A mention for those who helped a bit on the application as a token of appreciation would had been nice...
> Shout out to Syrus Akbury (W19), Ian Tien (S12), and Taariq Lewis (S15) for encouraging me to apply and helping me with my application way back when :)
But seriously, thank you so much Syrus! I was thinking about you 3 the whole time while I wrote the post, hoping it would help someone else like how you helped me!
Let’s keep the chain going!
1. We had revenue, meaning we weren't afraid to charge. Many first founders are afraid of charging, and there is step-wise more validation having $100/month than $0.
2. We had a product that my partners could actually download and use.
3. "You seemed young and hungry. And I like young and hungry." - Michael Seibel
Unfortunately, I don't have the video of how our actual interview went. I think that would've been very informative too.
https://twitter.com/AthensResearch/status/159113849137912217...
Basically, looks like they wasted a lot of time building collaborative knowledge graph features, and then realized no one really wanted them. By that point there were mature single-user alternatives and they were no longer competitive.
Now there are even more single-player tools, they are all still competing with each other, and implementing the same features, i.e. wrappers around GPT-3. Super happy with the bet we made :)
