My first interview with Shuo Wang (@shuoshuooshuooo), Co-Founder & CRO of @Deel. 1:08 Designing Deel To Scale Quickly 3:28 Why Companies Should Go Global Early 7:30 Building Deel’s Sales Team 10:33 Why Shuo Loves Sales 14:44 Pivoting 3 Times During YC & Being Shameless 19:06 Dreaming About Intercom 22:04 Solving Payment Delays Early On 25:11 Joining YC As A Crypto Payment Platform For Content Creators 32:37 How To Make Decisions Before You Have Data 36:30 Why It Was So Painful To Open Corporate Entities During Covid 39:57 Thinking Outside The Box 44:15 Why Covid Was “A Lifetime Opportunity” For Deel 46:11 Deel Speed 47:55 Argentina & Brazil 50:07 Interviewing Deel’s First 400 Employees 51:33 Screening For Happiness 52:59 Creating Ghost Busters (Special Projects Team) 59:16 Having A Co-Founder You Can Rely On 1:03:31 Why Offsites Are Important 1:06:07 Torturing Yourself Into Greatness 1:07:20 Learning How To Run A Business From Her Mom 1:11:26 Growing Up In China With Her Grandparents 1:15:51 Moving To The United States At 16 1:24:13 Building An Air Purifier Company In China 1:30:18 Being An Outsider In Silicon Valley 1:31:08 Focusing On One Product vs. Building Multiple Products 1:32:46 What PMF Was Like At Deel 1:34:46 How Shuo Thinks About Risk 1:37:18 Understand The Problem, Not The Solution 1:42:08 Creating An 11-Star Customer Experience 1:43:44 What Makes Alex Special 1:46:00 Poker 1:46:43 Always Look At The Positives Even In Tough Situations

My first interview with Ian Brooke (@k2pilot), founder & CEO of @AstroMechanica. 0:31 Creating Long-Range Supersonic Planes 3:07 Private Jets vs Airliners 8:26 How Insanely Expensive Private Jets Actually Are 11:30 Building Great Products That Last Forever 20:39 Front Loading Work To Design Things Well 30:42 Making Contact With Reality 43:32 Following Your Intuition 48:38 Thinking In Shapes 53:54 Expressing Yourself Through Building Things 58:56 Starting With A Vague Idea & Sharpening The Vision Over Time 1:03:16 Trying To Tell A Story vs Just Building Something 1:17:44 Seed & Soil - Emmett Shear 1:27:57 Doing Things That Bring You Joy & Energy 1:32:35 Keeping The Product Vision In Your Head

My first interview with @ClementDelangue, cofounder & CEO of @HuggingFace. 0:52 Creating an affordable robot 11:24 Incentives 14:20 Hiring generalists 20:24 Designing a robot for builders 25:13 Focus is saying no 31:08 Slowly compounding for years 36:30 Optimizing for trust 39:12 Sisyphus 45:13 Great companies are just living embodiments of their founders 48:46 Two-way doors 54:17 Figuring out what you love to do 1:01:12 Living with uncertainty 1:04:36 Setting the right expectations with AI products 1:09:15 Why open-source matters 1:21:07 Real trends vs fake trends 1:30:30 Pavel Durov & France 1:33:59 Why China is leading in open-source AI 1:38:32 XAI open-sourcing Grok 3 1:43:17 Trends in robotics