Akshay Kothari
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first heard Sep 2024
last heard Sep 2024
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And one of the things I realized as a student, the superpower of meeting investors is that what I saw in Pulse was like just another RSS reader. And what she saw in Pulse was this next generation browser for the iPad. And it really sort of made my idea like 100x stronger, just like having that meeting and having her talk about like someone seeing the vision even before you do it.
I think that was incredible.
I think in general, I would say almost all advice is genius for a subset of people and completely rubbish for the rest of them. I think you can take literally everything. I mean, even founder mode. Founder mode is really good if you have a founder who's right a lot. If they're not, God bless that company.
So I think, I don't know, I think I've moved away from giving advice to more share my experience with what happened at Notion or Pulse, because I found that to be like, I think hopefully you can take the right learnings from them and apply it to what your situation is. What have you changed your mind on in the last 12 months? One of the things I think my wife was right on this one.
One of the things I used to do about a year or two ago was try to like pack up every hour of my kids weekend with like activities. And I was like, oh, they can't be bored. Like they got to do this. They got to do that. And then, you know, we just spent like a month in India this summer and they had no programming and they were just like sitting around with family and
In many cases, my daughter complained she was bored, but I think both of them grew so much with all these interactions. And I've realized that, I don't know, boredom is good. I think it's okay for them to not be occupied every hour of the day. What concerns you most in the world today? I think this like general TikTokification of every social app, I'm really worried about that.
Every social app has become like one or two clicks away from infinite stream of viral videos, which I think is like just really sad. Has it not helped, Notion?
Similar to this podcast, I think there's definitely better content out there. I'm not saying necessarily like Notion content is better, but how many people have controls over this information that they're consuming? They didn't have that even when they're watching TV or something. But the thing that I worry about is just the consumption to creation ratio has gone out of whack a little bit.
Do you think so?
Yeah, but creating what, though?
I think the question, I guess, I don't know, maybe I'm being cynical here, but I wonder what people are creating and what people are consuming and whether it's actually... So I actually tweeted this this morning.
Yeah, I would love to see in some ways how do we make learning and education more what people want to do. And I actually think, like, I don't know, people watching this podcast hopefully learn a few things.
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Yeah, that clearly sort of resonates, but also like if you're just maximizing attention time, which these social apps are doing, it does sort of just sort of like spiral down to that. You have to change the incentive mechanism of the app. Exactly.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, I just sort of worry that I think the incentives right now, at least for these companies that are primarily ad based are just like it's going to be a hard one to move to subscriptions.
No, at least not till when they're a lot older. Actually, one of the best things that happened this year in the last month, my daughter's school sort of banned devices in school. I'm just really glad because once a month I would have a conversation with her about some of her friend wearing an Apple Watch. And I explained like, sorry, but we're not getting it at this age.
But now I don't have to explain that, which is nice.
One of the things that I've been reflecting on is a little bit sort of like that, you know, the Steve Jobs speech around how you connect the dots looking back. I didn't appreciate it when I was growing up in this small city in Gujarat in India, how sort of growing up there and surrounded by families.
friends and family there how it would have shaped the things that i do today and so i think some of those some of that exploration is super fun to especially as i get closer to 40 it's like wow like all my creative genes probably comes from my mom and all my business genes probably comes from my dad and and like all these different things that i did when i was young in some ways has made what i do today possible actually listen i so appreciate you putting up with my meandering you've been fantastic to have on the show so thank you so much for joining me thank you for having me
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