Here’s Our Plan And We Don’t Know — with Tristan Harris, Aza Raskin and Stephanie Lepp
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Center for Humane Technology
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🗓️ 3 February 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So I, at the age of 22 or 23 years old, |
| 0:04.2 | had started this company called Apsher, |
| 0:06.7 | a capture without the sea. |
| 0:08.1 | We raised venture capital, we did the startup thing, |
| 0:10.8 | we had employees, we were building a product |
| 0:12.9 | that made it easier for people to learn more about anything |
| 0:16.4 | without leaving the website that they were on. |
| 0:18.9 | And I had to come up with this whole narrative |
| 0:22.8 | to recruit people. |
| 0:24.1 | You have to say, we're going to change the world, |
| 0:25.8 | you have to have a purpose, so it's not just |
| 0:27.8 | going to make money, it's going to be |
| 0:29.5 | a positive, impactful, mission-aligned objective |
| 0:33.0 | in the world. |
| 0:34.3 | And our friend Joe Edelman started this thing called Doubt Club, |
| 0:37.8 | which gathered a group of startup founders together once a month |
| 0:40.6 | to express our doubts. |
| 0:42.6 | And one of the insights behind this thing called Doubt Club |
| 0:46.4 | was that as a technology founder, when you're building technology, |
| 0:49.6 | there's nowhere you can really go to express doubts |
| 0:54.0 | about the entirety of what you're doing. |
| 0:57.0 | There's certain things that you can tell your co-founders about, |
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