Inventing The Future Julian Alvarez

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

And in school, we were told what to learn but no one ever taught us how to learn effectively.

By combining today's unprecedented AI capabilities with the latest research in the science of how we learn most effectively, Julian Alvarez and David Glass are on a quest to invent the future of learning at Wisdolia.

In this special episode, Julian is interviewed by his co-founder, David, to get Julian’s perspective on the ups and downs of his startup journey, why he left his job at Meta to become a startup founder, what he is now building at Wisdolia, and his thoughts on the generative AI x Learning spaces.

Wisdolia is an AI learning co-pilot that creates an interactive & personalized learning experience from any learning material, with the goal of making it easier than ever to engage in active learning. They started with a Chrome extension for students that uses AI to generate question & answer flashcards from any YouTube video, article, or PDF.

Wisdolia is on a mission to transform anyone into a super learner who can retain and understand anything at least 10x better and faster 🚀

They launched 5 months ago and have over 50k downloads and 500+ paying subscribers after starting to monetize 2 months ago. Wisdolia is currently raising their pre-seed round and will be closing the round soon. Reach out to Julian if you’re interested in learning more.

Julian also gets vulnerable and shares the insane story of how he got suspended from his University for hiring freelancers to do his homework 😮

💬 Discussed in this episode...
1:24 Why did you start Inventing The Future?
4:24 What got you interested in startups?
10:35 The story of when Julian got suspended from college for cheating
21:55 Why did you leave Meta for the startup life?
25:18 The biggest mistakes on Julian’s startup journey
29:40 What is Wisdolia?
32:25 How we got our first 100 users
35:20 Which Gen AI startups will succeed?
40:40 The Crisis of Exponential Change
43:55 What has entrepreneurship taught you about life?

Follow Julian on Twitter: https://twitter.com/InfiniteJulian0

Connect with Julian on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianalv...
Check out Wisdolia at: https://wisdolia.com

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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

🎶 Music provided by Pablo Galbusera from http://auribus.io - handcrafted music for all media

🙋🏻‍♂️ YOUR HOST: Julian Alvarez is the Co-founder & CEO at Wisdolia. Become a super learner with Wisdolia: https://wisdolia.com

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

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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.

So, how do you get your first 10, 100, and 1,000 users? And how do you bring in a consistent stream of users so that you can constantly get feedback on new product changes with a different cohort of users?

In this episode, I spoke with Claudio Fuentes about how he and his startup, Leap, have gotten over 10k users in just over a month since launching. Leap recently went pretty viral after Elon Musk replied to a Tweet about Leap.
Claudio discusses the mindsets and strategies around how to build a growth engine for your startup and constantly seek out 10x growth opportunities.

Claudio is a 3x founder and currently the co-founder of Leap, an API that lets you integrate AI Image Generation into any app.



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

Connect with Claudio on LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudiofuen⁠

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

You usually only hear success stories of startups raising millions of dollars and getting millions of users but that is far from the common reality. More than 90% of startups fail.



So how do you deal with this tough reality? How do you communicate the news to investors and employees? And what mindset should you adopt moving forward so that you can get back on your feet?



In this episode, I spoke with Claudio Fuentes about shutting down his previous company, Noonshot. Claudio is a 3x founder and currently the co-founder of Leap, an API that lets you integrate AI Image Generation into any app.



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

Connect with Claudio on LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudiofuen⁠

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 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


How fast are things moving and what is causing them to move so fast?
How serious is the risk of job displacement? What jobs are likely to be displaced?
How concerned should we be? What can we do about it?
What will happen when AI is 100x, 1,000x, or a million times smarter than us? Will we be able to control AI?



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

Connect with Claudio on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudiofuen

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.



🦜 FOLLOW US on socials for small doses of podcast clips, startup wisdom, tech entrepreneurship stories, news, and more

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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


Culture — e.g. “my mom will kill me if I don’t go to college”
Society — e.g. “You’re working on something and it’s not doing anything?”
Security — You need money to pay the bills

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.

Follow Farza on Twitter
Check out Buildspace

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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
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🙋🏻‍♂️ 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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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 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

🙋🏻‍♂️ YOUR HOST: Julian Alvarez is the Co-founder & CEO at Mindflow. Learn more about me through my growth journeys on Mindflow (@infinitejulian)
🚀 OUR MISSION: Our mission is to introduce you to the ideas and entrepreneurs that will inspire and empower you to solve the world's biggest problems.
🌐 OUR WEBSITE: https://inventingthefuture.ai

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