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Matt: All right, we're recording.

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I wanna show you this though.

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Okay.

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Now that I'm on your
wifi, I found something.

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Greg: I guarantee I
already know what it is

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Matt: is for everyone watching or
listening or whatever, like, I'm with Greg

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Koberger, founder ceo readme.com,  pretty
stoked that you guys got that domain name.

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And we're in the Read Me Office.

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Greg: Yes, we are.

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Matt: Readme HQ

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Greg: Yeah.

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One of two.

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One of two offices.

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Matt: You have two offices?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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I'm trying to find this video.

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I'm gonna just play this here.

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Have you seen this since?

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No.

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I watched this the other day.

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So what this is, is this is the
video of us attempting to get into

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Y Combinator for DocHub, which
eventually is now, I guess read me.

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I'm just gonna play it.

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Greg: I I, Zuckerberg, Matt, I used
the Winklevoss in the situation.

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Matt: Yeah.

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I don't have a twin though.

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Greg: Oh, I was so young.

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Matt: Yeah,

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we were much

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Greg: full of

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hope.

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Matt: at me.

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I even dressed up.

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Greg: you look like your son.

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Matt: So cringe

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It's still true, I think.

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Greg: yeah, probably more than that.

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Matt: and we make

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Greg: You have a lot of
friends you had to brag.

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We have a lot of friends.

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Matt: Yeah, I'm pretty sure I was

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Greg: Wow.

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We nailed that.

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Oh no,

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Matt: you were like, well, that was good.

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Yeah.

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Well that wasn't our first take.

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Greg: That was probably our 48th take.

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Matt: Yeah.

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I don't know.

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We, we did a few of them and we kept
messing up , it was also during RIT48.

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Greg: That makes sense.

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so you were living, where were
you living at that point then?

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Matt: I was still in college.

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right, I, I remember the first, when
you called me, I was in the car.

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I was, it was nighttime.

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I don't know where I was driving from.

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Yeah.

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but I had just gotten like a car phone
thing, like a, you could like Bluetooth

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in the car and I was like, this is sick.

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And you called me and was like, oh,
sweet, I can hit the button and answer it.

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And then you were like, Hey,
I got this idea, like, do you

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wanna do this thing with me?

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And I was like, what

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Greg: I, so I got into
YC eventually, obviously.

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But no, obviously, sorry.

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I got into

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Matt: Wow.

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Burn,

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Greg: obviously once I ditched Matt.

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Not, I got into YC eventually, but
like, that was one of the worst days

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of my life was when we were waiting.

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So we, we got, like, we signed up for,
we got an interview Matt and I did, and

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we it was like 8:00 AM the interview
was, and it was like 10 minutes long.

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And like they don't tell each that night.

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So like, we just

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like,

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that was the worst day of my life.

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We were just like nervous the entire day.

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That was

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Matt: I think, I think episode
two or three, we talked about

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this, but, but no, you're right.

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And like we tried , so the way it
works, and I mentioned this before,

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if you get an email, it's bad if
you get a phone call, it's good.

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And.

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It's the waiting period.

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That's actually the worst.

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Yeah.

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And we were like, what do we do?

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How do we kill this time?

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Like we tried going on roller coasters.

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The park was closed.

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We tried to get massages.

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They were booked up.

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Greg: No, we got massage.

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Matt: What

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Greg: that?

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No.

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Yeah.

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So the massage was booked up.

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You're right.

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But then you found this weird

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Matt: the foot massage place.

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Yeah.

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Greg: it was so weird.

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It was like, just like, it was just people
sitting in chairs next to each other.

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It was like a leg massage place.

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Matt: ever seen like, like rush hour.

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was, it's like that

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Greg: I hate massages, but
like, it was something to do

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and I couldn't be on my phone.

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So that was a good

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Matt: Oh, I got your mind off of

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Greg: Yeah, exactly.

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So when I did get in same thing happened.

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And I went to a bar right away.

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I went to Molly McGee's

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Matt: we eventually went,
didn't, isn't that where we went?

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Greg: so.

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Probably that's where I, that's
where I go to get good or bad news.

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And like I, when I found out, so they
called me in the bathroom and like, cuz

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I was, I was in the bathroom and they
called and I was like, in my mind I

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was like, oh my God, if I don't pick up
now they're gonna like not call back.

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Like I knew what it was.

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So I like picked it up in
the bathroom, which is weird.

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So I picked up in the bathroom
and like my nose started to bleed.

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That's how fucking stressful it was.

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So I didn't mean to swear,
but I was, my nose started to

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bleed like in the bathroom.

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I've never had that
happen before or after.

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My nose just started to like gush blood.

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I was so stressed out like that time.

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Matt: So apply to yc.

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It'll make your node bleed

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Greg: Yeah.

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Stuff

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Matt: Is that

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Greg: So then I don't
think you know the story.

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So the next day I'm out to
dinner to kinda celebrate.

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Cause we gotten in and like Matt
said, they call, if you get in, they

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email you a rejection if you know.

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And like the nice thing always is they
actually give you a really good rejection.

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Like they don't just say like, it's not
automated one, like it's a real person

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who messaged you and is like really
like empathetic and nice about it.

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So I got a phone call
when I actually got in.

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So I went to dinner the next night to
like, celebrate and I get a phone call

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and I know what the number is cause
it's the same numbers the day before.

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So I pick it up and it's Michael
Sebel and he's like, Hey, is

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this Greg Berger from Read Me?

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I was like, yeah.

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And he's like

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Matt: made a mistake.

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Greg: like, I'm so, yeah, he did.

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He's like, he said, I'm so sorry,
this has never happened before.

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We made a mistake and I
just really wanna apologize.

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And I'm like, oh no,

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Matt: this is an April Fools?

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Greg: So he's like, he's going, he's
like, this has never happened before.

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We have new software.

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Like this is, we've never
made this mistake before.

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I'm so incredibly sorry.

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And I'm like, oh, okay.

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And then he goes, oh,
congratulations, you're in YC.

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And I'm like, I know.

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And he's like, what do you mean?

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You know?

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And I was like, you guys
called me last night.

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He's like, oh, thank God.

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So he was apologizing cause he
thought he didn't call us back.

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So he was apologizing because he
thought he just never got back

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to us when he had gotten in.

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But like their new system, he hadn't
marked down that he had called us.

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And I'm thinking, cause I
remember obviously I remember

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that he called us, let us in.

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I'm thinking he's calling
to like revoke it,

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Matt: Oh,

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Greg: So we, like, he was apologizing
cuz he was like, if I, if I, if if it

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was true that he had not call me, then
the apology would've been like, yeah, I'm

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so sorry we like didn't get back to you.

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But he didn't say that explicitly.

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He was just like, I'm so sorry,
this has never happened before.

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Matt: Has YC revoked acceptances?

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Greg: I dunno.

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I doubt it.

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Like it's just for like, I just, that's
what was going through my head is

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like, why it's

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like so little money for
them for like the bad like

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press.

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even.

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So like, yeah, I don't
think they ever have.

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But I don't know, like
maybe something's changed.

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Maybe, or like, maybe like things changed.

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I don't know.

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Like, I'm sure there's situations
where they would, but it

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would've to be pretty high bar.

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I think it

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would've to be like,

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it wouldn't just be like,
oh, we've changed our mind.

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It would have to be like, like,
oh, we found out this really bad

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thing about this person type thing.

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Cause they've only like kicked
like three or four people out ever.

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And like every single one deserved it.

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Yeah.

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But

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Matt: Well they do that in colleges
if you lie on your application.

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Greg: yeah, I could see

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'em like that maybe.

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But like, even then

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they don't research you.

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So how would they even know that?

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Like, you'd have to
like very blatantly lie.

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Because like, they don't,

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like, it's just 10 minutes you

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get in and they just move

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on and like, yeah.

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I don't know.

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So I don't think

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so,

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Matt: but yeah, I don't really know.

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Greg: I, I actually know, I'm pretty
sure they would because they're

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really big on not pulling term sheets.

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And like, that's one of the biggest
things that they, like, one of the big

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reasons to do YC is because they get
really mad if a VC pulls a term sheet.

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Matt: Oh.

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Greg: and like one of the nice
things about being NYC is like, kinda

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like a weird, like, you know not.

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Entrepreneurs in a union, but it's kinda
like, like a weird like union type thing

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where it's like no one will pull a term
sheet on, for the most part, won't pull

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term sheet on YC company because like
you don't wanna get NYC's bad side.

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So either, either a union or a mafia,
depending on how you wanna look at it.

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But

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one of the two.

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Matt: for, so for those who, of
the listeners that don't know or

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aren't like entrepreneurs are in the
startup world, what's a term sheet?

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Greg: Oh yeah.

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Term sheet is so when you.

