Spencer Rascoff

Like if you call United Airlines or you go to American Airlines website, you'll interact with basically an AI chat bot and talk with, I want to change my flight or, can you issue me a refund or whatever? So big companies have that, but small businesses don't.

Like if you call United Airlines or you go to American Airlines website, you'll interact with basically an AI chat bot and talk with, I want to change my flight or, can you issue me a refund or whatever? So big companies have that, but small businesses don't.

And so what HeyLibby.ai does is it creates for any small business, whether you're a plumber, an electrician, a housekeeper, a wedding photographer, a spa operator, hairdresser, et cetera. It lets you create your own AI sales receptionist that will do triage with your customers when they're reaching out to you for different things. So that's that business. It's a former team from Zillow.

And so what HeyLibby.ai does is it creates for any small business, whether you're a plumber, an electrician, a housekeeper, a wedding photographer, a spa operator, hairdresser, et cetera. It lets you create your own AI sales receptionist that will do triage with your customers when they're reaching out to you for different things. So that's that business. It's a former team from Zillow.

We've raised a couple million dollars in venture capital, and it's an early stage startup. And then I won't go through all seven, don't worry. But just to tell you about one other, for example, a company called Q, which is Q-U-E-U-E, is one of my startups that lets people track what to watch and figure out what streaming services different TV shows or films are available on.

We've raised a couple million dollars in venture capital, and it's an early stage startup. And then I won't go through all seven, don't worry. But just to tell you about one other, for example, a company called Q, which is Q-U-E-U-E, is one of my startups that lets people track what to watch and figure out what streaming services different TV shows or films are available on.

So it's sort of like a social TV guide and it's solving the problem of figuring out what to watch because streaming has become so fragmented that it's very hard to know what's where or what you're watching where It used to be easy when you could look in the paper and see the TV listings. Now it's too fragmented. And so we've built a social layer on top of a TV guide, essentially.

So it's sort of like a social TV guide and it's solving the problem of figuring out what to watch because streaming has become so fragmented that it's very hard to know what's where or what you're watching where It used to be easy when you could look in the paper and see the TV listings. Now it's too fragmented. And so we've built a social layer on top of a TV guide, essentially.

So that's what Q does. We have millions of downloads. We've raised a couple million dollars of venture capital.

So that's what Q does. We have millions of downloads. We've raised a couple million dollars of venture capital.

You asked a good question, which is what motivates me or what's the common thread here? The common thread is I'm trying to build products that I want to exist in the world, and I'm trying to do them with founding teams that want my mentorship and counsel. So for each of these seven companies, I'm not the CEO. I'm the chairperson. I'm the founder. And I motivate them and I mentor them.

You asked a good question, which is what motivates me or what's the common thread here? The common thread is I'm trying to build products that I want to exist in the world, and I'm trying to do them with founding teams that want my mentorship and counsel. So for each of these seven companies, I'm not the CEO. I'm the chairperson. I'm the founder. And I motivate them and I mentor them.

And it's just an extension of how I led at Zillow. And in that case, I was the CEO and I was leading my direct reports. And in this case, it's just across seven different companies. But I exist to help them achieve their full potential. And that's what motivates me and what I spend my time doing.

And it's just an extension of how I led at Zillow. And in that case, I was the CEO and I was leading my direct reports. And in this case, it's just across seven different companies. But I exist to help them achieve their full potential. And that's what motivates me and what I spend my time doing.

I would say be curious, go deep on things. I'll give you a quick example. I teach a course. One of the things I do is I teach this course on entrepreneurship, I think I mentioned. And one of my students told me that she just became super obsessed as an undergrad in college, became obsessed with packaging with Amazon. She's like, how come this Amazon package has these airbags in it?

I would say be curious, go deep on things. I'll give you a quick example. I teach a course. One of the things I do is I teach this course on entrepreneurship, I think I mentioned. And one of my students told me that she just became super obsessed as an undergrad in college, became obsessed with packaging with Amazon. She's like, how come this Amazon package has these airbags in it?

And how come this one comes in an envelope and this one comes in a box? And how does Amazon make these decisions? She went super deep on this. And listened to podcasts, watched YouTube videos, started interviewing experts on the topic, went super deep, kept all these notes, crazy, beautiful mind, like a yarn on a whiteboard kind of thing, trying to learn everything she could about this.

And how come this one comes in an envelope and this one comes in a box? And how does Amazon make these decisions? She went super deep on this. And listened to podcasts, watched YouTube videos, started interviewing experts on the topic, went super deep, kept all these notes, crazy, beautiful mind, like a yarn on a whiteboard kind of thing, trying to learn everything she could about this.

And coming out the other end from that has emerged a couple startup ideas that she might go start companies, or maybe she'll go work at one of these companies. And so most people are curious about something and they just sort of shrug their shoulders, but she decided to go super deep and learn.

And coming out the other end from that has emerged a couple startup ideas that she might go start companies, or maybe she'll go work at one of these companies. And so most people are curious about something and they just sort of shrug their shoulders, but she decided to go super deep and learn.