A New Search Engine to Compete With Google

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Zac hudson is building a new search engine to compete with that old one. Company was founded in 20 19, and their bata launched in december 20 20. They finished in second place during the launch accelerate 20, third class. And next up, another amazing investment i made in the past year or so,. This is called deft, and you can visit the company at shop deft.

First, Jason covers Square's corporate renaming to Block to reflect their broader ambitions (2:11), breaks down the genius of Spotify wrapped (13:15), and gives a nod to Grab's public debut (16:41). Then, Jason is joined by 3 founders who went through the Launch Accelerator, to extract the lessons from the early days of running a company. First is Paul Bloch of Fathom, an AI-enabled podcast search platform (23:03), then Zach Hudson of Deft, a E-commerce search engine (41:58) and finally Liam Gerada of Krepling, a no-code e-commerce platform (54:19).