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Go to raise money you'll pitch the
company with like, what, however

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you end, do you pitch the vc.

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And like, it's usually one
or two or three meetings.

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And usually they, it's like a partner
or an associate, and then they like

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layer on more and more people and you're
kind of repitching and repitching.

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And finally, like every VC firm has a
different way of doing it, but every VC

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firm gives your term shit at the end.

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And basically it's a

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agreement that kind of covers everything.

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So it's basically the contract
that you would sign in order

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to accept money from them.

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So a term sheet will have
like terms obviously.

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So it'll talk about the how
much equity they're getting.

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So like a lot of weird
rules, I just make sure.

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So a clean term sheet is basically
just, we'll give you X dollars

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for why a number of shares.

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And it's called a clean term sheet,
which means there's not a lot of

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like stuff now there's like less
clean term sheets, which, you know,

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they can make any rules they want.

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So like, there's things like liquidation
preferences that can go into it.

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Liquidation preferences like VCs get to
take out, you know, before anyone else

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gets money, they get to take out like
two x and what eventually happened is

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you sell your company or your IPO and you
have to like start turning, converting

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all the equity and these like, you
know, promises into like real money.

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You have to start doing the math.

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So it's like, okay, so this term she
gets presence over this one cause

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it came first, or this one came
second, or it overrides this one.

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And like, or like, you know,
then you have employee contracts

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and employees at equity as well.

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And that's not term she,
but they have like equity.

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So like that all kind of goes together
and like, this is gigantic math problem

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where you kind of figure out like,
okay, cuz it's not just like, like you

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think like, okay, like I own 5% of the
company, you own 5% of the company.

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We both get the same thing,
but that's not really true.

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Cause if you have a liquidation
preference, which if you have leverage,

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you can get a liquidation preference.

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It means like, let's
say we sell the company.

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you

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know, X number of dollars and you
have a certain amount that you

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serve, like you can get money out.

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So there's a lot of times where like
employers or founders should get $0

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because the VCs have enough liquidation
preferences, stuff like that.

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So anyway, that's what term sheet is.

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We've been really lucky that I've
never gotten a bad term sheet.

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Like it's always been pretty good.

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But the problem with a pulled term sheet,
pulled term sheet just means like the,

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the VCs like, nevermind, just kidding.

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Before you sign it, is that, I mean,
people have been doing a lot of term

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sheets when, like the past few years when
like covid happened and then recently,

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like as the recession started to happen
more and more people have been pulling

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term sheets and seen as very like Not
a good business practice, obviously.

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Like it's very like, you know,
it's, it's like it's also like

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pulling a contract for if you like,
you know, an employment contract.

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Like, you know, you sign a contract
and it's like, just kidding.

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It just seems like really
bad you know, bad business.

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But unless of course, like you said, if
it's like, like true fraud, then like

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no one's gonna be mad if you see firm
necessarily for pulling a term sheet.

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But a lot of people are just doing it
cuz like, you know, the market changes

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a little bit, but the problem is like,
if you pull a term sheet, it's like,

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people are like, so like if you, if you
sign a term sheet, then all of a sudden

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it's like you turn down your other VCs
that have offered you money and you're

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like, okay, I'm gonna commit to this one.

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And then there's always a
little bit of diligence after

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the term sheet, by the way.

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But you know, there shouldn't
be any lying or anything.

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So like, by that point the diligence
should be purely diligence.

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Not you know, anything,
anything significant, but.

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It means like you're already planning
on the money, you've turned on other

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VCs and you're planning on the money
and like you start like hiring or

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making decisions based on the money.

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So like pulling a term sheet's pretty
bad because like all of a sudden you

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have to tell, then it trickles down.

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They have to tell your employees
like, oh, just kidding.

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I literally can't afford you
because the term sheet didn't

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go through and stuff like that.

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So anyway, that's you asked me
right before this and I was like,

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what's it like to run a company?

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I was like, I'd probably work like,
just raw, like less, I like write

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less code or like, you know, spend
less time sending email, stuff

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like that than like previous jobs.

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But like, that's the like two A, not
that specifically, but stuff like, that's

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like the two A am panic attacks that
that replace the the raw output of work.

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So, so, yeah.

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Matt: Yeah.

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Wow.

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So what else?

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Well,

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Greg: It's like therapy.

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Do you, do you take my
insurance or is our copay

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Matt: Yeah.

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Where's the, the, chaise lounge
the lay down and tell me what does

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that, what does that actually mean?

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No, . So what else is new?

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What's, what's new with Readme?

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What's for those who don't know?

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README is sort of alluded to in the, the
doc hub video for yc, but why don't you

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explain what README is and what's new.

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Greg: Yeah, so we do API documentation,
so APIs I think most people know APIs

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who are listening this podcast, but
API is a basically central application

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programming interface, but it's how
different companies or products connect.

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So if you ever go to a website, you
see like data from a different company.

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So like you you know, go to a hotel
website and you get a hotel and then at

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the end it's like, would you like to get
a car as well from this different company?

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Like there's an API powering that.

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It's a way like shared data.

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It's a way to like, if you ever get a
text message, they're probably using

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Twilio's, APIs, stuff like that.

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So most companies at this point are
built on a bunch of cobbled together

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APIs that do like discreet business
functions or data or whatever else.

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And we do is we build the documentation
for the developers, have to implement it.

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So like as of now, it takes a
developer to implement stuff and

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to make it, make it all happen.

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And what we do is we make it easy
for developers to learn how to use

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an API because each API is like
different, like parameters you send

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in and values and stuff like that.

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I'm kinda trying to oscillate
between like using the technical

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terms and also you know, more more
noob terms to fit the podcast.

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But what we do is

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the API ation.

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There's numerous kinds of APIs.

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There's like public APIs, there's private
APIs, like internal microservices.

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But the entire, you know, most of
infrastructure when it comes to to

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to software.

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there's just tons of APIs, whether
it's like public API that you pay for,

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free public api, private internal ones.

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Anytime an iPhone app talks to
a server someplace, like it goes

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over an api things like that.

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So that's what re does
what is new with us.

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Let's see.

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I'm trying to think of like, features
you'd care about or anything like that.

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Went to get Universe today, you saw that.

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That was nice.

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We got spent a lot of money for a half
hour booth, but it was really good.

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We gotta talked to a bunch of people.

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One thing I've loved about reading was
like, been doing this for six or seven

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years at this point, seven or eight years.

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It's been a while.

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And pre covid.

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So it was like, what, four years ago?

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People like knew us and liked us enough.

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And like I'll go to conferences.

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Like people would kind of be like, oh,
I don't read me, or something like that.

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And then like, didn't do anything for
two and a half years cause of Covid.

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And like now when I go to
events, like people like no

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read me and like, super excited.

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And it's so cool.

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Like, like, like prior to Covid, people
are like, eh, yeah, I've heard of Readme.

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Or like, is that that thing?

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And it's like, eh, yeah, sure.

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But now it's like people, like
we have customers everywhere.

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People use us, people like
us, like it's really cool.

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So I've been really liking this
like post covid going to events

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thing cuz cause people people
know Readme now, so it's nice.

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Matt: It's really validating, huh?

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Greg: Yeah, it's I mean,
that's not why I do it.

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I don't really care if
people know read me.

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But it is, I mean, so when we did, so back
when we like first started talking about

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this, like when I, I did raise money, so
we got into yc and YC gives you $120,000,

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which seems like a lot of money now.

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It's like 600, but like
back then it was $120,000.

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And that seems like a lot of money, but
like, that's not a lot of money at all.

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So you have to go raise money and
like we raised 1.2 million, which

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also seems like a ton of money.

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I was like, it's 1.2 million.

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It's more than I could ever used ever.

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But it's really that, you know,
that goes away pretty quickly.

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But you need to raise money.

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And so like when I first
was pitching people, every

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single conversation was like,

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they're like,

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okay, what's an api?

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So like, you spend the first, you like a
half hour or an hour or whatever it is.

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And like I spent a lot of time not
talking about README and why README

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is cool or what was exciting about,
but like, just trying to explain

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to VCs like what an API even was.

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And like, and, and they're like,
because like to them, like, so VCs are,

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are fascinating cuz they're, they're,
they tend to be very curious people.

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Cuz if you just care about just
like money and numbers, like you

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go into hedge fund or you're into a
growth fund or something like that.

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Like you're not doing like seed stage
VCs, like the seed stage VCs are really

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fascinating because they are really
interested, like they do love learning.

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It's one of those things where like,
yeah, sure, anyone now knows that like,

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Figma is gonna be worth, you know, a
trillion dollars, whatever, but like,

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or not anymore I guess cause they sold.

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But like, you know, when you first get
like the first person like saw Figma

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and like, you know, they're like, we're
gonna do Photoshop for in the pros.

