for each new client until hitting market resistance
“What I had learned really early on was, you know, if I start and I say a hundred dollars for this thing to you and you say yes, well the next person I'm going to say 200. You say yes, all right. The next person I'm going to say 400. You say yes, fine. The next…”
Jul 10, 2024
Weisbrot: Founder anxiety persists whether generating zero dollars or twenty million
“You're going to have fear and anxiety, no matter if you're making zero dollars or twenty million dollars a day, the fear and anxiety you have just changes. The things you are afraid of change. When you're starting, your fear is I'm not going to be successful. …”
Jul 16, 2024 neutral
Weisbrot: Agency owners burn out at $20K to $25K monthly revenue
“Agency owners start to burn out around 20 to 25 K a month because they haven't really hired anyone yet. They may have like a contractor, but mostly they're still doing everything themselves and the demand is higher than their ability to serve.”
Jul 16, 2024
Jul 16, 2024
Weisbrot: Tech product marketing must begin two to four months pre-release
“You can't publish code today and start promoting it today. You have to like prepare what you're going to develop for the next like six months or a year, and then start creating the messaging for it two, three, four months before it comes out so that people can…”
Jul 23, 2024
Weisbrot: Individuals must pay off personal debt before financially supporting parents
“If your parents are demanding you give them a thousand dollars a month, but you can't pay your debt off, You have to tell your parents, I'm sorry, I would love to give you money, but I need to be able to do this, and this first.”
Jul 30, 2024
Jul 30, 2024 negative
Aug 6, 2024 positive
Aug 8, 2024
Weisbrot: Leaders Cannot Accurately Assess Transparency Without Team Feedback
“If you think you're doing a good job with being transparent and honest, ask your team because sometimes you may have a blind spot and that blind spot may give you a positive
understanding of yourself and you may be completely wrong. And the only way you can …”
Aug 9, 2024 neutral
Weisbrot: $650K invested in Nerve cost $20M in opportunity
“To invest in my company nerve. I invested 650,000. I've said that before publicly. If I hadn't invested in nerve that's 650,000 would today be worth about twenty million with another decision I could have made instead. And that's in a five year period.”
Aug 9, 2024 neutral
Aug 10, 2024 positive
Aug 10, 2024
Weisbrot: Startup paid salaries in Bitcoin and Ethereum before securing funding
“In the first half of last year, before we got funding we were using like Bitcoin and Ethereum to pay for things with salaries and software and things like that. And then once we got investment from people we started using, you know transfer wise, we're using S…”
Aug 10, 2024 positive
Aug 10, 2024 positive
Weisbrot: Scaling past millions requires founders to exit daily operations
“From the people that I've talked to who are doing multiple millions a year, they seem to be mostly out of the actual operations and the actual execution of the work being done. And that seems to be the only way that they were able to get there.”
Aug 10, 2024 positive
Aug 10, 2024
Aug 13, 2024
Weisbrot: American parents sacrifice retirement for kids, while Asian children repay parents
“And I think, especially in America, they sacrifice their own future in their retirement. In order to make sure that their kids have, you know, college and all of that. And in Asia, as soon as they finish their school and they get a job, they start to pay back.”
Aug 13, 2024
Aug 13, 2024 neutral
Aug 13, 2024
Mar 11, 2025 neutral
Mar 19, 2025
Weisbrot: Enforcing personal guarantee against founder who lost invested capital
“Another one failed immediately out of the gate because they got scammed by a service partner and lost all of the capital, so there's a personal guarantee on the CEO I'm trying to get back now that I made him sign because it was, there was a little bit of risk …”
Mar 25, 2025 negative
Weisbrot: Pitching social causes is an emotionally manipulative way to fundraise
“I get scared when someone tells me that they're going to do something like that, because my, the first thing that comes to my mind is you're just trying to get to like some mushy side of me that just wants to like give you money because I believe in this and I…”
Mar 25, 2025 negative
Weisbrot: East Asian face-saving culture causes founders to make unkept commitments
“If they're Chinese in particular, Chinese, Hong Kong, Taiwanese, Singaporean. There's this need to preserve face, and that may require you to say something or do something That makes you look good, even if it's not reality.”
