Bad startup idea? (Ep. 5)

Day in the Life of an MIT Startup Founder. This is episode #5

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This is the fifth day of our startup trip to Miami. My friend and co-founder Emily Mu and I are staying at our third co-founder's apartment for a week to develop a working prototype of our startup. Our startup is a legal tech company making lawyers more productive using large language models (LLMs), such as GPT-4 and ChatGPT. We haven't raised any money yet and are actively talking to VCs and law firms.

In this episode, we finally submit our Delta v application, as we really want to move to NYC to work on a new startup. We have a few meetings with people who have been working in the industry for quite some time. Their optimism made me happy, as I had doubts about our startup idea.

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0:00 - Intro
0:35 - Morning workout
1:06 - Feeling pessimistic about the startup
2:05 - Meeting an industry veteran
3:08 - Front end and pool time
4:20 - Lunchtime
4:52 - Delta v application
6:35 - Google Bard AI vs. ChatGPT 4
7:20 - Is Emily doing any work?
7:36 - Dinner at Miami Beach
8:45 - Next meeting
9:15 - Emily still not working?
10:00 - Dinner at home and outro

[vujs]

I have just watched your ‘my life is a mess’ video and I just wanted to say that you are a really big inspiration to me and definitely many other people, not only does your ambition and kindness permeate through the video, but you also have a certain humility that is hard to come by. I sincerely thank you for making your videos and hope you have a great day :)

[felixbouffard]

Hey I'm from Montreal Canada and im studying computer science and finance and I really love your video man ! Keep up the good work

[adityagandhi]

Incredible video, keep posting these startup episodes

[hugofrisk]

I would be interested in more technical details on how you pitch to investors and what goes in to the delta v application. The pool and restaurant clips are entertaining but don't provide any ROI.

[bertoldandras]

Hey Samuel, love the series, really entertaining to watch your progress! I was wondering, why do you plan on exiting the startup and not growing the company yourself once it takes off?

[UberBossPure]

Can you make a video about your other/ first start up? What happened with that?

[paawanjotkaur]

Hey can i please ask how did you reach here, ie. What did you do at undergrad and masters?

[Wllbam]

It's so entertaining that it could be a netflix series. In the video you mentioned law firms being old-school and inefficient for monetary purposes, perhaps it is like when spotify first came out and had to deal with the old-school record label companies. There is also a great netflix show about that :D

[dd]

Hi Samuel! what similar resources to AoPS would you suggest for learning physics more in depth?

[erinxhsu]

tell Emily *I* believe that she’s working 💅🏼💅🏼

[ivanferraz]

You made me believe that the impossible is in many cases correctley speaking: unlikely, but as I like to challenge myself to reach the top quantiles I always push myself hard to achieve those unlikely probabilities that we put in our minds. So this year I'll travel to US to my Doctorate Sandwich at UC Berkeley :)

[nowspacetime]

Why didn't you adopted a career in academics and instead chose a startup?

[johnczech]

Great video! I always enjoy your content. But do yourself a favor! Stay away from lawyers! Believe me this is a lesson I learned a long time ago!

[dac]

My advice. Skip startup and put all that money in bitcoin now while its low before it blows up. 95.8% of start ups fail. Bitcoin sure road to riches