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Well, that's never gonna work
because like, it's too gonna

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be too slow, too clunky.

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Like, why didn't anyone want it?

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Like they spend all their time in it.

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Like they're, you know, very
happy to like, download an app.

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You have to fight against
Adobe, which is gigantic.

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Like, it makes, you know, it's so
that you can't be a good seed investor

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without being like super curious.

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And I mean, you can, but like for
the most part you really can't.

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You have to like, you know, be open
to new ideas because you're taking

00:14:29.207 --> 00:14:30.557
chances on things that aren't proven.

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And like there's some seed investors
who are like, you're like, I'm like

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this, but you get to invest in it.

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And like, that's also a decent strategy.

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It's like, you know, I'm like, we just
went to GitHub, which I'm thinking this

00:14:39.723 --> 00:14:43.498
like, it's like, I'm like GitHub, but, you
know, five years later, which means that

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you can invest in it at a cheap price.

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And they're like, okay, GitHub's big.

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Like I get that.

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Like I'll invest in it.

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But for the most part,
like, they're very curious.

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But I said most of the time like just
explaining like why APIs were important.

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So you get to the end and you'd
be like, you wanna invest?

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And like, oh, we did really well.

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Like a lot of people did invest,
but a lot of times they're like, you

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know, you didn't get to the point
where you're explaining why re's cool.

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They're just like, oh cool.

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APIs are cool.

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I like that idea.

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Like APIs and like, you're like, but
I didn't tell you about my company.

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But the second time, like we, we
raised when we did a series A I'm

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not big on raising money, so we
raised money very, very infrequently.

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Like when we not necessarily need
it, but when we like want it.

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So when we raised like a
Series A, it was so weird cause

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everything had completely changed.

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Like in 2019, we raised a series A and
like everyone knew exactly what API I was.

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And like, it wasn't like, I didn't once
have to, cause I kind of went in and

00:15:23.172 --> 00:15:25.397
being like, oh, I know what this is like,
and I was ready to talk about like what

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APIs and what it's gonna be important.

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Everyone was like, not al like,
you know, like, just move on.

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Tell us like why, why you're exciting.

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And that was really cool to watch.

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Like just the shift and like,
you know, back when like we were

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talking about DocHub, it was like,

00:15:36.967 --> 00:15:37.087
I

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don't know what like GitHub was kind
of big, but it was like, get up has

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like, 800,000 users at that point.

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Like, it's like, and it
was huge for a dev tool.

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Like, it's not, it wasn't
like a lucrative market.

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Like maybe you could say like, Microsoft
had some cool, like, you know, back then

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like net stuff, like everything was like
free and open source and there wasn't

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like any examples, like, I remember
like, you know, really loving Twilio, for

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example, and like Stripe just opened up.

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But like I don't know.

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It's, it's but they weren't huge.

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Like obviously these names I'm saying
now, like Stripe and Twilio are

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huge now, but like, Twilio was like,
you know, 12 people at the time.

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Like it was super tiny and like, it was,
it was cool and I would've loved to have

00:16:11.907 --> 00:16:14.757
like, worked there, but it wasn't like,
it was like, this is a good business.

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And like now it's not.

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That's completely that true.

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Like now APIs are a gigantic business
and there's no doubt by mine.

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But yeah, it was, it was an uphill
battle early on cuz like, no one

00:16:21.864 --> 00:16:24.744
people, like, even people who knew
about it, like knew what Dev knew

00:16:24.744 --> 00:16:26.094
by dev tools, like under show APIs.

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Like, they're like,
yeah, that's cool, but.

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There's not a lot of money in it.

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So I dunno.

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It's it's tough and that's why like,
I, I'm not a huge huge fan of raising

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money is because I just never know.

00:16:36.842 --> 00:16:37.832
Like, I was always like always afraid.

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Cause like, we're always a little
bit ahead of time, I think.

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And yeah, so

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I dunno.

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Matt: dunno.

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So like,

00:16:44.263 --> 00:16:44.383
if

00:16:44.383 --> 00:16:47.413
you were to start over again, and I
remember when I actually found the Doca

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website, it was still up and if you
look at the Doco website, it says, Like

00:16:52.543 --> 00:16:57.103
we, like, I think you made unsolicited
documentation for some company.

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I Scribd, or I can't remember what it was.

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Yeah.

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And I'm curious if you were, if
you were to start again today.

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Yeah.

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And no one knows Readme.

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Right.

00:17:06.043 --> 00:17:09.463
And somehow you got, you know, you're
not even.com, you're like readme

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dot, you know, io or.app or dot, you
know, whatever, you know, dev the

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documentation website.com or something.

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Right?

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No one knows about you.

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Mm-hmm.

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, how would you get people excited about it?

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Like how, how would you get the word out?

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Would you do the same approach?

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Like make unsolicited
documentation, like show it to them

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Greg: That, that didn't work at the time.

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It's,

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That's, that's never worked

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for us.

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Every once in a while I'll go through
a brochure, I'll be like, yeah, let's

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like build the ducks for people.

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And like, it's hard cause I just don't
really value it, which is totally fine.

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Like, it's just like, they're like,
oh, it looks nice, but like, whatever.

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Like, that's not how you sell to

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a company.

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Like,

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I always like thought that would be,
and like you always hear stories about

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like, and these stories are true,
but it's like, you know, the Carlson

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brothers like launched Stripe at like,
going to everyone's office that would

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use it and like sitting down next to
their engineer and like, I don't know.

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I think.

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I believe that story's true.

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Of course.

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I just think that's more of a myth is
like, especially now, like maybe it

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had 15 years ago, that's how it worked,
but like now no company's like letting

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someone come in and like, you know, write
code that's not part of the company.

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Like, that's just not a thing.

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Like if, if someone message emailed
me right now was like, Hey, I got

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this new product, like I'll come
to your office and like write code.

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I'd be like, no, that's weird.

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Like, definitely not.

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But yeah, like, so I mean, what I
did differently, so I had, like,

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I knew I wanted to make Apes used
to use, that's what I cared about.

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And I had a bunch of different
like ideas, like there was Doub,

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which was, you know, became read.

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It looked very different.

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Like similar but very different.

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One called Hook.

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I was very sim I was trying
to find that exact thing and I

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always talked to people about it.

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And and like, There's YC has this
like, or Paul Graham, who started

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by C has, or one of the founders of
YC has this as this blog post where

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he talks about this concert of like
sitcom startups and a sitcom startup.

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His definition is if you were to write,
if you're in a writer's room for a TV show

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and you want to, you know, this character
is a entrepreneur, a tech entrepreneur,

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and like, you have to come up with an
idea that's plausible enough that people

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would be like, oh, yeah, okay, sure.

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Matt's a, that that company sounds right.

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Cause like, you don't take
people outta the sitcom.

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It's like, yeah, that sounds right,
like that's a good enough idea.

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But like, his point is like, there's
a lot of ideas though, like that,

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that like sound good enough that they
pass the, like, it could be a sitcom,

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but like, no one actually wants it.

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And the example they use is
like a social network for pets.

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And like, you go to a bunch of people
like, Hey, you love your dog, right?

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Like, would you use
social network for pets?

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And like, you're like,
yeah, I totally use that.

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But then when it comes town, like
you build it and like it comes time

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to be like, okay, Matts sign up.

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It's like, you'll you'll sign
up cause you're my friends.

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So you'll sign up for it.

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And then like, then I'll
be like, Hey Matt, like.

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Your dog hasn't post in a few weeks, and
you'll be like, fine, and you'll post

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like, one post just to make me happy.

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And it's like, that's kinda the point.

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It's like, it's one of those, like,
there's a lot of stars out there that's

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like a lot of ideas out there where it's
like, it sounds like a good enough idea.

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Like I could convince you that
pet star ideas a really good idea

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because like, hey, look at Instagram.

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So many people have like,
you know, Instagram accounts

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for their dogs and cats.

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Like, but it's not made for that, right?

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Like it's, why would you post it on
like, you know, Instagram's for humans.

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Like, think of all the cool stuff you do
if like, you like Paw or stuff like that.

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And then, and then we also know, by
the way, that like everyone has a pet

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so we can sell to advertisers, right?

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So like, you know, and like you can
like make that case, but like if

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no one actually uses it, like, you
know, if rounds down to zero and

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you end up with zero customers if
everyone's like a maybe or a no.

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So when I'm going with this is that
early on I would tell people about it

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and they'd be like, yeah, that's cool.

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I really like that.

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And I'd like play around
with it and all that.

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And like, it feels good to have
someone say like, yeah, I'd use that.

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But then something shifted, like, I kept
like talking about it and like, you know,

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shifting around ideas and like, it started
to shift where people were like, oh,

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Like, when can I, when can I use that?

