• Ep 1.7 • From Big Tech @ Meta to Co-Founders | Interview with LastMile AI

  • Apr 2 2024
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Ep 1.7 • From Big Tech @ Meta to Co-Founders | Interview with LastMile AI

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  • In our first live recording in New York City, guests Andrew Hoh and Sarmad Qadri, co-founders of LastMile AI, share their experiences transitioning from working at Meta to launching their own AI developer platform. They discuss the importance of trust and communication, comparing the co-founder relationship to marriage, emphasizing accountability, mutual support, and the ability to navigate conflict. In our conversation, we discuss: • Difference between working for Meta and startup life• Addressing conflicts (lessons from marriage)• How to know if they’re the right co-founder• Finding value in different working styles• The all-encompassing nature of founding Favorite Quotes: 1. Differences between large corporation (Meta) and startup (LastMile): "It feels just a lot more emotionally tied to your identity in a way that I never felt in any other company or any other place that I've at least worked at."- Sarmad 2. In addressing conflicts, lessons from marriage: “When you're married, you think of how do we solve a problem? It's not like, ‘Sarmad let me down’. It's like, ‘No, we need to fix this’. We don’t point fingers... we're on the same team and we're gonna have to fix this.” - Andrew 3. In finding the right co-founder for you: “It's not finding someone you don't disagree with, but it's finding someone who makes you the best version of yourself that you can be.” - Sarmad"The way that we work together… I genuinely believe we can fix any issue.” - Andrew (Healthy Founding Relationship Principles) 4. Emotional stability is key! “You need to be an emotionally stable person. There's so much that [starting a company] throws at you, and being able to just be very rational and analytical and not lash out when things go wrong. All of that requires a degree of emotional stability and maturity that you have to come in with or learn it very quickly.” - Andrew 5. Finding value in different working styles — do you prefer bungee jumping versus hiking? Do you add a new ingredient to a focaccia recipe on a whim or not?: “I do think it's helped for me to partner with Andrew because we see things in slightly different ways. I can be a lot more aggressive at times and Andrew's like, ‘hold up let's take a step back’. I think the inverse is true to where I feel like I jumped off a cliff because I'd already made up my mind that I wanted to do this much sooner, but walking through those steps with Andrew, where it felt like we were going for a walk, was really important to our success.” (Working Styles Quiz) 6. Founding takes a tolls on others in your life as well: “Andrew once asked me how my wife is doing through all this. And I thought that was a very empathetic question. You can ask, ‘how are you doing’, but to ask how someone else is doing, that requires you to understand like the toll of building a company extends beyond just yourself as a founder.” (Life Priorities Exercise) 7. Do not allow frustrations to build up, share small and often: “We have a rule that we'll never have pent up anger or resentment. The rule is to bring it up early, because hate festers and you never want to leave a startup hating your co-founder.” Where to find LastMile AI: Website: https://lastmileai.dev/Twitter: https://twitter.com/LastMileDiscord: https://discord.com/invite/xBhNKTetGx Where to find Annie Garofalo, host & startup team relationship expert: Website: https://www.confidante.infoNewsletter: https://confidante.substack.com In this episode, we cover: 00:00 Highlights 00:54 Introduction 01:45 Meeting at Meta as Teammates 04:25 Leaving Meta to Found a Startup Together 06:43 When Your Startup Merges with Your Identity 07:30 "We can solve anything together" 08:52 "We knew we wanted to build a company together before we knew what we wanted to build" 10:10 Co-Founding is the Marriage of the Business World 11:12 Bungee Jumping or Hiking? 31:52 Advice for Teams 36:03 LastMile AI Ad
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