Greg Eisenberg

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The Startup Ideas Podcast · Silicon Valley founder shares 3 of her best 150+ ideas · 24 Jul 2024 podcast

So for example, so far sounds a lot of people go to those events, at least in my, like, and anecdotally, it's like, they're going on a first date basically there. It's like, it's kind of perfect, right? It's like 60 minutes, you know, it's, it's not, you're just going to a bar or something like that. You're like doing something a little interactive.

And then after you can talk about it and they'll probably be cool people there. So if you were doing, you know, so besides, so for your example, like talks, comedians, scientists, like those to me, like there's probably so far sounds for science, so far sounds for comedy, so far sounds for, you know, talks. What do you think about that?

I stand corrected. Also, I'd love that line. That line is so good. I'm going to reuse that all the time. And you're right with, with Notion specifically, like We use Notion. We probably have like 70 or 80 people on Notion. And there is no network effects because I've thought about it too, because we're thinking about moving off of it.

And now it's just, there were network effects with some of these businesses when it was really hard to get the graph on there. But like, you know, it's really easy to post a link on Slack and get my team to use something else, you know? So, When people were saying network effects were everything, that was like in 2005, 2006, 2007, when that was a lot harder.

There's only one thing I'll push back on in what you just said, which is. the business will take up 10, 15 plus years of your life. For some businesses, that's absolutely true. And, but I think we're entering this new era of micro businesses.

So, you know, 10, 15, 20, 50 years ago, when you wanted to create a business, it was this, it was this, it was like clowning Mount Everest in terms of like what you needed to get done. You know, back in the day when it was, when there was no internet and you wanted to, let's say, make a store, like you had to go and like,

find the location and spend so much money renovating it and painting and merchandising and getting the suppliers. You know, then 15, 20 years ago, if you wanted to put an e-commerce store, you had to like build your own shopping cart. There was no Shopify. Now what's cool is you can stand on the shoulders of giants and there is like a lower price

kind of a lower risk way of putting things out there. Now, these businesses might not be as big as Jam, and you might need to create a portfolio of them to end up making it meaningful, but that's my take on the business needs to be 10 to 15 years.

A hundred percent. Yeah. I feel you. I feel you on that, you know, and especially if you take venture, that's also like, you're definitely signing yourself up for, a chapter of your life. And where, you know, I guess the difference is some businesses are chapters and some businesses are pages and know the difference between a page and a chapter.

Before we head out, I need to tell you quickly the story of how I met Michelle Zaitlin from the co-founder of Cloudflare and her husband, Jamie, I think his name is.

So I think, and he was also involved in Cloudflare, I think. Jamie was, was he? I don't know.

So people know this, I'm Canadian. When I first came out to San Francisco, I didn't know anyone, but there was this Facebook group called AC781. And AC781 stood for Air Canada 781, the flight from Montreal to San Francisco. And for whatever reason, I was in this group and I was coming to San Francisco and looking to sublet a place. I didn't know anyone.

I was probably like 20 years old or something. And Michelle responded. And she's like, hey, I've got this startup called Cloudflare and we've got this... we've got this space and it's a studio and she rented it to me for like nothing, literally out of the goodness of her own heart. And, uh, really got me like hooked onto San Francisco and, and, uh, changed my life from that little moment.

And I think you never know who you're going to meet, you know, now, I mean, now Cloudfair is like a $20 billion company. You never know who you're going to meet. And, uh, it was just so cool how and positive and how she gave back. So I will say there's power in community and, uh, shoot your shot.

Yeah, totally. Danny, it's been a pleasure. Uh, People, please like and comment the YouTube video. If you're not watching this on YouTube, just get on YouTube and like it and comment on it. I hate that I say this now, but it actually gets the video spread and gets the pod spread.

If you enjoyed this, if you got an ounce of value, I mean, she gave you a bunch of great ideas and a bunch of good frameworks for thinking about this. So thank you, Dani. Where could people find out more about you and Jam?

This is amazing. So you just put up the deck?

Yeah, I'm just going through the deck right now. Everyone should go check this out because... This is so well done. A good deck is just very clear around here's the problems, here's the solutions. And for anyone who's doing any business idea, even if you're not raising venture, creating a deck like this will just help. It'll help you clarify what you're doing. This is really good. Check it out.

Thank you for sharing this. And yeah, we'll link the the notion and this in the YouTube description for for people.

Thanks, Danny. Later.

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