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And that's where gets really cool.

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Cause like, I, I noticed to
flip instantly, like the way

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people like respond to me.

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Like, and not that I was ever lying to
myself, but like, I was always like,

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yeah, I guess they kind of want it.

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And like, I like shifted how I was
talking about it and like what, what

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features were important and what
features weren't, and stuff like that.

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And like one day people just all
of a sudden started being like,

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yeah, like, can I set up now?

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And I'm like, no, no.

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Like, it's not ready yet.

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And like, and like one point, like I
like, you know, I did let people start

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using it and like now people are using it.

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Like one person like Venmo would be money.

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Cause I didn't have a, I
didn't set up filling yet.

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And like, and like he didn't Venmo
me for any reason or other like, you

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know, you should be charging for this.

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And like, I just want you to know
like, like this is what I want.

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Like, I just wanna like, give you money.

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Like that's when I quit all my I
was doing freelancing at the time.

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That's when I quit my freelancing jobs
and like, okay, I'm gonna do it full time.

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And like, it wasn't really a question
you asked, I know that, but like, I

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think it doesn't really matter what you
do for marketing stuff, if the idea is

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not kind of exactly where it should be.

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But you had, like, you were doing
something buoyancy years ago, right?

00:21:16.134 --> 00:21:16.344
yeah.

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How did that, I wasn't wondering
like what that, I mean, clearly it

00:21:18.684 --> 00:21:21.073
didn't work out that well cuz but
like, what was it, how did that work?

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Matt: so there's a couple other,
like, there's a couple entrepreneurs

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out there that have like these lists
of all the things that they've done

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and like what the status of it.

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I need to make one of those.

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Oh yeah.

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Buoy.

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I just abandoned it.

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Yeah.

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Like I, the idea behind buoyancy was
to test FBI test if your idea floats.

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Yep.

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And you, I don't know, like I spent
more money like paying for the domain

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name every year than I did working,
like, like would've been working on it.

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Right.

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And eventually I was just like, okay,
I'm gonna let it, I'm gonna let it go.

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I gotta let it go.

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But that was the idea.

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And so it was sort of like, it was like
analytics and loosely borrowed from

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the idea of Buffer how Buffer started.

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So they put up like a home pay, a
landing page, and there's a few clicks

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you could do and you could see pricing
and it was like, this sounds great.

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I wanna go and buy this.

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And then you go to buy it and it's
like, and you think it's real.

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And it's like a couple
different pricing plans.

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You click buy and sign up and
they give them your email and

00:22:08.181 --> 00:22:10.731
then you, they say like, Hey,
we're not quite ready for you yet.

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But, you know But we'll let
you know when we are ready.

00:22:12.810 --> 00:22:13.170
Mm-hmm.

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. And so I wanted to like
build that as like a product.

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Mm-hmm.

00:22:16.894 --> 00:22:19.037
. But you know, a bit more to
it, like how long did it take

00:22:19.037 --> 00:22:19.967
you to click between screens?

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What are the different screens?

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Can you do it from your phone like in
a bar when you have an idea one night?

00:22:24.497 --> 00:22:27.467
I never really got, I never
really took it too much.

00:22:27.497 --> 00:22:28.007
Too far.

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Right.

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I never built it out.

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Yeah.

00:22:29.625 --> 00:22:31.647
I got busy with other stuff and
I needed to make money cuz I

00:22:31.647 --> 00:22:34.407
started that idea in college and
I was like, broke college kids.

00:22:34.412 --> 00:22:34.747
So

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Greg: I mean, you also, you can't
have a business where you're selling

00:22:37.002 --> 00:22:38.142
to people who are also broke.

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Just have ideas.

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So it's not the best

00:22:39.752 --> 00:22:40.502
early business.

00:22:40.637 --> 00:22:40.787
Matt: Yeah.

00:22:40.787 --> 00:22:41.297
True.

00:22:41.522 --> 00:22:42.722
Greg: Do you remember a launch rock there?

00:22:42.727 --> 00:22:43.952
Answer of Launch Rock A little bit.

00:22:44.267 --> 00:22:44.777
Matt: Launch Rock?

00:22:44.837 --> 00:22:46.307
Yeah, I do actually.

00:22:46.307 --> 00:22:47.237
It was so, or similar.

00:22:47.237 --> 00:22:48.257
Are they still around

00:22:48.272 --> 00:22:51.152
Greg: Googled and I got off
by startups.com, I guess, but

00:22:51.197 --> 00:22:52.367
Matt: what is startups.com?

00:22:52.442 --> 00:22:52.922
Greg: clue.

00:22:53.014 --> 00:22:56.319
But startups.com, it's like a
roll up where they just like

00:22:56.319 --> 00:22:57.219
buy a bunch of like stuff.

00:22:57.224 --> 00:23:00.289
But like yeah, cause I remember like
back in college it would be like, yeah,

00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:03.979
like it made it so easy just to like,
launch something look kind of nice

00:23:03.979 --> 00:23:06.529
and you'd be like, and you talk to the
domain and you could like, get people

00:23:06.529 --> 00:23:09.919
to sign up and like, I never got sign
up, but it was like a, a cheap way.

00:23:10.249 --> 00:23:14.149
I mean, I think the hard part
about those are like, don't know,

00:23:14.149 --> 00:23:15.229
it, it's such a hard balance.

00:23:15.229 --> 00:23:16.669
Cause you have to find
that conviction though.

00:23:16.729 --> 00:23:20.539
Like, I don't, it's cause it, it's,
it's like a, you get a egg problem,

00:23:20.539 --> 00:23:23.389
which is like, you know what, what
number of people clicking, like the

00:23:23.389 --> 00:23:26.209
pricing page is gonna like actually
convince you to spend the next like,

00:23:27.229 --> 00:23:29.749
let's say two months for a
really, really simple MVP.

00:23:31.504 --> 00:23:32.464
Oh, I had a question for you actually.

00:23:32.734 --> 00:23:33.964
What do you believe?

00:23:33.994 --> 00:23:35.374
So I think there's like, there's a lot of

00:23:35.499 --> 00:23:36.574
Matt: That's a deep,
that's a deep question.

00:23:36.934 --> 00:23:37.054
Greg: Yeah.

00:23:37.054 --> 00:23:38.330
What do you believe just in general?

00:23:38.330 --> 00:23:41.956
So there's like, like a lot of startups
raise a bunch of money and spend like

00:23:41.956 --> 00:23:45.046
three years in development and launch
something like Superhuman for example,

00:23:45.046 --> 00:23:47.986
where it's like, it comes out, it's
polished and other people are like, you

00:23:47.986 --> 00:23:51.702
know, if you're not embarrassed by your
v1 then you've taken too long to ship.

00:23:51.702 --> 00:23:54.912
Like, do you fall either direction on
those or where do you feel on those?

00:23:57.827 --> 00:24:00.867
Matt: You get a lot of surprise
and wow factor with the former,

00:24:00.867 --> 00:24:02.427
with the, the superhuman approach.

00:24:02.427 --> 00:24:05.217
Like, we're gonna go into secret
build something for three years.

00:24:05.222 --> 00:24:06.387
You need a lot of money to do that.

00:24:06.387 --> 00:24:08.007
Unless like it's hard to do by yourself,

00:24:08.012 --> 00:24:08.132
you

00:24:08.172 --> 00:24:09.522
Greg: do it unless you
already have a success.

00:24:09.522 --> 00:24:10.452
As a founder, I

00:24:10.862 --> 00:24:11.247
Matt: you think

00:24:11.472 --> 00:24:12.552
Greg: well like, okay, like look at like,

00:24:13.182 --> 00:24:13.332
like

00:24:13.332 --> 00:24:15.252
Mighty did it, but that
was like the founder did

00:24:15.252 --> 00:24:16.212
Mixed panel before that.

00:24:16.212 --> 00:24:17.092
So everyone knew who he was.

00:24:17.126 --> 00:24:21.602
Raul from superhuman did Report,
rapportive  but like the Gmail plugin

00:24:21.624 --> 00:24:24.956
and like in the same space like what
are some other ones that, like Figma.

00:24:24.961 --> 00:24:25.916
Figma I think did that right?

00:24:25.916 --> 00:24:26.306
Maybe not.

00:24:26.306 --> 00:24:29.726
I think Figma did, like, there was a
pretty big, like Figma wasn't like an mvp.

00:24:29.731 --> 00:24:33.176
Figma came up pretty good, but like, I
don't know what Dylan did before this, but

00:24:33.272 --> 00:24:35.192
Matt: I think I, I don't know.

00:24:35.412 --> 00:24:36.462
Apple does this.

00:24:36.462 --> 00:24:36.522
Yeah.

