Makeupad started January 2019. In the September, I raised a small amount of funding and then in March 2021, we were acquired by Zapier. So Zapier is where I currently work. And I'm launching this new lecture. It's like a little side project that is just really fun for me. You've got to find something in the games momentum without you having to really force it. That just came quite naturally. People were signing up and I didn't have to promote it over and over and over again.
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!