Inventing The Future

The human brain is one of the most complex objects in the known universe. But it didn't come with an instruction manual.

You've build something incredible but now you have to figure out how the hell you're going to find the first people that are going to use your product.

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🎙️ This podcast was recorded in a studio provided by Founder's Inc in San Francisco. F.inc is a community of relentless founders building epic companies: ⁠https://f.inc⁠

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🙋🏻‍♂️ YOUR HOST: Julian Alvarez is the Co-founder & CEO at Wisdolia. Wisdolia is a Chrome extension that uses AI to generate flashcards for any PDF / article so that you can better ingrain what you are learning. Check it out at: ⁠https://wisdolia.com⁠

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Shutting down your company is perhaps one of the most difficult experiences that almost every founder has to go through at least once.

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🎙️ This podcast was recorded in a studio provided by Founder's Inc in San Francisco. F.inc is a community of relentless founders building epic companies: ⁠https://f.inc⁠

▶️ You can see the video recording of this episode on our YouTube channel: ⁠https://youtube.com/@inventing.the.future⁠

🎶 Music provided by Pablo Galbusera from ⁠Auribus.io⁠ - handcrafted music for all media

🙋🏻‍♂️ YOUR HOST: Julian Alvarez is the Co-founder & CEO at Wisdolia. Wisdolia is a Chrome extension that uses AI to generate flashcards for any PDF / article so that you can better ingrain what you are learning. Check it out at: ⁠https://wisdolia.com⁠

🚀 OUR MISSION: Our mission is to introduce you to the ideas and founders that will inspire and empower you to solve the world's biggest problems.

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We live in a world where the only constant is change. And the rate of change itself is accelerating. Things are moving really fast in this increasingly exponential world.

With the exponential boom in AI, machines are becoming faster and more intelligent than ever. These advances in AI will bring an unprecedented world of abundance but AI is also likely to cause massive disruption. As AI continues to get smarter and more capable, it will continue to replace many of today’s jobs.

This brings a lot of interesting questions that we explore in this conversation

I explore this topic with Claudio Fuentes, the co-founder of Leap (tryleap.ai). Leap is an API service that allows any developer to generate AI images and fine tune AI models in minutes. Claudio is a third time founder working at the cutting edge of AI. He and I both work our of an incubator named Founder’s Inc.

This is an intentionally dystopian analysis at the impact that AI can have on us. I am generally optimistic about tech and the future but I think it’s important to understand the risks so that we can proactively take the safety measures needed to make sure we don’t create something that could put human existence at risk.

Follow Claudio on Twitter: https://twitter.com/claud_fuen

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Check out Leap at: https://tryleap.ai

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🎙️ This podcast was recorded in a studio provided by Founder's Inc in San Francisco. F.inc is a community of relentless founders building epic companies: https://f.inc

▶️ You can see the video recording of this episode on our YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@inventing.the.future

🎶 Music provided by Pablo Galbusera from Auribus.io - handcrafted music for all media

🙋🏻‍♂️ YOUR HOST: Julian Alvarez is the Co-founder & CEO at Wisdolia. Wisdolia is a Chrome extension that uses AI to generate flashcards for any PDF / article so that you can better ingrain what you are learning. Check it out at: https://wisdolia.com

🚀 OUR MISSION: Our mission is to introduce you to the ideas and founders that will inspire and empower you to solve the world's biggest problems.

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We all start off with these wild dreams as kids — dreams of who we want to become, what we want to create, and what we want to achieve….. and some of us keep having those dreams.

But for most of us, something happens and we end up not taking the path of fulfilling our dreams. Something gets in the way and instead we end up taking a very traditional path: get a degree, get a job, then keep climbing the career ladder.

The traditional path makes sense because of

For some people, the traditional path works and they love it. But for others, they go down the traditional path and they’re left wishing they went down another path.