00:24:36.732 --> 00:24:36.912
Right.

00:24:36.912 --> 00:24:38.442
And obviously they have infinite money.

00:24:38.532 --> 00:24:38.592
Yeah.

00:24:38.597 --> 00:24:41.802
They can do whatever they want, but you
get that surprise and that wow factor.

00:24:41.807 --> 00:24:41.902
Yeah.

00:24:42.282 --> 00:24:44.562
But, and that's great.

00:24:44.562 --> 00:24:45.342
But I don't know if I.

00:24:46.407 --> 00:24:47.757
My approach is not doing that.

00:24:48.177 --> 00:24:51.507
So like I've been building this thing
called Pickle for years, and originally

00:24:51.507 --> 00:24:52.647
like I've made so many mistakes.

00:24:52.647 --> 00:24:55.257
Like, I was like, oh, I'm gonna build
this personal CRM thing and then

00:24:55.257 --> 00:24:57.417
I'm gonna sell it to other people
and I'm gonna sell it to realtors.

00:24:57.422 --> 00:24:58.287
And I got really into that.

00:24:58.292 --> 00:25:00.027
I started going to real
estate conventions.

00:25:00.447 --> 00:25:03.237
I would go to open houses
and like  and like harass the

00:25:03.237 --> 00:25:04.767
realtors working the open house.

00:25:04.977 --> 00:25:06.867
I started building like extra apps around

00:25:06.987 --> 00:25:08.067
Greg: people were trying to sell a house.

00:25:08.072 --> 00:25:09.387
And you're like, no, I can do one better.

00:25:09.482 --> 00:25:10.467
Matt: Yeah, I could do one better.

00:25:10.467 --> 00:25:11.157
Check this out.

00:25:11.487 --> 00:25:14.067
And like, I, I thought I
understood real estate.

00:25:14.067 --> 00:25:15.117
I know nothing about it.

00:25:15.117 --> 00:25:17.607
Like, it's totally different like
trying to sell to a realtor than

00:25:17.607 --> 00:25:18.747
it is trying to build for myself.

00:25:18.752 --> 00:25:20.937
And that's what I've been,
I've been, I've rebuilt it for

00:25:20.937 --> 00:25:22.677
myself and for me it's useful.

00:25:22.677 --> 00:25:24.387
And if other people wanna
use it, that's cool.

00:25:24.417 --> 00:25:24.627
Yep.

00:25:24.632 --> 00:25:24.957
But

00:25:25.362 --> 00:25:26.052
Greg: well, that's the thing too though,

00:25:26.052 --> 00:25:28.332
is like you said before, like, you
know, just to like build it out for

00:25:28.332 --> 00:25:31.002
people, it's like no, people are
just busy and no one wants you to,

00:25:31.002 --> 00:25:33.042
like, you can put the work in,
but like, no one wants that.

00:25:33.042 --> 00:25:35.172
No one wants to like, you know,
everyone thinks like, oh, I can start

00:25:35.172 --> 00:25:38.102
a restaurant startup, I just like,
I can see 30 restaurant around here.

00:25:38.102 --> 00:25:40.602
And you go in like the restaurant
owner please leave me alone.

00:25:40.632 --> 00:25:41.172
I don't wanna do

00:25:41.217 --> 00:25:41.457
Matt: this.

00:25:41.487 --> 00:25:43.497
You know, it was like my
first actual startup you

00:25:43.532 --> 00:25:44.082
Greg: you do mini thing or

00:25:44.517 --> 00:25:44.667
Matt: When

00:25:44.717 --> 00:25:44.877
I was

00:25:46.337 --> 00:25:50.457
Thir 14 or or so I hacked
together this PHP thing.

00:25:50.457 --> 00:25:50.547
Mm-hmm.

00:25:50.787 --> 00:25:55.257
. So my dad owned a restaurant and this
restaurant, like you had a website with

00:25:55.257 --> 00:25:58.827
a menu and back then, like restaurant
websites were absolute garbage.

00:25:58.947 --> 00:26:02.607
They were either flash or they didn't
exist or they, they didn't work on mobile.

00:26:02.697 --> 00:26:05.907
And then finally, like you couldn't get
any of the information that you wanted,

00:26:05.907 --> 00:26:07.347
like what you want about a restaurant

00:26:07.467 --> 00:26:09.807
Greg: I wanna know if they're open,
what time the kitchen's open till,

00:26:09.837 --> 00:26:11.487
Matt: to make a reservation
or contact them.

00:26:11.492 --> 00:26:13.977
Reservation and see like they
specials that sort of Exactly.

00:26:14.387 --> 00:26:15.702
But they would all be like, look at these.

00:26:15.702 --> 00:26:17.832
Be like, you're like lost.

00:26:17.862 --> 00:26:17.922
Yeah.

00:26:18.282 --> 00:26:21.895
So I built this thing and it would
let you, the person behind the bar

00:26:21.925 --> 00:26:23.425
would be able to set the specials.

00:26:23.425 --> 00:26:25.105
They'd be able to print
them out in a nice format.

00:26:25.375 --> 00:26:26.515
They would be updated on the website.

00:26:26.515 --> 00:26:28.465
At the same time the
contact info was there.

00:26:28.465 --> 00:26:29.665
It worked on mobile.

00:26:29.905 --> 00:26:34.255
And when I meant mobile then it wasn't
iPhones, it was like Blackberry and

00:26:34.285 --> 00:26:38.215
like Palm Pilot things and, and like the
Windows CE or whatever Windows phone,

00:26:38.305 --> 00:26:39.831
like which is basically a Palm pilot.

00:26:39.832 --> 00:26:43.403
And so that was I went door to door
trying to get to restaurants to buy it.

00:26:43.433 --> 00:26:43.733
Yeah.

00:26:43.943 --> 00:26:48.293
And not a single, like maybe one or
two did, but not anyone really cared.

00:26:48.298 --> 00:26:49.673
They're like, we don't
have money for this.

00:26:49.673 --> 00:26:49.733
Yeah.

00:26:49.793 --> 00:26:50.423
We don't care.

00:26:50.453 --> 00:26:51.473
People still show up.

00:26:51.593 --> 00:26:51.773
Yeah.

00:26:51.953 --> 00:26:52.283
Right.

00:26:52.283 --> 00:26:55.673
And the last thing that they're gonna do
when people aren't showing up is like,

00:26:56.333 --> 00:27:00.413
give this 15 year old kid a bunch of money
to like, for this like web app thing.

00:27:00.413 --> 00:27:01.673
Before web app was a term.

00:27:02.453 --> 00:27:03.023
No one cared.

00:27:03.323 --> 00:27:04.523
I did sell it though.

00:27:04.823 --> 00:27:05.003
Greg: Yeah.

00:27:05.393 --> 00:27:07.643
Hey, you sold the company,
like as a company?

00:27:07.703 --> 00:27:08.663
Matt: It wasn't a real company.

00:27:08.668 --> 00:27:10.403
I sold the product to the guy said I

00:27:10.433 --> 00:27:12.143
Greg: that's where, that's where
you got your millions from.

00:27:12.143 --> 00:27:13.043
I, I knew there had to be

00:27:13.253 --> 00:27:13.743
Matt: Yeah.

00:27:13.743 --> 00:27:14.183
Yeah.

00:27:14.723 --> 00:27:15.323
That's what I was driving.

00:27:15.323 --> 00:27:16.703
A Ford Exploder around.

00:27:16.943 --> 00:27:18.863
No, that was like rusting
through the floor.

00:27:19.043 --> 00:27:19.223
Greg: Perfect.

00:27:19.223 --> 00:27:20.513
You're oh, You you're humble.

00:27:20.513 --> 00:27:21.173
Like we're in Buffet.

00:27:21.173 --> 00:27:21.503
You just

00:27:21.503 --> 00:27:21.623
didn't

00:27:21.758 --> 00:27:22.178
Matt: you ever

00:27:22.408 --> 00:27:22.913
Greg: up your money.

00:27:22.913 --> 00:27:23.063
I

00:27:23.248 --> 00:27:24.248
Matt: did I ever tell you the story?

00:27:24.248 --> 00:27:26.978
How I got pulled over by Cop
the first time in that car?

00:27:27.128 --> 00:27:29.258
Okay, so I told you it was
rusting through the floor.

00:27:29.263 --> 00:27:31.178
I got pulled over by a cop and I
couldn't find my wallet anywhere.

00:27:31.178 --> 00:27:33.758
And I was kind of nervous cuz I'd
never been pulled over before I was,

00:27:33.763 --> 00:27:37.628
I was going like 40 on a 35, like,
I don't know, it was Christmas Eve.

00:27:38.008 --> 00:27:40.868
And I'm like, can I get outta
the car to look for my wallet?

