Dr. Aqib Rashid

So I think that certainly influences the way I work because I've always been pushed towards that drive for excellence and that drive for perfection, wherever it is reasonable.

But it's not always necessary that you need to arrive at a perfect solution every time.

But that drive towards excellence is absolutely essential.

And that's effectively what's been influencing me and still continues to influence me to this day.

So I would suggest to any young entrepreneurs is to build something that deserves trust before you build something that seems to be impressive, but somebody could potentially copy overnight and somebody could get to much quicker than you.

For example, an analogy in cybersecurity and AI, AI in cybersecurity is that it's very easy to build an AI model that looks good on a benchmark.

But having that model then do very well in the real world under adversarial conditions is a very different problem.

And I think that translates to pretty much anything else.

So get that early feedback, get that validation from prospects and customers and people who know more than you before you try to build the perfect solution for a problem that

might have been solved already might not exist or somebody might have might have the capacity to do better than you that is a fundamental aspect in the way of working these days with the rise of ai is that it is very easy now to build products very quickly

And along the way, of course, you will make mistakes and things will go wrong.

But the question then becomes is, do you have the fortitude and the resilience to stand up and to say, no, I'm not giving up here.

And instead, I'm going to spend some time, energy, effort and some brainpower

to either fix this, remediate it or just to build something better.

I think that is important.

So seek validation, seek that trust and don't try to build something which is going to be unsustainable.

And certainly don't go for a problem which is effectively going to be solved by an AI agent in virtually no amount of time compared to you.

So spend your time as wisely as you possibly can is what I would say.

Thank you, Noah.

It's been great.