Apr 1, 2025 negative
Apr 1, 2025 negative
Weisbrot: I lost $5,000 selling 2016 election bumper stickers via Amazon FBA
“Lost 5000 dollars doing it. This was 2016, the summer of 20 16. For the election. I saw people selling bumper stickers related to the election and they were killing it on Amazon. I mean, thousands a day, two dollars, three dollars for fucking bumper sticker. S…”
Apr 22, 2025 bullish
Weisbrot: Non-Technical Founders Can Build Full Front/Back Ends Using Lovable
“Now I'm able to code entire front ends and back ends with natural language prompts using a tool called lovable, which I mentioned to you previously. And as a non-technical person who's not a designer, not a coder, but has visions can, I can imagine businesses,…”
May 9, 2025 negative
May 9, 2025
May 20, 2025 positive
May 20, 2025 negative
Weisbrot: Doing business with Europeans is highly frustrating compared to American clients
“So I find it honestly doing business with Europeans very frustrating. So even though I love living in Europe, I typically just serve Americans because I understand them in a way that they they're also not frustrating for me.”
May 20, 2025
May 20, 2025 neutral
May 23, 2025 positive
Yahes: Many people pursue entrepreneurship because it is thrust upon them
“And I bet you, there are a lot of people who are. Just like us who maybe wanted to be an entrepreneur, but it was kind of thrust upon them, right? Where you said sink or swim, buddy, what are you going to do? Sit there and cry. Get after it.”
May 23, 2025 positive
May 23, 2025 negative
May 23, 2025 negative
May 27, 2025
Weisbrot: Funding a tech startup through consulting cash flow is smarter
“Looking back, I felt the smarter thing to do was to try to figure out how to keep the consulting business going. So that revenue could have fueled or profit from that could have fueled the tech company and paid myself money to live on so that I wouldn't have h…”
Jun 6, 2025 negative
Jun 10, 2025 positive
Jun 13, 2025 negative
Weisbrot: AI coding tools like Lovable fake completion using unconnected placeholder UI.
“The AI will create a plan for me, and the plan looks great, and it'll say, hey, do you want me to implement this? And I'll go, sure, go for it. And it'll say, all right, the plan is done. But then when I go to test the functionality, it hasn't been done. It to…”
Jun 13, 2025 bearish
Jun 20, 2025 negative
Sean Weisbrot Rejected a $30,000 Offer to License Podcast for AI Training
“So I had someone come to me wanting to license my content for the purpose of tossing it into an AI and training it. And what I didn't know at the time, I told them, no, I said, I looked at the contract. I said, this doesn't look right for me. You're telling me…”
Jun 24, 2025 positive
Jun 24, 2025 negative
Jun 26, 2025 positive
Jun 26, 2025 bullish
Weisbrot: Voice and camera access are the future of AI communication
“The reason why I'm focused on interviewing in voice mode for all of these different AIs is because I believe the future of AI communication will be based on voice and possibly even with the AI having access to our camera to be able to see our faces and our exp…”
Jun 26, 2025 bearish
Weisbrot: AI acting as CEO could eventually tank entire companies
“Honestly, I haven't really seen AI be implemented in any one business to a large enough extent that it actually had the ability to tank a company, but I think it's something that we will be able to see coming in the future. I think possibly it will come with p…”
Jul 4, 2025 negative
Weisbrot avoids investors after past backers breached contracts and killed his business
“But I'm not looking to get investors because I've done that before, and that, I think, was a huge reason why my business failed. I give it fifty-fifty. 50% was my fault. 50% was the investors because they just didn't give me the money that they signed the cont…”
Jul 4, 2025
Jul 11, 2025 negative
Weisbrot: Many Americans use antidepressants to numb reality rather than face hardship
“And I think a lot of them are on antidepressants because it's easier than not being on antidepressants. It's easier to numb yourself than to be part of reality. And to accept that things are not always as easy as you want them to be.”