00:27:40.868 --> 00:27:44.018
Because I like the only interface I
had with cops was like my friend's dad

00:27:44.018 --> 00:27:46.028
was a cop and then like the show cops.

00:27:46.028 --> 00:27:48.848
And I'm like, yep, I don't want to go to
like, I don't wanna be on this TV show.

00:27:48.848 --> 00:27:49.208
Right.

00:27:49.658 --> 00:27:50.438
So we said, yeah.

00:27:50.528 --> 00:27:51.728
So I look, I'm like, okay.

00:27:51.728 --> 00:27:51.968
I get

00:27:52.043 --> 00:27:55.973
Greg: no, I, the show cops and tourist was
about teenagers who were going a little

00:27:55.973 --> 00:27:57.821
bit a little bit over on Christmas Eve.

00:27:57.821 --> 00:27:59.051
It was, it was a great show.

00:27:59.056 --> 00:27:59.231
It was

00:27:59.336 --> 00:27:59.996
Matt: yeah, yeah.

00:27:59.996 --> 00:28:00.506
It was really.

00:28:00.556 --> 00:28:01.271
Greg: was always a

00:28:01.291 --> 00:28:01.901
Matt: It was great.

00:28:02.551 --> 00:28:04.661
Greg: 17 year olds and
like, whatever, you know?

00:28:04.661 --> 00:28:06.521
Matt: Yeah, no, so long story

00:28:06.521 --> 00:28:09.341
short, he's got his flashlight out
cause it's nighttime and he's looking

00:28:09.341 --> 00:28:10.781
around cause I can't find my wallet.

00:28:10.841 --> 00:28:14.051
And he says to me before I could
find my wallet, he could see like

00:28:14.201 --> 00:28:17.121
how like the seatbelt thing like that
attaches to the floor was rusting and

00:28:17.141 --> 00:28:18.371
everything was like rusting in the car.

00:28:18.371 --> 00:28:20.141
He said, is this car safe to drive?

00:28:20.146 --> 00:28:22.271
And I was just like, it's my only car man.

00:28:23.771 --> 00:28:24.911
Greg: Your family own the Yankees.

00:28:24.911 --> 00:28:25.631
What's going on here?

00:28:25.661 --> 00:28:26.481
Matt: he, he gave me a warning.

00:28:26.531 --> 00:28:27.321
He gave a warning.

00:28:27.551 --> 00:28:27.821
Yeah.

00:28:27.911 --> 00:28:28.601
But that was pretty funny.

00:28:28.606 --> 00:28:28.961
Anyways.

00:28:29.047 --> 00:28:30.127
Yeah, going back to the original

00:28:30.167 --> 00:28:32.731
Greg: original Oh yeah, I just also, you
said like billing for yourself and like,

00:28:32.731 --> 00:28:33.931
it's really tough cause I think that

00:28:33.998 --> 00:28:34.743
Matt: hard to do though.

00:28:34.778 --> 00:28:34.863
Greg: Okay.

00:28:34.863 --> 00:28:37.053
So if you're in an industry, it's
really hard to build for the industry

00:28:37.053 --> 00:28:39.303
because like you have, so like, I
always have this like, concept of

00:28:39.303 --> 00:28:42.735
like intentional ignorance I call
it, which is like, I don't wanna

00:28:42.735 --> 00:28:43.665
know what our competitor's up to.

00:28:43.665 --> 00:28:45.975
I don't wanna know what already
exists because like there's something

00:28:45.975 --> 00:28:47.715
like, I know a little bit about,
of course, like, and of course I

00:28:47.715 --> 00:28:48.875
actually know a lot at this point.

00:28:48.875 --> 00:28:51.665
But like, it's just,
it's so easy to like to.

00:28:52.190 --> 00:28:54.920
To, to fall into like the fallacy
of like, oh, it can't be done

00:28:54.920 --> 00:28:55.970
because so and so tried it.

00:28:55.970 --> 00:28:58.380
Like the problem is like, if you ever
like have an idea, by the way every

00:28:58.380 --> 00:29:01.860
idea has been done not well and, and
all that, but like, you'll be like,

00:29:01.890 --> 00:29:04.950
oh, I wanna do like X And like, then
what you do is you get like a bunch of

00:29:05.040 --> 00:29:08.250
bcs who are like, oh, so and so tried
this two years ago and like it didn't

00:29:08.250 --> 00:29:09.150
work and here's why it didn't work.

00:29:09.150 --> 00:29:11.370
And like, you start to get very
discouraged or you start to be like,

00:29:11.400 --> 00:29:12.600
oh, this company already did it.

00:29:12.600 --> 00:29:15.300
So like, okay, let's say I
wanna like launch like a, a

00:29:15.300 --> 00:29:16.320
Photoshop competitor for example.

00:29:16.320 --> 00:29:18.611
Like, you probably go and you
look at Photoshop and you're like,

00:29:18.611 --> 00:29:19.680
I'm gonna copy all these tools.

00:29:19.685 --> 00:29:20.670
It's like, is that the right way to do it?

00:29:20.670 --> 00:29:23.670
Like, I'm blown away, like the
figma of some of the features that

00:29:23.670 --> 00:29:25.530
have, I'm like, I just didn't think,
like, I never would've done that.

00:29:25.535 --> 00:29:26.160
Like, that's insane.

00:29:26.160 --> 00:29:30.000
Or like, and like this intentional
ignorance is like, it's tough cuz like

00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:30.810
you can't go too far the opposite way.

00:29:30.840 --> 00:29:33.690
You can't like know nothing cuz then you
just like, you know, it's like people who

00:29:33.690 --> 00:29:35.220
don't learn history or fail to repeat it.

00:29:35.220 --> 00:29:37.050
Like you, you need to know enough.

00:29:37.110 --> 00:29:40.320
But if you know too much, then you either
get too afraid or you get too like locked

00:29:40.320 --> 00:29:41.820
into like, oh, this is how it's done

00:29:42.090 --> 00:29:45.390
and then there's like some crazy ones,
which, you know, I don't advocate for or

00:29:45.390 --> 00:29:48.540
not, but like a lot of progress is made
by like breaking the rules intentionally.

00:29:48.540 --> 00:29:51.570
Like, you look at Uber and like
Uber was ly illegal for a long time.

00:29:51.575 --> 00:29:52.770
Like do you remember like
first in San Francisco?

00:29:52.770 --> 00:29:55.240
Like Uber cars were just getting pulled
over all the time and like people

00:29:55.240 --> 00:29:57.900
like, and like they pushed through
it and like that went well for them,

00:29:57.900 --> 00:30:00.930
but they got like zenefits which also
pushed through healthcare regulations

00:30:00.930 --> 00:30:03.120
cuz they're selling cross state lines
and that did not go well for them.

00:30:03.300 --> 00:30:05.550
And like, it's always hard to find anyway.

00:30:05.550 --> 00:30:08.580
So like, there's this like intentional
ignorance that I think is like really

00:30:08.580 --> 00:30:12.776
fascinating where you, you just
have to know enough but not too much

00:30:12.836 --> 00:30:14.784
and it's hard to find that balance.

00:30:14.794 --> 00:30:18.588
Cuz you know, like for a bit before
I started readme, I was like working

00:30:18.588 --> 00:30:20.748
on construction software and I
wasn't the founder, but I was one

00:30:20.748 --> 00:30:22.038
of like the people on the team.

00:30:22.038 --> 00:30:23.958
I was like a junior
founder or whatever and

00:30:23.958 --> 00:30:25.261
Matt: junior founder,

00:30:25.336 --> 00:30:25.846
Greg: It was a thing.

00:30:25.846 --> 00:30:28.715
I don't know, it was like it was one of
the PayPal founders starting your company.

00:30:28.775 --> 00:30:31.365
And so he was like, they had like, I
guess PayPal did this as well where

00:30:31.365 --> 00:30:33.255
there's like two tiers of founders

00:30:33.358 --> 00:30:34.023
.
Yeah, no, a hundred percent.

00:30:34.023 --> 00:30:36.933
It's, it's, it's employees that make
absolutely no money that, but they

00:30:36.933 --> 00:30:38.163
like, like you're a founder though

00:30:38.234 --> 00:30:38.994
Matt: Put it on your LinkedIn.

00:30:39.064 --> 00:30:42.728
Greg: Yeah, so it's not on my LinkedIn,
but trust me I'm not gonna say which

00:30:42.728 --> 00:30:45.913
founder it was, but not a lot of, not
a lot of, not a lot of PayPal Mafia

00:30:45.913 --> 00:30:48.798
people are getting good press these
days, so but he was, he was a, he

00:30:48.798 --> 00:30:49.658
was one of the PayPal mafia people

00:30:49.678 --> 00:30:50.358
Matt: You can tweet that

00:30:52.158 --> 00:30:52.518
. 
Greg: That's,

00:30:52.548 --> 00:30:52.938
yeah.

