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Avi Schiffmann

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The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

know existing infrastructure versus you know building this memory idea uh to me technical is not like technology like like like high technology necessarily you know like uh like programming okay like i'm looking around me there's a whiteboard over there there's an air purifier there's a rug over here a water bottle an sd card a rock that's shaped like a pyramid um I don't know.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

know existing infrastructure versus you know building this memory idea uh to me technical is not like technology like like like high technology necessarily you know like uh like programming okay like i'm looking around me there's a whiteboard over there there's an air purifier there's a rug over here a water bottle an sd card a rock that's shaped like a pyramid um I don't know.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

know existing infrastructure versus you know building this memory idea uh to me technical is not like technology like like like high technology necessarily you know like uh like programming okay like i'm looking around me there's a whiteboard over there there's an air purifier there's a rug over here a water bottle an sd card a rock that's shaped like a pyramid um I don't know.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

All these things are inherently technical in many aspects. And like even if you are business oriented, right, like you still there's still technical aspects to setting up a business and, you know, pitching in a sense like these are everything is. I mean, technical just I don't even know the definition of that is just like. like details, I don't know how to describe it.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

All these things are inherently technical in many aspects. And like even if you are business oriented, right, like you still there's still technical aspects to setting up a business and, you know, pitching in a sense like these are everything is. I mean, technical just I don't even know the definition of that is just like. like details, I don't know how to describe it.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

All these things are inherently technical in many aspects. And like even if you are business oriented, right, like you still there's still technical aspects to setting up a business and, you know, pitching in a sense like these are everything is. I mean, technical just I don't even know the definition of that is just like. like details, I don't know how to describe it.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

I do agree with you, sure. I think, yeah, I don't think like startup success also is correlated with like how technical, you know, your thing is, right? Like, let's say, Morning Brew, I guess you were mentioning is not, you know, inherently technical, maybe the same way that a lot of people perceive that definition, but they...

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

I do agree with you, sure. I think, yeah, I don't think like startup success also is correlated with like how technical, you know, your thing is, right? Like, let's say, Morning Brew, I guess you were mentioning is not, you know, inherently technical, maybe the same way that a lot of people perceive that definition, but they...

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

I do agree with you, sure. I think, yeah, I don't think like startup success also is correlated with like how technical, you know, your thing is, right? Like, let's say, Morning Brew, I guess you were mentioning is not, you know, inherently technical, maybe the same way that a lot of people perceive that definition, but they...

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

you know, might still succeed a lot more than someone that's building something so high tech, like someone that's trying to build fusion reactors, let's say, or something really deep tech and weird and crazy, or some, you know, mad scientist trying to come up with some weird idea. Yeah, you know, tech technical does not necessarily correlate with success.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

you know, might still succeed a lot more than someone that's building something so high tech, like someone that's trying to build fusion reactors, let's say, or something really deep tech and weird and crazy, or some, you know, mad scientist trying to come up with some weird idea. Yeah, you know, tech technical does not necessarily correlate with success.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

you know, might still succeed a lot more than someone that's building something so high tech, like someone that's trying to build fusion reactors, let's say, or something really deep tech and weird and crazy, or some, you know, mad scientist trying to come up with some weird idea. Yeah, you know, tech technical does not necessarily correlate with success.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

And maybe I think that's the path some people might mistakenly go down, you know, they think it needs to be more complicated than it really needs to be. But isn't the whole point of engineering too to simplify complexity anyways? Totally.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

And maybe I think that's the path some people might mistakenly go down, you know, they think it needs to be more complicated than it really needs to be. But isn't the whole point of engineering too to simplify complexity anyways? Totally.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

And maybe I think that's the path some people might mistakenly go down, you know, they think it needs to be more complicated than it really needs to be. But isn't the whole point of engineering too to simplify complexity anyways? Totally.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

I don't know. Just don't be boring and don't work on something stupid. Again, you're only going to work on so many things in your life. You have a short bubble of consciousness while we're alive right now. Who knows? Maybe we'll extend that during our lifetimes. In the short bubble of consciousness, just don't waste it. It's something you don't feel confidently proud about. If you're

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

I don't know. Just don't be boring and don't work on something stupid. Again, you're only going to work on so many things in your life. You have a short bubble of consciousness while we're alive right now. Who knows? Maybe we'll extend that during our lifetimes. In the short bubble of consciousness, just don't waste it. It's something you don't feel confidently proud about. If you're

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

I don't know. Just don't be boring and don't work on something stupid. Again, you're only going to work on so many things in your life. You have a short bubble of consciousness while we're alive right now. Who knows? Maybe we'll extend that during our lifetimes. In the short bubble of consciousness, just don't waste it. It's something you don't feel confidently proud about. If you're

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

If you are, then I don't know. I think that's just your problem and no one else is going to tell you anything otherwise. In terms of where you can find me. Definitely friend.com for now. Or if you have some pop-up thingy, I mean, sure, you can go to my Twitter. I would highly recommend if you want to see me post videos about motorcycles for the most part. But yeah, thank you. Thank you, Greg.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

If you are, then I don't know. I think that's just your problem and no one else is going to tell you anything otherwise. In terms of where you can find me. Definitely friend.com for now. Or if you have some pop-up thingy, I mean, sure, you can go to my Twitter. I would highly recommend if you want to see me post videos about motorcycles for the most part. But yeah, thank you. Thank you, Greg.