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ποΈ 3 June 2023
β±οΈ 64 minutes
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Steph Smith (@stephsmithio) talks making millions in content subscriptions, working at a16z, putting the AI genie back in the bottle, thread boys on Twitter, educational vs entertainment podcasts, and media companies that monetize aspiring entrepreneurs with Courtland (@csallen) and Channing (@ChanningAllen).
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0:00.0 | Yo, what's going on, man? How you doing? |
0:08.0 | Dude, I'm so excited about the thing that I'm coding right now. Do you subscribe to, you subscribe |
0:13.9 | to every, right? Like the publication from Nathan Baches. Yeah, I subscribe to it. I love every piece |
0:19.2 | I read, but like I never actually make time to read the shit that comes in an inbox. |
0:22.8 | you stuff that I think is good. |
0:17.8 | Exactly. |
0:18.3 | The last one that I forwarded to you, remember that one? |
0:20.7 | It was about AI. |
0:21.4 | I was reading it and I was like, this is exactly my jam. |
0:24.2 | They were writing about how people are going to start using AI to classify, like, content from their users. |
0:30.2 | Like if we run like a blogging platform, you're going to run it to like on your users' blog post |
0:31.3 | to figure out if from their users. Like if you run like a blogging platform, you're going to run it to like on your user's blog post to figure out if they're any good. Or if you run a social media, like a social network, you're going to run it on like people's tweets or whatever to see if like their posts are any good. And so I have been like writing the same code for indie hackers. And I was scrolling down the article reading about it. I was like, okay, I can't wait to like read, you know, I hope they have some tips. And they're like, oh, I got this idea from this tweet. And I looked at the tweet. And it was my tweet. It was like my tweet where I was talking about using AI to classify spam on any hackers. So you thought you were going to, you thought you were going to like learn something from them and then ends up being that they learned from you. |
0:34.9 | Yeah, exactly. |
1:11.5 | But I ended up building the classifiers. That's what I've been working on like all, all day. Hey, what's up, Steph? Hi. Good to see you. Hello. And nice to meet you, Channing. I know we've exchanged emails, but Cortland. Nice to see you again as well. You guys have never met. No, not in real life. |
1:12.6 | I have this weird twin thing where I assume everybody that I've met, my brother has met. |
1:08.2 | That's not how it works. I feel like I've been like the behind the scenes newsletter website, content, personality, and you've been the on the mic dude for a minute. Yeah, but what's the, what's the update? Now you guys have a podcast together or you just brought Channing on now? I got bored of doing the podcast by myself. I was like, you know, it's not fun. Being on the hook to do a podcast for myself every time. I mean, you've got another podcast. I think it's like, shit, you don't learn in school. And you have like a co-host. And you have A16Z or I think you're constantly interviewing people, but like you're always on the hook, right? I know the feeling. |
1:11.9 | Yeah. |
2:01.4 | And it, yeah. |
2:01.9 | I don't know how it feels to you, but like having a co-host feels way easier and way better. |
2:02.6 | Like you're sharing responsibility. |
2:06.6 | It's like being a co-parent versus being a single parent. |
2:07.8 | No, I totally feel you. |
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