Enter Farza Majeed, my guest today, and his company, Buildspace. Farza created Buildspace to give an alternate path to the dreamers. They are building the Hogwarts for builders and dreamers. In other words, Buildspace is a school for people that don’t want to just “get a job”.

Buildspace is a place where you can figure out what you’re passionate about, create something you love working on, and then learn how to turn that creation into a financially sustainable path you can pursue full-time. The end goal? people working full-time on their creations sustainably — that means teaching you to figure out how to make money, raise money, get government grants, whatever needed.

The basic way Buildspace works is that they have a collection of “Builds”, which is a sort of guided course / project within a specific domain, such as Web 3 or AI. For example, they have a build on how to use GPT-3 and build a simple website that uses GPT-3.

Buildspace was started in 2019 and they have pivoted 10 times. Now they’ve become extremely prolific —  over 125,000 people have built something using Buildpsace, 1000s have attended IRL events, and some have started multi-million $ agencies, found co-founders, and even gotten funded for their own startups.

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What if we created a world where we use our own data to augment our thinking, extend our memory, to automate our chores, and to track and improve important things in our lives?

This is the vision of what a utopian future of responsible data usage looks like from the perspective of Michael Jelly, today’s guest.

This vision is in stark contrast to the way the world works today, where data about us is predominantly used to manipulate our behavior for the benefit of third-parties.

This utopia is the premise on which Michael’s company, Magicflow, is centered on. Magicflow is a productivity tracker that helps you focus, get into deep flow work sessions, and identify the things that are obstructing your flow. Today, Magicflow is a productivity app but Michael has a much broader vision of how data can be used to enable us to live healthier, more productive, and fulfilling lives.

Apart from being a brilliant founder, Michael is an incredibly curious and deep thinker, which is why this conversation naturally ran on to be close to 2 hours long. It’s a big time commitment but once you experience a bit of Michael’s mind, you’ll find yourself hooked in the flow of the conversation.

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🌱 This podcast is sponsored by Mindflow, a personal growth focused social app. Embark on growth journeys that make it fun and easy to take action, become 1% better every day, and share the things that are meaningful to you. Share your growth journey with friends and support them along their journeys, on a social platform that is authentic, raw, vulnerable, and doesn’t have likes or put you in comparison mode. Check out Mindflow on the App Store.

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🎙️ This podcast was recorded in a studio provided by Founder's Inc in San Francisco. F.inc is a community of relentless founders building epic companies: https://f.inc

🙋🏻‍♂️ YOUR HOST: Julian Alvarez is the Co-founder & CEO at Mindflow. Learn more about me through my growth journeys on Mindflow (@infinitejulian)

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“If you design your life to where you love it, you never need to escape it” — This is the core life philosophy of Alex Schachne, today’s guest.

Alex is a former college basketball players and a 2nd time founder.

Alex now claims that his life’s “path is” to help people find theirs — to inspire people to do the things that inspire them.

Check out Paths at: https://paths.audio

🌱 This podcast is sponsored by Mindflow, a personal growth focused social app. Embark on growth journeys that make it fun and easy to take action, become 1% better every day, and share the things that are meaningful to you. Share your growth journey with friends and support them along their journeys, on a social platform that is authentic, raw, vulnerable, and doesn’t have likes or put you in comparison mode. Check out Mindflow on the App Store: https://apple.co/3BY7Nry

🎙️ This podcast was recorded in a studio provided by Founder's Inc in San Francisco. F.inc is a community of relentless founders building epic companies: https://f.inc

🙋🏻‍♂️ YOUR HOST: Julian Alvarez is the Co-founder & CEO at Mindflow. Learn more about me through my growth journeys on Mindflow (@infinitejulian) https://apple.co/3BY7Nry

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“I’m more worried about other startups than AWS or Google” — Eric Jung

After testing over 12 ideas and founding 3 companies, Eric Jung is currently focused on building Unreal Speech, a Text-to-Speech software service that he claims is better and 8x cheaper than AWS. The text-to speech uses an ultra realistic AI narrator that is trained to sound audiobook-esque. The software can for example read any piece of text in the voice of Jordan Peterson or Gary Vee.

