I was just building stuff, more for the fun of the process. I can build something and launch it in a weekend, in a day, in half an hour. One of my big ones was an Airbnb clone that really took off on Twitter. That's where I shifted my focus to. I can just teach people how to do this stuff. And that became Makeupad,. which I started in January 2019 as a side project that actually made money that time.
Ben Tossell writes Ben’s Bites, a daily newsletter on AI that’s read by over 15,000 others from Google, a16z, Sequoia, Amazon, Meta and more. He previously founded Makerpad, a no-code education side which was acquired by Zapier in March 2021. Important Links:
Show Notes:
- Ben’s journey into AI
- The importance of ease of use
- How AI will impact our lives
- Ben’s hackathon
- Balancing originality and usefulness
- Why Ben is wary of providing strategic advice
- Achieving ground-up change with AI
- Interaction between the AI industry and the governments
- How Ben wants AI to be used
- Following your curiosity
- Making the world more competitive
- MUCH more!