Jul 18, 2025
Weisbrot: Building our 2020 AI product today would cost thousands, not millions
“If I were to have started that business today, I could have had the entire thing working with the AI cost maybe a few thousand dollars and take like two or three months. But it's a, it took two and a half years and cost over a million dollars and we still didn…”
Jul 21, 2025 neutral
Founders heed operational advice from peer business owners over employees
“Hearing the message from someone that was doing a seven, eight, nine figure business annually, it meant more because they had experienced it. And so it was one business owner to another saying, Hey, I've been there. I've done this. This is what happens if you …”
Jul 29, 2025 positive
Jul 29, 2025 positive
Weisbrot Uses Gemini to Replace a 5-to-10 Person Advisory Team
“A point for me to start from is that I currently use Gemini for a lot of things. Like it's my chief marketing officer, my chief product officer, my chief revenue officer, my chief customer success officer. It, it's constantly giving me advice on different situ…”
Aug 15, 2025 bearish
Aug 15, 2025 negative
Weisbrot: Pitching investors distracts founders from core operations and growth
“As you put the energy into talking to investors, you're not thinking about growing your business. You're not thinking about how you can make better pictures, how you can have better posts, how you can get a higher percentage of people that, that that stay with…”
Aug 15, 2025
Aug 15, 2025 negative
Aug 15, 2025
Aug 19, 2025 neutral
Weisbrot: Most People Are Easily Manipulated Due to Low Self-Awareness
“Most people are controllable. They're manipulative, manipulatable. I hate to say it, but it's the truth. You know, you can like, I could say something that'll probably make you angry. Or I could say something to someone else that might make them happy. I can k…”
Aug 19, 2025 neutral
Aug 19, 2025 negative
Weisbrot: Leaders in China, Vietnam, and Portugal Resist Upward Accountability
“One thing I appreciate about American cultures, the willingness to be open and vulnerable. Because in my experience living in other countries, I've never seen anyone do that before of the companies I've worked for or worked with in all name called China and Vi…”
Aug 26, 2025 negative
Aug 26, 2025 positive
Aug 26, 2025 negative
Sep 2, 2025 negative
Weisbrot: Long-term therapy persists due to therapists' greed or sheer incompetence
“Either the therapist doesn't want them to solve the problem because it's money, it's revenue, or the therapist doesn't know how to actually engage the person in a way that gets them to come to a resolution on their own.”
Sep 2, 2025 negative
Weisbrot: Severe parental coddling in China deprives children of independent thinking
“I witnessed this in China, where people like the kids were coddled. I've never seen such coddling before in my life. And the parents did not give the children an opportunity to think for themselves and do for themselves. And so they create these kids that are …”
Sep 9, 2025 positive
Sep 9, 2025 neutral
Weisbrot scored in 90s for sales but failed 'dealing with people'
“Yeah, you know how to deal with people is just slightly below the green bar, and that's a really interesting trade, or it's a really interesting result particularly because understanding human nature, general sales knowledge, sales manager, relationship sales,…”
Sep 16, 2025
Sep 23, 2025 bearish
Sep 26, 2025 positive
Weisbrot: Short horizontal clips grow organic audiences faster than full interviews
“What I realized was I can grow the audience much faster organically if I have these, because if somebody doesn't know who I am, but they're being fed a three minute video, they're much more likely to watch that three minute video than that 30 minute interview.”