Eric is a South Korean founder living in San Francisco, and he became inspired to work on tools to help people consume information after learning to speak English by watching YouTube videos in English with closed captions in Korean.

Eric recently launched on Product Hunt, earning the #3 spot for the day and also raised $300K from the founders of Readwise, Shaan Puri, and Furqan Rydham.

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🎙️ This podcast was recorded in a studio provided by Founder's Inc in San Francisco. F.inc is a community of relentless founders building epic companies: https://f.inc. 

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🙋🏻‍♂️ YOUR HOST: Julian Alvarez is the Co-founder & CEO at Mindflow, a social app centered on personal growth that makes the journey of becoming 1% better every day fun and easy. Check out Mindflow on the App Store and grow alongside your friends: https://apple.co/3QFdPlE 

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What would you do if you dropped out of college, pursued 12 different ideas but none of them worked, and only had $0.50 cents in your bank account at one point?

Would you give up or persevere?

Today’s guest, Arnav Bathla, decided to keep charging forward because he believes he was born to be an entrepreneur and he couldn’t possibly see any other option.

Arnav is originally from India and after dropping out of college and booking a one-way ticket to San Francisco over 2 years ago, he played around with different ideas and almost none of them solved a ‘pressing’ problem.

He went from one idea to the next until, at some point in his journey, he had less than a dollar in his bank account. But still, he never gave up.

Now Arnav is the founder & CEO at Coinbooks, a Web3 startup building an accounting software designed for crypto-native organizations. Arnav has raised $3.2 million from world-class investors like Multicoin Capital, and even Polygon’s MATIC very own founders. Coinbooks was also accepted into Y Combinator for the summer 2022 batch.

Are you a web 3 company interested in having your accounting and taxes easily handled? Check you Coinbooks out today: https://www.coinbooks.xyz

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"The only way you can get an insight that no one else knows is by talking to customers. If you Google it, that means everyone else knows it." — Arnav Bathla

Visit inventingthefuture.ai for the full show notes, which includes a full transcription of the conversation, a link to the YouTube Video interview, the top 3 value bombs, people & resources mentioned, and more!

This podcast is hosted by Julian Alvarez, the Co-Founder & CTO at Vize and a Software Engineer at Facebook.

After a 7 month hiatus, the ITF podcast is back!! 🚀

In this special comeback episode, Julian interviews his co-founder at Mindflow, David Glass.

Julian and David quit their jobs (Meta & Cisco respectively) in April (4 months ago) to take the full plunge into the entrepreneurial journey and so far, it has been an incredibly rewarding journey filled with tons of challenges, lessons, and joy.

In this episode, we cover things such as…

“Comfort isn’t exactly what I’m optimizing for” — David Glass, when asked why he quit his job to take the full leap into entrepreneurship.

A study that polled over 1,000 people who invested in personal development seminars/courses, set goals, and worked on those goals for 90 day found that 96% of their efforts completely failed. (Business Insider, 2017)

Another study by the University of Scranton found that 92% of goals set by people during the New Year are never achieved. (Inc. Magazine, 2016)

Needless to say, CHANGE IS HARD ❗

Many growth-driven people have the motivation and desire to be better and integrate the habits that are important to them, but often fail to execute on this motivation because…

The way Mindflow works is that you will get 4 quests every day of small positive actions to take across different categories:

🏃‍♂️ Wellness — get you moving or in touch with your body (ex: go for a run or meditate)

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Visit inventingthefuture.ai for the full show notes, which includes a full transcription of the conversation, a link to the YouTube Video interview, people & resources mentioned, and more!

This podcast is hosted by Julian Alvarez, the Co-Founder & CEO at Mindflow. This podcast was recorded in the Founder's Inc (f.inc) studio. F.inc is a community of founders that are building epic companies, check them out!