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Zuhayeer is the founder of Levels.fyi, a platform that lets you compare salaries across big tech companies. This is the story of how he turned Levels.fyi from a side project into a million dollar startup.

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Links:
· Zuhayeer: https://twitter.com/zuhayeer
· Omar: https://twitter.com/omarwasm
· Levels.fyi: https://www.levels.fyi

Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:19 - Meeting his cofounder
8:41 - How they monetized
20:03 - Shifting from growth to company building
21:58 - Why they built a mobile app
27:29 - What's next marketing-wise
30:06 - Will Devin kill engineers?
37:44 - How to land a job in tech
40:56 - What's Levels.fyi built on
43:34 - Are you hiring?

Evan is the founder of The SF Compute Company, a cloud computing company that sells GPU clusters for AI models. This is the story of how he became one of the fastest growing AI companies in less than a year by betting the entire company every month.

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Links:
· Evan: https://twitter.com/evanjconrad
· Omar: https://twitter.com/omarwasm
· The SF Compute Company: https://twitter.com/sfcompute

Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:12 - Betting the company every month
7:59 - $1M in profit in 6 months
9:36 - Getting their first customers
14:33 - SF founders and politics
19:08 - Is SaaS dying?
29:20 - Managing time as a founder
31:44 - Joining YC because of exposure therapy (crazy)
35:32 - What to prioritize in a startup
41:20 - Mitigating risk

Aman is the founder of Deeptrust, an AI deepfake detection startup that's helping you trust what you see and hear on the Internet. We talked about OpenAI's new text to video model SORA , the terrifying success rate of AI fraud, and how to (theoretically) scam someone for $1M using AI.

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Links:
· Aman: https://twitter.com/amanmibra
· Omar: https://twitter.com/omarwasm
· Deeptrust: https://twitter.com/deeptrustAI

Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
4:26 - OpenAI SORA
12:09 - Fighting deepfakes
17:10 - Election fraud
18:34 - How Deeptrust helps
23:15 - AI scams to look out for
30:33 - How to scam $1M
35:56 - Managing priorities as a founder
37:34 - How to trust what you see

Prady is the founder of Sync Labs, an AI research company that’s building real time lip-syncing. This is the story of how he used viral Twitter marketing to build a deep tech research startup.

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Links:
· Prady: https://twitter.com/therealprady
· Omar: https://twitter.com/omarwasm
· Sync Labs: https://synclabs.so/

Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
3:04 - Going viral on Twitter
12:00 - YC, F.inc, and Buildspace
15:29 - How will AI impact communication?
19:20 - Will AGI replace us?
22:09 - AI lifehack as a founder
27:04 - Making content for your personal brand
30:02 - Synthetic humans are coming
33:11 - What’s the longterm plan?

Dylan is the founder of Evergreen, a crypto mining hardware company that he started out of his dad's garage. This is the story of exactly how he growth hacked his way to over $3.5 million in revenue.


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Links:
· Dylan: https://twitter.com/dylanmrose
· Omar: https://twitter.com/omarwasm
· Evergreen: https://evergreenminer.com/

Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
11:31 - How they went to market
17:33 - The hard thing about hardware
25:04 - Building the team
28:15 - Learnings from big tech
33:01 - Will we run out of energy?
38:27 - The future of consumer electronics
40:07 - How to get into crypto mining

Sharif is the founder of Lexica, a Midjourney killer that he grew to 1 million users with basically 0 zero employes. This is the story of how he went from couch surfing to building one of the most popular AI image generators.

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Links:
· Sharif: https://twitter.com/sharifshameem
· Omar: https://twitter.com/omarwasm
· Lexica: https://lexica.art/
· Founders, Inc.: https://f.inc

Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
7:38 - Pivoting from his last startup
19:53 - The future of AI content creation
25:08 - Why the team has 0 marketers
28:16 - Moving to SF (Furqan’s couch)
35:36 - How far is AGI?
46:07 - Will the Vision Pro replace our phones?