Topic hub

Hiring & Team Building

30 founders · quotes verified against transcripts

Quotes and lessons on hiring & team building from 30 founders Charles Cormier interviewed on the Founder Wisdom, CEO Wisdom, and YC Wisdom podcasts.

Quotes across interviews

we plug into your systems and then we figure out who the target accounts are we figure out their their behaviors on our website and then we personalize help to personalize the Outreach

— Alan Zhao, Warmly · episode

startups they don't die they commit suicide and so if if you don't want to continue then that's how the syrup dies

— Alan Zhao, Warmly · episode

Basically we help construction companies, specifically general contractors, put together their on-site documentation more easily.

— Arvind Veluvali, Fresco · episode

We do that using generative AI and we've taken a lot of workflows that have been really annoying because they've traditionally only existed on the desktop and move them over to the phone

— Arvind Veluvali, Fresco · episode

Our vision is to be the first mobility, you know, Africa first Africa's first mobility unicorn. Um you know, powering about $10 billion transactions you know, by 2025.

— Ben Oladokun, Shekel Mobility · episode

We have We've built an operating system, right, that helps these dealers buy cars. So, they buy the cars, you know, they fund their wallet to 30%. We provide 70% and they buy the cars within our operating system.

— Ben Oladokun, Shekel Mobility · episode

Cod helps you write best quality code in production

— Chinmay Bharti, Cod · episode

I actually have an AI agent setup so I have five developers five AI developers coding for me

— Chinmay Bharti, Cod · episode

In a market that's defined by essentially what you know, that's more valuable than anything.

— Cole Dermott, Locus · episode

AIs are numerous but identical. Individual human taste is something built by lived experience that an AI can't replicate.

— Cole Dermott, Locus · episode

I learned to code when I was very small, like eight years old or something. I got a computer and a C++ book from my dad.

— David Kofoed Wind, Agentwork · episode

The premise of agent work is like what if instead of hiring a guy in India for example with chatbt through upwork what if you get an agent to try to solve the problem whatever it runs into problems it hires human help basically.

— David Kofoed Wind, Agentwork · episode

Elon preaches Tesla it's a great example of that and those are things that I've you know taken to my core

— Gonzalo Espinosa, Double · episode

whenever you know whether a robot delivered or food it was always very fast like 10 minutes 20 minutes

— Gonzalo Espinosa, Double · episode

Currently we are building a uh platform for product teams where they can do what we call guided coding.

— Ismail Pelaseyed, Superagent · episode

We use Devon internally. I think Devon produces around 70% of our own code.

— Ismail Pelaseyed, Superagent · episode

So last year me and Craig we sat together and thought how can we combine those two fields like AI and browser automation so that you can just tell your computer what it should do and actually does it for you and so we built small prototype push it to hacker news youth and it took off.

— Magnus Müller, browser-use · episode

It's actually a great filter hitchhiking because if you hitchhike, like only people who are up for the adventure or who are very friendly take you.

— Magnus Müller, browser-use · episode

Cluso is a company that I currently co-founded and work for full- time. We create product videos and documentation using AI.

— Prajwal Prakash, Clueso · episode

If you're going to spend your whole day, night, and whole soul on a business, it has to be something that can scale.

— Prajwal Prakash, Clueso · episode

Our vision is that like there will be a constellation of satellites that has this this product called a space-based interceptor on it.

— Sebastian Fischer, Wardstone · episode

If you need to shoot down one hypersonic missile, that's a significantly like smaller, simpler um constellation of satellites than if you need to defend against a larger number.

— Sebastian Fischer, Wardstone · episode

I've been coding since I was in high school I actually started building websites for like classic gaming Clans

— Sergio Prada, Metal · episode

I think there is a couple of little businesses like that in Latin America it's definitely a model that works but we were just not in a position to build the operations engine required

— Sergio Prada, Metal · episode

FAQ

Founders on this topic