Sam Kamani

What is one lesson that you have learned being a founder that you can share with other founders for people building and especially relevant to people building in this space?

Absolutely.

Especially if you work in crypto, then saying optimistic is a very, very big deal.

You have to because market is going to go up and down all the time.

And so I feel like...

You get a lot more gray hair.

You lose a lot more hair if you work in crypto.

But it is still fun.

It is still a very, very dynamic industry.

Apart from AI, this is like the most dynamic place where you can work, where every day is different and all that.

Absolutely.

A hundred percent.

It's like, that is such a good insight.

And it's like, you know, in AI, there's only five big companies and all the funding goes to only five big companies.

It's very, very hard.

It's like, because I talk with founders on all different spectrums of tech and

And it is very discouraging to be a founder in AI because you build something over two years or year, year and a half, and you get some market share and you get some users and all that.

You raise funding, all that.

And the next day you wake up and Claude has made you obsolete because...

People can just do natively on cloud or chat GPT or open it, whatever your wrapper or whatever your platform was providing that functionality or SAS or whatever it was doing.