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🗓️ 1 January 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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0:00.0 | to be very frank, I wasn't a great developer. |
0:02.5 | I think a lot of people struggle with realizing what they're good at and what they're great at. |
0:07.3 | So I was good, but I wasn't great. I was never going to be a phenomenal developer. |
0:10.6 | But number two, I just really didn't like working at a big company. I had very low impact. |
0:15.1 | If I disappear the next day, nobody would know. |
0:20.8 | What business you end up building is never going to be your initial idea. |
0:24.3 | No one who takes a shower and a light bulb goes off and comes up with this great idea, |
0:29.0 | and then go build exactly that and millions of people come in and use it. |
0:32.6 | That's not how startups work. What works is... |
0:39.0 | You don't really know what you have, you're not making any money. |
0:41.2 | Your friends are looking at you like, what are you doing? |
0:45.1 | Now, I know this is a long story, but this is kind of really interesting. |
0:48.8 | So for the first six months to a year, we actually didn't have much traction at all. |
0:52.8 | So I would remember three. |
0:58.6 | My name is Christine. I am based in Toronto. |
1:01.8 | I currently run a company called Snap Travel. |
1:04.5 | And Snap Travel allows you to book a hotel room over Facebook Messenger and SMS. |
1:10.6 | So it's a conversational commerce experience. |
1:13.3 | There's been a lot of hype around bots recently. |
1:15.6 | Falls somewhat into that category. |
1:17.6 | So when you start chatting with Snap Travel, you can be chatting with a bot. |
1:21.0 | You can be chatting with a live human agent. |
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