Sep 26, 2025
Weisbrot: Facilitating crypto exchange listings yielded 10x higher revenue than advisory work
“And then when I was doing that, I realized that they needed other things like getting listed on exchanges. And those were the things that really made me even a magnitude of order higher in money than the other things I was doing. And when I realized that I sto…”
Oct 3, 2025
Oct 10, 2025 negative
Oct 10, 2025 positive
Ferris: Process-focused sports teach emotional detachment that aids business success
“And I think the two that you picked are interesting because they are sort of process over results situations where even if you do it perfectly, you're not going to hit the center of the target maybe every time. And so it also teaches us to deal with our emotio…”
Oct 14, 2025 neutral
Oct 14, 2025 positive
Weisbrot: Domain-specific AI assistants on websites outperform general ChatGPT twins
“So I feel like instead of having something inside of chat to PT, Having something that's specific is better because then you need me for this. Okay, fine. You need me for the cost cutting business. Okay, fine. You need me for this thing. Okay, fine. So I can s…”
Oct 14, 2025 bullish
Oct 14, 2025 positive
Weisbrot: Acquaintance closed over $500k using a custom sales GPT
“Well, the guy I was telling you about, he made a sales master GPT that he uses for himself. And I'm pretty sure he loaded some documents into it. I don't know what, but he said it helped him close over half a million and in contracts and in like a few weeks ju…”
Oct 17, 2025 positive
Oct 24, 2025
Weisbrot: Startups Fail When Inexperienced Founders Treat VC as Personal Wealth
“I think a lot of startups fail because the founders have never seen more than a few thousand dollars at a time in their personal life. And now they have a check for a 1,000,002, five, ten million. And they're like, oh, I'm rich. Right. They don't understand th…”
Oct 27, 2025 positive
Weisbrot's most successful business was 100% referral with $20,000 commissions
“And the best business I ever had was a hundred percent referral, but I was able to afford 20,000 dollar commissions. To my refers. And so they were very hungry and they loved that. And so they worked really hard to bring me clients. So, you know, these clients…”
Oct 27, 2025 positive
Fund managers should target large checks to minimize compliance and communication
“What you want is to have as few clients as possible, give you as much money as possible, because that's how you leverage what you have while minimizing the compliance required and communication required, because some of these people, they may, you know, the th…”
Oct 27, 2025 negative
Weisbrot: Technical Content Attracts Industry Peers, Not Prospective B2B Clients
“If, for example, if you're a lawyer and you're writing about legal stuff, chances are you're going to attract other lawyers, not people that need to hire a lawyer. So
When you're a software development guy, if you want to get clients, don't talk about software…”
Oct 27, 2025 positive
Nov 4, 2025
Weisbrot Built an Eight-Figure Agency by Paying $15K-$20K Referral Commissions
“And that's how I built my eight figure agency was because I had built a network of people who were bringing me clients and I was rewarding them handsomely because I could afford to I've mentioned this before. Some of the commissions were 15, 20,000 dollars bec…”
Nov 4, 2025
Nov 11, 2025 neutral
Lazerow: Entrepreneurs are innately wired to compulsively generate business ideas
“And so what you're experiencing is if you're an entrepreneur, there's no other way. Like, it goes back to that movie, The Crime Game, of why did the scorpion sting the frog on the way across the river, right? Because if he stings the frog, they both die. It's …”
Dec 5, 2025 neutral
Weisbrot: Spent over $1M learning software architecture in prior company
“I had a tech company previously. I had a large development team and I learned a tremendous amount from them about business processes and operations and architecture and all sorts of things that I'm not going to go into. And it's because I had years of experien…”
Dec 5, 2025 positive
Dec 5, 2025 negative
Weisbrot: Founders must write product documentation themselves, not delegate to interns
“Don't have an intern do your documentation. You're the business owner. You're the product owner. You need to do your documentation. Because you are setting the standard. This is your company's culture that you're building right now. And if your culture is I'm …”
Dec 5, 2025 negative
Dec 5, 2025 bearish
Dec 5, 2025 positive
Dec 5, 2025 negative
Weisbrot: Never take product advice or build features for free users
“And if someone is not willing to pay you should not be taking advice from them. Because the people who are using it for free are not your customers. They are people who are not willing to pay. So why should you give them any sort of customer support and or why…”
Dec 5, 2025 bearish
Weisbrot: Vibe-coding without an architect dooms AI startups to scalability failure
“The problem you're going to have if you don't have a technical person on the architecture side is that you may not have bugs, but you may have glaring security problems you're not aware of. You may have glaring database problems that you could lose your custom…”
Dec 5, 2025 positive
Weisbrot: Comprehensive product and technical documentation makes startups scalable and acquirable
“Having all of, you know, the users, the user speech feature future documentation, the technical documentation, the QA documentation, The wireframes, all of these things combined makes this a sellable, a scalable business and a sellable business.”
