Mike Hudack
speaker
274 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard Dec 2024
Mike Hudack’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsNo recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.
Appearances
What haven't we covered that we should? Pricing, monetization, how you make money. Yeah. It's important. Oh, yeah. The first thing I'll say is that one of my favorite lines about this is, I think it's originally a Walt Disney quote, which is, we don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.
And Facebook co-opted this, and it's in the little red book, you know, which is, we don't make services to make money, we make money to make better services. And I really believe that the most successful companies in the world have that view. I think that you can build an incredibly successful company that makes you millions of dollars that does not have that view.
You know, that's kind of like the more mercenary approach, but you kind of need to decide who you are before you start with your pricing strategy.
Thanks, dude.
Oh my God, so many things. You asked me to come up with startup ideas. What are the most annoying things that you've had to do in the last week that have taken you a bunch of time that you feel like an AI could do by just throwing some compute at it? Do you have a list? Do you know what they are?
Like, can you find like, cause I mean, I can tell you off the top of my head, right? Like I would pay an AI agent to book me a flight. Right. I'd pay an AI agent to book me a hotel. I'd pay an AI agent to book me a restaurant or find me a restaurant. And I'd probably spend a lot of money on all three of those things. Yeah.
And I think that those are all things that they could be really tremendously good at.
I think that's exactly right. And I like, I think about, okay, so these are all things that I've had to do in the last week. Right. I've also had to deal with scheduling, which is really annoying. And I was really struck. I had a really amazing, like personalized AI, like LLM experience recently where I used, I was trying to find this investor I was talking to who's Japanese.
I remember that when I spoke with him, he was in California. And he's on the board of some Japanese financial conglomerate, but I couldn't think of the name. And so it's going to be a nightmare to find in Superhuman. But I realized that there was Ask AI. And I just said all of that. And it came up with the wrong answer the first time. And I said, no, no, no.
The guy I'm talking about has a Japanese name. And it came up with the right answer the second time. And it was the first time that I've had like a really personalized, like, I'm just talking out loud, trying to, like, find recall moment where, like, an AI actually really solved that problem for me.
And we use AI, I'm building this thing called Sling Money right now, and we use AI for a bunch of stuff for customer service, for financial crime, compliance reasons, you know, all sorts of things. It automates repetitive tasks, which are a real pain, like going and we use this thing called the
green light to do edd like enhanced due diligence on people so it goes and searches the web and then comes back with all the information you can just click one button you know it's great um and i i think that if you were to catalog all the things in your life which are like a real pain in the ass that fit your criteria it's a good list
um you you could very quickly like train an llm on your past restaurant visits or your google maps history or your email to like learn about what kind of stuff you like and then it can just have you seen the new arc uh the new browser company browser dia Yeah, I think that's what it's called. They've been kind of teasing it a little bit and it goes and it browses and it explains what it's doing.
You just type, you're like, hey, do this for me. And it's like, oh, okay, I'm going to go do this. I'm now going to click on this thing. Why can't you just have that for all the things that I have to do every day that's a pain in the ass? And I'd pay five bucks for each one of them.
That's so interesting. So some of the best AI stuff I'm seeing right now, there are three that I think are really amazing. So Greenlight is one, which we use for FinCrime. Another one is Granola, which is like a personal note-taking app.
Yeah, G-R-E-E-N-L-I-T-E. It's like a fin crime. It's like a compliance thing.
This fits into the same category of task where when you're running a bank or a financial product, you often have to do research on people to clear an alert. or you have to like figure out what somebody is trying to do with a transaction or something like that. And that's like a lot of really manual work. And most of it now can just be completely automated. Dude, this is crazy. Yeah. This is crazy.
So I was their first customer. Sling was their first customer. And we were like their design partner and they're crushing it now. I mean, just unbelievable.
Massive.
Okay. What was the other one? So Granola, which is a note-taking app. Right. I should say I'm invested in all three of these. Okay. Um, so this is an AI like notepad, so it can listen to your meeting and then write notes for you, but you can, it's very cool because it, um, takes notes collaboratively with you so you can write notes and then it fills them in.
Showing 1–20 of 274 · page 1 of 14
Next →