00:05:42 · S0, S1, S2, S3, S4
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00:06:49 · S4, S5, S6
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00:07:22 · Ella Zhang
[00:07:22] S7: Helpful for a lot of people. Sometimes, you know, it's it's pretty, pretty hard for people from the giant company to actually quit and really doing the start up. When I'm looking back, I really missed the time there at the company, enjoying with my friends and my family. Still, I think I don't regret, because I am doing what I really passionate about, and I believe that will help a lot of people. That is more important to me. When I saw the generative AI, even it's back in 2020, I believe that one is will change the world and it will be the future because at that time, I saw a lot of people, they spent over 80% of their time just online instead of offline. Right? So there is a huge trend that people actually are shifting from offline to online. And then people will definitely need much, much higher demand for the great content online. But on the opposite that I saw, it's pretty, pretty hard for people to create great content. Right? The requirement for great content actually growing higher and higher. The supply of the great content actually, have a huge gap between the supply and the demand. I'm pretty certain that, you know, it's only the technology which could, like, merge the gap and help people with that. That's a time that I think, okay, even though I am not experts, I don't know a lot about software or I don't know a lot about AI, but, you know, I can always learn. Once I find the motivation, I would know what I want to do and I can shift to that and I can learn that pretty quickly. To be honest, like our first product looks really rough. We don't have really fantastic UX or UI. We even don't have the batch mode in the beginning, but that's totally okay. You know, like, sometimes when the product is really rough but users still, you know, like, willing to use it, that means something. If you have really, like, bad design product that people are still using it, they're like, okay, there's some real value in that one. It's not just about fantastic UI, UX, or how you're marketing it. Right? It's more like what result users are get, whether they can use it to get the benefit they want. You don't need to wait for the product to be perfect to launch it because, you know, like most of the time in the AI era, like things will change every day. If you wait too long, you may never be able to launch your product.
00:09:55 · Ella Zhang
So you just need to launch it, develop it, learn from it at the same time. There's one lesson I learned as a founder, or I will say the most painful lesson I learned. Our first product actually is called zmo.ai. At the time I was building ZMO, I'm not sure why I'm building this, like why people need this. The thing is, the time, the journey is super hot. Everyone is chasing that, right? So just like so many other founders, I'm like, Okay, text to image is so popular. We definitely need to enter this domain, so let's do it. But I don't really know why people are generating those images. So I don't really understand the user's need when I was building the product. We actually don't know what the business model will be, and we even don't know what the next step will be. Right? So the revenue actually doesn't go that high as the users grow. Right? And we suddenly just get lost. Right? We don't know, like, why people are using it. Well, like, why some people pay, why some people don't pay for it. When we have this difficulty, the only thing I can think about is talking to your customers. Right? That is a thing I learned from Apple. We do email our users or most active users, email them like over 500. And finally, get 300. Actually, we have the face to face conversation with them because I believe talk to the user.
00:11:23 · S0, S1, S3
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00:12:18 · S3, S5
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