Dec 5, 2025 positive
Dec 9, 2025 positive
Weisbrot: Built and Shipped a Production SaaS App via Vibe Coding
“I had spent three months building a SAS tool and got it to production and
I told the people in that community and they're like, you can't do that.
Like, what do you mean you can't do that?
They're like, you can't vibe code your way to a production tool.
I go, …”
Dec 9, 2025 negative
Weisbrot: Abandoned Vibe-Coded SaaS Startup After Breaking API Integration
“And it was working. I got everything working. It was perfectly good. I was ready to get those companies on, and then I had made an update, and it broke the API relationship. And I spent weeks trying to fix it, and I couldn't,
and I said, I'm just gonna give th…”
Dec 12, 2025 negative
Weisbrot: 100% of Bootstrapped Founders Love Life, While VC-Backed Founders Face Constant Stress
“The vast majority of the founders are bootstrap to profit. They're mostly doing 10, 20, 30, forty million dollars a year with no co-founders and no investors, and they get to do whatever they want with that money. And a hundred percent of those people that I'v…”
Dec 12, 2025 neutral
Sean Weisbrot: Invested over $500,000 of personal consulting profits into tech startup
“I had an eight figure consulting business and I personally walked away with a lot of that money and I started a tech company and I put in over half a million of my own money to that business before I raised any money from other investors.”
Dec 23, 2025 negative
Weisbrot: Companies should refuse to hire candidates not actively using AI
“Whether you're trying to hire an employee or whether you're trying to find a CFO or whatever it is you're looking for, if they are not already using AI and promoting to you the fact that they're using AI, you probably shouldn't hire them because you're not goi…”
Jan 13, 2026 positive
Weisbrot: Acquiring an existing company is easier than starting from scratch
“I just find it's easier to buy something than to start something from scratch, you know, cause you have to go through all of the things of like product market fit. And the marketing and the sales and building these teams and starting it over. Like, I feel like…”
Jan 13, 2026 negative
Jan 20, 2026 positive
Weisbrot: Claude in Cursor generated full SaaS architecture and spec documents
“I used Claude inside of Cursor to create all of my documents. It created the roadmap. It created the feature specifications. It created the user stories. It created the technical architecture documents. It created all that stuff that like years ago when I had …”
Feb 10, 2026 positive
Feb 24, 2026 negative
Mar 3, 2026 negative
Mar 3, 2026 bearish
Weisbrot: OpenClaw destroys computers, doxes users, and makes unwanted purchases
“There have been countless instances of people installing OpenClaw, and it destroys their entire computer. Or it doxes these people's information, or it spends thousands of dollars buying them things they didn't want, didn't ask for.”
Mar 10, 2026 negative
Mar 17, 2026 negative
Weisbrot spent $40,000 on a fundraising consultant and received zero results
“When I was fundraising, I made the mistake of hiring someone on retainer to help, and I spent 40 grand out of my own money, because this was before we had raised from other people, and I got zero out of it, and I never had any proof that he actually did any wo…”
Mar 24, 2026 negative
Pines: Guest-Centric Podcasts Fail to Build the Host's Personal Brand
“The problem, Sean, is if you have a podcast where you're interviewing, you figure out the target audience, you've outreached the people, then you bring those people to your platform and you show their expertise. That's not really building your personal brand. …”
Mar 24, 2026
Mar 24, 2026 neutral
Weisbrot: Skipping Extensive Guest Research Preserves Curiosity for Podcast Interviews
“I don't prepare anything other than the intro call. Right? So I'll do a little bit of research on them before I decide if I want to do an intro call. But I know there's some people that they'll spend hours doing tons of research just so they could have the per…”
Mar 24, 2026 negative
Weisbrot: YouTube Shorts Outperform Mid-Length Videos but Fail to Convert Subscribers
“With shorts on YouTube, it'll get like, Sometimes 5000 or 10,000 views, but on average it's like 500 to 2000 for a short. But then like the three to five minute content is like a 102 hundred views, maybe 300 views. So the shorts perform much better than the mi…”
Apr 3, 2026 positive
Weisbrot: Crypto advisory and fundraising in China generated $15 million
“And after two months of doing that, I was able to raise money for the guy and then he wanted me to advise him and then other people wanted me to fundraise and then other people wanted me to advise and then this whole thing kind of spiraled into a crazy thing a…”
Apr 10, 2026
Weisbrot: Early Startups Should Hire for Zero-to-One Experience, Not Enterprise Scaling
“If you need a marketing person who's taken a company from launch to a million ARR, you should find someone that's done that to help you to do it rather than look for someone that's done. Ten million to a hundred million when you're zero, because they just may …”
Apr 14, 2026 neutral
Sean Weisbrot: Living in China for Ten Years Muted His Outward Emotions
“I was a 10 years in China. And in inside mainland China, like people don't really show their emotions too much. So over 10 years of living there, I kind of stopped really showing my emotions, even though I didn't stop feeling them.”
