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Greg Isenberg

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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

You mentioned two competitors, meaning... Well, 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

You mentioned two competitors, meaning... Well, 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

Yeah, I think, uh, okay. So I'll be honest. I, I don't feel personally like I would be able to execute this particular idea and, and when, um, That's because I'm just not super technical, but I'm technical enough to hear what you're saying and be like, that's a real problem. Someone is going to do really well to fix it. And the time is now. Oh, for sure.

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

Yeah, I think, uh, okay. So I'll be honest. I, I don't feel personally like I would be able to execute this particular idea and, and when, um, That's because I'm just not super technical, but I'm technical enough to hear what you're saying and be like, that's a real problem. Someone is going to do really well to fix it. And the time is now. Oh, for sure.

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

Yeah, I think, uh, okay. So I'll be honest. I, I don't feel personally like I would be able to execute this particular idea and, and when, um, That's because I'm just not super technical, but I'm technical enough to hear what you're saying and be like, that's a real problem. Someone is going to do really well to fix it. And the time is now. Oh, for sure.

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

Totally. It gets me thinking that if you want to build a startup and you're looking for startup ideas that are going to work, maybe a good way is to just ask a particular type of founder, i.e. AI hardware founders or e-commerce founders and be like, what are the five biggest problems that you would pay money for to solve? What do you think about that?

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

Totally. It gets me thinking that if you want to build a startup and you're looking for startup ideas that are going to work, maybe a good way is to just ask a particular type of founder, i.e. AI hardware founders or e-commerce founders and be like, what are the five biggest problems that you would pay money for to solve? What do you think about that?

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

Totally. It gets me thinking that if you want to build a startup and you're looking for startup ideas that are going to work, maybe a good way is to just ask a particular type of founder, i.e. AI hardware founders or e-commerce founders and be like, what are the five biggest problems that you would pay money for to solve? What do you think about that?

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

Every real idea is going to be technical. What do you mean by that?

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

Every real idea is going to be technical. What do you mean by that?

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

Every real idea is going to be technical. What do you mean by that?

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

You don't think that business creation has a spectrum of how technical things are? Morning Brew, for example, I think they make $100 million a year or something like that. But it's a newsletter business. They're just built on top of

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

You don't think that business creation has a spectrum of how technical things are? Morning Brew, for example, I think they make $100 million a year or something like that. But it's a newsletter business. They're just built on top of

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

You don't think that business creation has a spectrum of how technical things are? Morning Brew, for example, I think they make $100 million a year or something like that. But it's a newsletter business. They're just built on top of

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

Just, no, I love, I love, I love hearing, cause you know, it's different than how I think, you know? Um, so, um, and I, you know, that's part of the pod. Like I want to bring on diversity of people, right? So if I just want to make sure I was understanding you correctly, basically what you're saying is, um, All businesses are technical.

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

Just, no, I love, I love, I love hearing, cause you know, it's different than how I think, you know? Um, so, um, and I, you know, that's part of the pod. Like I want to bring on diversity of people, right? So if I just want to make sure I was understanding you correctly, basically what you're saying is, um, All businesses are technical.

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

Just, no, I love, I love, I love hearing, cause you know, it's different than how I think, you know? Um, so, um, and I, you know, that's part of the pod. Like I want to bring on diversity of people, right? So if I just want to make sure I was understanding you correctly, basically what you're saying is, um, All businesses are technical.

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

Therefore, in order to be like you, let me let me just like like all businesses are technical because business is technical. Is it not? I think that some businesses are more technical than other businesses. If I were to go to create Varda, which is building warehouses in space or whatever, I think that's way harder than building a newsletter, for example.

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

Therefore, in order to be like you, let me let me just like like all businesses are technical because business is technical. Is it not? I think that some businesses are more technical than other businesses. If I were to go to create Varda, which is building warehouses in space or whatever, I think that's way harder than building a newsletter, for example.

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

Therefore, in order to be like you, let me let me just like like all businesses are technical because business is technical. Is it not? I think that some businesses are more technical than other businesses. If I were to go to create Varda, which is building warehouses in space or whatever, I think that's way harder than building a newsletter, for example.