00:30:52.938 --> 00:30:54.618
On Elon's site now.

00:30:55.983 --> 00:30:57.873
No, I think I'm gonna get a pass on that.

00:30:57.873 --> 00:30:58.773
I'm gonna keep that one to myself.

00:30:58.773 --> 00:31:00.943
But anyway, so I was working on it
and like, one of the things that

00:31:00.943 --> 00:31:02.425
was like really interesting was like
I talking to construction person,

00:31:02.425 --> 00:31:04.945
he's like, here's the weird, again,
we never really did anything.

00:31:04.945 --> 00:31:07.045
Like, I was never into this idea
cuz, and like, but this is what made

00:31:07.045 --> 00:31:09.235
me realize like, I don't wanna be
doing this, is like, we're talking

00:31:09.235 --> 00:31:10.345
to this guy does construction.

00:31:10.345 --> 00:31:12.205
He's like, Hey, people trying to sell
construction software all the time.

00:31:12.325 --> 00:31:14.695
And he's like, one of the weirdest thing
about construction software is he's

00:31:14.695 --> 00:31:18.145
like, every single one, you cr you like,
you create a new project or whatever,

00:31:18.145 --> 00:31:21.595
like a new like construction project
and you click create a new project.

00:31:21.835 --> 00:31:25.345
And every single time he's like, every
single time a tech person comes to me, the

00:31:25.345 --> 00:31:26.905
first thing is like, enter the address.

00:31:26.905 --> 00:31:30.385
And he's like, we don't have an address
because we're like construction people.

00:31:30.385 --> 00:31:31.165
We're building the thing.

00:31:31.165 --> 00:31:33.145
And he's like, he's like,
and like he's like, that's my

00:31:33.145 --> 00:31:34.517
like, like my like litmus test.

00:31:34.517 --> 00:31:38.029
He's like, if they ask for an address,
like up front, it's like they clearly

00:31:38.029 --> 00:31:39.199
have no clue what they're doing.

00:31:39.229 --> 00:31:39.729
Matt: They don't get it

00:31:39.729 --> 00:31:40.049
Greg: Yeah.

00:31:40.269 --> 00:31:43.129
And I always thought that was like such
a, like that stuck with me like, not about

00:31:43.159 --> 00:31:45.379
construction, I don't care about that
person or that's not what stuck with me.

00:31:45.384 --> 00:31:48.229
But what stuck with me was like
this concept of like, okay, you

00:31:48.229 --> 00:31:52.279
can't like, like you can't go
if you're too into construction.

00:31:53.074 --> 00:31:56.044
Then you just create construction company
that's a model of everything else out

00:31:56.044 --> 00:31:58.684
there and you just kind of like do what's
already done and like what's the point of

00:31:58.684 --> 00:31:59.764
doing something that's already been done.

00:31:59.764 --> 00:32:02.194
So like, you know, something like
PlanGrid, like I don't actually know their

00:32:02.194 --> 00:32:04.264
backgrounds, but like, I can't imagine
they were like doing construction for

00:32:04.264 --> 00:32:05.904
20 years before they started PlanGrid.

00:32:05.966 --> 00:32:08.276
So you be an outsider, you can't
be too much of an outsider.

00:32:08.306 --> 00:32:10.436
Cause if you're too much of an
outsider, you're solving problems

00:32:10.436 --> 00:32:13.436
that like no one actually has or
perceived problems from the outside.

00:32:13.436 --> 00:32:17.126
And like, I don't know, like I think the
healthcare industry is very messed up,

00:32:17.246 --> 00:32:20.216
but I a hundred percent know that anything
I were to do in the healthcare industry,

00:32:20.216 --> 00:32:24.446
like would not be solving the actual
problem most likely because I'd actually

00:32:24.451 --> 00:32:25.616
know what the problem is necessarily.

00:32:26.126 --> 00:32:27.306
Matt: so do you, would you say.

00:32:28.211 --> 00:32:31.271
That in order to build a good product
or a company around it, you have

00:32:31.271 --> 00:32:35.621
to sort of build it for yourself
first so you understand the problem.

00:32:35.756 --> 00:32:38.816
Greg: Yeah, but that's hard because
like, okay, so that being said, like,

00:32:40.076 --> 00:32:40.916
Startups.

00:32:41.036 --> 00:32:45.511
So Readme is caters to developers, like
other developers like you mentioned,

00:32:45.511 --> 00:32:47.101
like, you know, the restaurant
that your dad owned a restaurant.

00:32:47.101 --> 00:32:50.011
So like, that's not for yourself, but like
it's for someone you know, really closely.

00:32:50.461 --> 00:32:52.231
But like outside of that, it's
like tough though, cuz like,

00:32:52.231 --> 00:32:53.311
it's different skill sets.

00:32:53.311 --> 00:32:56.281
Like to your point, it's like not
many people, and there are a few,

00:32:56.371 --> 00:33:00.121
not many people like work at a
restaurant for 20 years and then

00:33:00.126 --> 00:33:01.081
decide to create a startup out of it.

00:33:01.081 --> 00:33:03.331
Like that's a really tough jump as well.

00:33:03.571 --> 00:33:05.671
So like, I don't know, like, I imagine
most startups, like if you were to

00:33:05.676 --> 00:33:08.851
look at the people's backgrounds, I'm
trying think like off the top of my

00:33:08.851 --> 00:33:10.261
head, like some like big startups like.

00:33:11.101 --> 00:33:11.971
Sometimes, sure.

00:33:11.971 --> 00:33:14.131
But like for the most, I mean, I do think
that's why there's a lot of dev tools now.

00:33:14.131 --> 00:33:15.964
I do think that's why there's a
lot of like I mean there's like a

00:33:15.964 --> 00:33:18.934
gigantic sectors, like there's tons
of startups for like salespeople.

00:33:18.934 --> 00:33:21.989
So it's like CRMs all flavors
of CRMs, all flavors like that.

00:33:21.989 --> 00:33:25.409
It's like, okay, I imagine 80% of
those people who started them are 90%,

00:33:25.409 --> 00:33:28.799
were like salespeople who are like
this, the current situation sucks.

00:33:28.799 --> 00:33:31.093
Like, I can do my own or like,
you know, tools for marketers

00:33:31.093 --> 00:33:32.113
or HubSpot and stuff like that.

00:33:32.213 --> 00:33:34.573
And like, there's just so many like
tools out there that definitely are

00:33:34.603 --> 00:33:40.123
building for yourself, but like once
you get out of there, like it, I

00:33:40.123 --> 00:33:42.343
feel like very, like maybe there's
a co-founder or something that like

00:33:42.343 --> 00:33:43.651
did it or whatever, but I don't know.

00:33:43.681 --> 00:33:46.021
I think that's like, I don't think
it's bad advice to build something

00:33:46.021 --> 00:33:48.991
for yourself, but I think it's like,
I don't think it's the full picture.

00:33:48.991 --> 00:33:52.261
Like I don't think it's, cause I think,
you know, again, like you can build

00:33:52.261 --> 00:33:53.491
a dev tool right now and you should.

00:33:53.496 --> 00:33:57.976
Cause it's a great market and I love
it, but it's like, Everyone's like,

00:33:57.976 --> 00:33:59.146
that's every what everyone's doing.

00:33:59.146 --> 00:34:01.456
Like, if you really wanna make a
ton of money, like go find like this

00:34:01.456 --> 00:34:04.576
industry that you've never heard of and
like build something for it, I guess.

00:34:04.576 --> 00:34:06.496
And like, so I don't think it's like, I
don't think there's advice either way.

00:34:06.496 --> 00:34:08.176
I think like both arguments really

00:34:08.221 --> 00:34:11.911
Matt: What, what's the Flexport
at Ryan Peter Patterson.

00:34:13.231 --> 00:34:16.891
find that to be interesting cuz he, he
started like companies before, right?

00:34:16.891 --> 00:34:20.161
And then he decided to go work for
like, in the cargo ship industry.

00:34:20.326 --> 00:34:21.616
Greg: am so outta my
league at talking about

00:34:21.711 --> 00:34:24.179
Matt: this, oh, I only know about
this from like like startup school or

00:34:24.179 --> 00:34:25.739
something when he was talking about it.

00:34:25.769 --> 00:34:26.878
But I thought that was interesting.

00:34:26.878 --> 00:34:28.738
Like, it was like the amount of
paperwork and all that stuff.

00:34:28.738 --> 00:34:30.148
And now they're huge.

00:34:30.228 --> 00:34:33.078
So that, but yeah, I don't know.