Apr 14, 2026
Apr 21, 2026 negative
Apr 28, 2026 positive
Apr 28, 2026 neutral
Apr 28, 2026
Apr 28, 2026 negative
Cates: Passing the 'Beer Test' Is a Flawed Metric for Hiring Talent
“Just cause someone is a little different than us in their personality, just because we might not enjoy an hour. Over a beer or two with them doesn't mean they couldn't be a great asset for our company. So, I mean, I get the idea. I get the kind of the energy b…”
May 5, 2026
May 5, 2026 positive
Weisbrot: Non-Technical Founder Built Financial SaaS Prototype Using Claude
“And so I worked with Claude and I built this software myself as a non-technical founder, but having experience with a previous company that I had started, I understood what my team was doing then. So I knew, okay, there's a backend, there's a front end, there'…”
May 12, 2026
May 19, 2026 negative
May 19, 2026 bullish
Jun 2, 2026
Weisbrot explored acquiring a $4 million online recurring-revenue business
“About three or four months ago, I kind of woke up one day and I was like, you know, I should look online and see if there's a company that I can acquire. And I looked around and I found this one and I just couldn't stop thinking about it. And I can't remember …”
Jun 23, 2026 negative
Weisbrot: Laid off designer because AI creates better thumbnails in a minute
“I had a designer and the AI is able to produce better work than the designer faster and cheaper. Like, you know, it used to cost It used to take three days to get a thumbnail back. The AI can do it in a minute, and it's better quality. And so I had to let the …”
Jul 21, 2026
Weisbrot: Launched Solo AI App in Under a Month for $1,000
“I started in you know, launched a production ready software by myself in less than a month. And it cost me 50 dollars a month to manage it. But it cost me probably a thousand dollars to actually build the software and the website and all of this stuff because …”
Jul 21, 2026 negative
Weisbrot: Chooses deterministic automations over AI agents due to lack of trust
“I've implemented dozens of automations into my podcast operations. And I did it as automations, not as agents, even though everyone on the internet is trying to sell me agents. I did it because I don't trust agents. At least not yet.”
Jul 28, 2026 bullish
Aug 25, 2026 negative
Weisbrot: Profitable business owners lack urgency to adopt LinkedIn posting tools
“Every single person I get on a demo with, they all acknowledge instantly that they know they should be more visible on LinkedIn and they should be posting more often, but there's no sense of urgency to do so because they already have a profitable business. Oka…”
Aug 25, 2026 positive
Weisbrot: Claude codebase access enables testing new software features within an hour
“Claude is helping me to build the software. So Claude can see every file in, in my software code. It can read everything from the repository. So there's no reason to not go, hey, Claude, I just had a demo, and the person gave me three things of feedback. What …”
Aug 25, 2026 neutral
Weisbrot: Three strategic criteria required before implementing new software features
“I'm trying to look at it from the point of view of if I'm going to implement this, how does it either make it more sticky, make it more obvious to say yes to in the beginning or make the learning loop more intelligent. And if it could do one of those three thi…”
Aug 25, 2026 neutral
Sep 8, 2026 positive
Founders can use Cursor and Claude to sync marketing and app repositories
“So I, because I'm also doing the marketing, I have two repositories that are both local folders and sync to GitHub. And so what I've done is I've built all of the technical documentation into the repository. Of my application, and then I have, ah, I have a set…”