Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Was it the knowledge of how to cut a video together?

Was it topics?

And just to orient in the history of the business, how much revenue or whatever was there at the start of this S-curve and how quickly did it accelerate?

And it sort of exploded.

since there.

How are you going to be empirical about that in the same way that you've been about product and marketing so far?

If you think about the experience of, you said you'd built some enterprise companies before this versus consumer.

It seems like in the last five years, for a long time, no one invested in consumer because actually really up until, I guess, very recently, AI is, of course, unlocking things in interesting ways.

If you were to pitch a young entrepreneur, a teenager or a young college student on building a consumer business rather than the much more traditional B2B thing that's dominated the startup world for a long time, what would your pitch be?

Why is it fun and different to build this kind of business?

If I think about the two big world things happening that probably most impact your business, they're out of your control.

It's AI and GLP-1s.

And I'm really curious how you think about both of those things as creators of opportunity, as potentially risks.

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