Jesse Zhang

Problem could be like, how do I build a successful company?

And you kind of break down the problem.

You can like think really critically and just from first principles, a lot of these markets.

Of course, that's not the only way to build a company.

Other people, I think some people just have like very good intuition, especially on these like PLG type things.

But in general, I think just the problem solving capability, like what these contests really teach you is like you're just solving problems.

And those problems, of course, are not real problems in real life, but the sort of thinking is the same.

Emotional?

I think I'm a bit older now, so it's not really that emotional.

I started a company before this that was, I would say, way tougher than the current one.

I think just like mentally, it makes you feel a lot more calm and appreciative of when things are going well.

And timing matters a lot.

I think when I first started, I graduated year early to try to start it.

And I would say we had a very fortunate outcome, but the whole journey was like very bumpy.

What was it?

What did it do?

So the company was called Lowkey.

We basically built high performance video capture software for video games.

So when people are playing games, you can really easily capture video clips and edit them and share them.

And the whole goal of the product is just like you just get as many users as possible.