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Day 2 · Interview 03 of 2210:39 AM · Moscone West

Aihui Ong & Michael Han

Co-Founder & CEO · Co-Founder & CTO, EasyMate.ai

AI that makes a creator's whole content library searchable and learns what the audience asks.

The full conversation

9:20 · every question and answer, tightened. Tap a line to jump to it.

The short version

3:27 · Aihui and Michael's answers, condensed.

Clips

5 short clips, captioned, in vertical and widescreen. Free to download and repost.

Once a builder, always a builder

“So I used to be a founder, became a VC, and decided to leave VC to build EasyMate with Mike. VC is great, you know, you are betting on the next generation of founders. But at the end of the day, once a builder, you're al…”

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Audience questions tell you what to create

“Customer intelligence, right? So you're engaging with your users, they're getting a lot of value from what content you create. The question is, you don't really know what's of interest to them. You understand what videos…”

0:36
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Six months of code in the bin

“You got to find that balance between conviction and be willing to admit you're wrong We wrote so much code so much product be like wait I just spent six months but that's okay because at the end of the day we find the ri…”

0:30
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Shamelessness is required

“It takes a lot of courage to approach strangers to do what you are doing and that is what shamelessness is a required ingredient for every founder yeah I mean even though I'm building my third company now but I'm still v…”

0:24
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$3M to $150M, with no VC funding

“I've worked a long time with enterprises, but previously I worked on a commercial enterprise software company scaling from $3 million to about $150 million when I exited. With no VC funding. We were fortunate to find pro…”

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At the booth

Team photos from the expo floor.

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