How do you go from selling lizards online to raising $15M for a debit card that builds credit?

Scott dropped out of Cornell at 21 and moved to Germany on a whim to build an AI knowledge base for companies, similar to what Dust, Vectara, and many others do today. This was back in 2020.

He and his co-founders applied to YC and were rejected. The second time they applied, the partners asked what they’d pivot to when they got in. A few months into the batch, they realized they wanted to build something they’d use themselves, and along came Fizz

Scott shares:

• What a “f**k yes” approach to hiring means
• How to organically grow a waitlist to 50,000 people
• Why consumer companies have “lost the plot”

Tune in now.