00:34:33.318 --> 00:34:38.178
How do you know, like what, you can start,
what, like what do you look, what are

00:34:38.178 --> 00:34:39.318
the indicators that you would look for?

00:34:39.318 --> 00:34:40.878
Like if you were to start
another company Now?

00:34:41.238 --> 00:34:41.848
Not ReadMe

00:34:42.388 --> 00:34:44.908
, 
not, let's say not like dev tool.

00:34:44.968 --> 00:34:45.238
Yeah.

00:34:45.658 --> 00:34:48.178
What, like what would you do and
how would you like, identify what

00:34:48.178 --> 00:34:49.468
to do if you don't know what to do?

00:34:50.353 --> 00:34:50.683
Greg: Yeah.

00:34:50.683 --> 00:34:50.863
I think

00:34:50.863 --> 00:34:51.523
about this a lot.

00:34:51.585 --> 00:34:52.905
Not that, I mean, you're not
sitting here thinking like,

00:34:52.905 --> 00:34:54.915
wow, daydream my next start.

00:34:55.065 --> 00:34:56.602
Cuz what I actually daydream about is

00:34:56.615 --> 00:34:58.069
Matt: cause you did the escape room thing.

00:34:58.264 --> 00:34:58.654
Greg: Oh yeah.

00:34:58.659 --> 00:35:00.064
I mean, so that's what
I think about a lot.

00:35:00.069 --> 00:35:02.884
It's like, let's say whatever, for
whatever reason I leave Readme tomorrow,

00:35:02.884 --> 00:35:05.638
I know exactly what I'm doing, which is
so I built an escape, not leadership.

00:35:05.643 --> 00:35:05.968
This is not a

00:35:07.018 --> 00:35:09.808
I'm here, but but if I were to leave
tomorrow, like I wouldn't wanna do another

00:35:09.808 --> 00:35:11.008
like venture back company right away.

00:35:11.008 --> 00:35:12.478
Like I just love the escape room.

00:35:12.478 --> 00:35:15.790
Cause I built an escape room four years
ago or so, four or five years ago.

00:35:15.811 --> 00:35:19.350
And with my company we've done a bunch
of escape rooms and I just like really

00:35:19.350 --> 00:35:21.540
fell in love with not escape rooms.

00:35:21.641 --> 00:35:24.341
But this concert of like
physical in person, there's

00:35:24.341 --> 00:35:25.181
a few things I led about it.

00:35:25.181 --> 00:35:27.911
One was that it's not competitive in the
sense that you're not competing against

00:35:27.911 --> 00:35:31.151
each other, you're working together to
compete against like something together.

00:35:31.151 --> 00:35:32.171
And I, I like that so much more.

00:35:32.171 --> 00:35:33.581
Like, I dunno if you are, but I'm not.

00:35:33.581 --> 00:35:35.081
I think you are, but I'm
not a competitive person.

00:35:35.081 --> 00:35:39.641
Like I don't care about like, you know,
bowling cuz like if I win, I don't care.

00:35:39.641 --> 00:35:40.691
And if I lose, I don't care.

00:35:41.036 --> 00:35:41.366
Matt: hold on.

00:35:41.366 --> 00:35:43.136
Like, the first thing
you went to is bowling.

00:35:43.136 --> 00:35:43.286
Yeah,

00:35:43.391 --> 00:35:43.671
Greg: Yeah.

00:35:43.751 --> 00:35:45.821
No bowling because like, it's,
it's like a team bonding thing.

00:35:45.821 --> 00:35:48.461
It's like, you don't, like, you know,
I know that there's other sports out

00:35:48.461 --> 00:35:50.651
there than bowling, but like, it's
like, okay, like let's go do something

00:35:50.651 --> 00:35:52.014
that's, oh, lemme take a step back.

00:35:52.085 --> 00:35:55.175
I think like most team events just
are drinking and like, I don't

00:35:55.180 --> 00:35:58.475
mind drinking at all, but it's
like, it's not very inclusive.

00:35:58.475 --> 00:36:02.345
It's not, it's just like, it's just like,
it's not an activity, it's like a lack

00:36:02.345 --> 00:36:03.725
of activity almost, and stuff like that.

00:36:03.725 --> 00:36:04.825
So it's like, okay, what do you wanna do?

00:36:04.830 --> 00:36:05.315
Instead of bowling?

00:36:05.315 --> 00:36:07.955
It's like, or sorry, instead of
drinking, it's like, we can go bowling.

00:36:07.955 --> 00:36:10.355
We could like, I dunno
what else you got, like,

00:36:10.700 --> 00:36:12.590
Matt: well, I know where
you're going with this.

00:36:12.590 --> 00:36:13.880
And I feel the exact same way.

00:36:13.880 --> 00:36:17.047
And this is also not just team
events, but conference events.

00:36:17.122 --> 00:36:18.982
Greg: Conference events,
dates, anything like that.

00:36:19.177 --> 00:36:22.327
Matt: night I went to one of the
happy hours and it's, they're the same

00:36:22.332 --> 00:36:23.587
every conference I've ever gone to.

00:36:23.592 --> 00:36:27.997
You go and, and they're fun, but
to an extent, right, they're loud.

00:36:28.087 --> 00:36:29.587
You can, it's hard to hear each other.

00:36:29.647 --> 00:36:32.857
There's just alcohol, which isn't
like, you know, it is what it is.

00:36:33.067 --> 00:36:34.087
And then that's really it.

00:36:34.087 --> 00:36:36.727
Like they're all kind of the same
thing with just with different people.

00:36:36.732 --> 00:36:37.067
Mm-hmm.

00:36:37.147 --> 00:36:39.457
and like, I, I wish there
was something more there.

00:36:39.877 --> 00:36:41.227
Greg: Yeah, so that's what I
loved escape from was cause

00:36:41.227 --> 00:36:42.337
like, it was like a activity

00:36:42.337 --> 00:36:43.657
where like, cuz there's

00:36:43.657 --> 00:36:46.237
like it's activity where you get
to like work together and it mixes

00:36:46.237 --> 00:36:49.117
you up and it's, but you're not
competing against each other.

00:36:49.122 --> 00:36:52.147
Like no one gets their feelings hurt cuz
you're all working together or maybe you

00:36:52.147 --> 00:36:53.347
all, you all get feeling hurt together.

00:36:53.347 --> 00:36:54.607
It's not that bad if you lose together.

00:36:54.877 --> 00:36:57.907
So I got really into like the,
the social dynamics of like an

00:36:57.907 --> 00:36:58.837
escape room and stuff like that.

00:36:58.837 --> 00:37:01.354
And so I started getting bored of going
to them because like, once you've done

00:37:01.354 --> 00:37:03.844
like 10 of them, it's like, okay, I
kind of get like, you're like, okay,

00:37:03.844 --> 00:37:06.244
I get like how this all works and
like, you kind of like, they're not,

00:37:06.304 --> 00:37:09.454
not fun, but like, and also like as
I was getting into them, like there

00:37:09.459 --> 00:37:12.874
was a, the quality started to go down
because like, there's an explosion them.

00:37:12.874 --> 00:37:14.734
So like some would be really good
and some would be really crappy.

00:37:15.154 --> 00:37:17.554
But I got really interested in like
this concert of all of them and I was

00:37:17.554 --> 00:37:18.544
like, I'm gonna build an escape room.

00:37:18.544 --> 00:37:21.124
So I started just kind of like
doing it in my, in my, not really.

00:37:21.184 --> 00:37:21.334
Okay.

00:37:21.334 --> 00:37:23.614
So lemme put it for, I didn't like sit
down like, I'm gonna start an escape room.

00:37:23.614 --> 00:37:27.214
I was like, I was like, I had this idea
was like, I love for team bonding events.

00:37:27.214 --> 00:37:29.734
Like what if it was like an escape room
where it was like you have one hour.

00:37:30.049 --> 00:37:31.408
To launch your startups.

00:37:31.408 --> 00:37:33.868
Like you have like a million dollars
and like, instead of an hour, it

00:37:33.868 --> 00:37:35.998
is an hour, but like you watched
your bank account go down, you have

00:37:36.208 --> 00:37:37.258
one hour to launch your startup.

00:37:37.258 --> 00:37:38.818
So I was like, I wanna
call it start escape.

00:37:38.823 --> 00:37:40.378
And like, I would like do escapements.

00:37:40.378 --> 00:37:42.508
I'd like, oh, like I could see
that, I could like take this

00:37:42.508 --> 00:37:43.618
and like do a take and this.

00:37:43.618 --> 00:37:45.328
And like, I started like
designing in my head.

00:37:45.328 --> 00:37:46.588
I wasn't like trying to start anything.

00:37:46.623 --> 00:37:48.825
Cause I had read me and one day I
got to the point where I was like,

00:37:49.365 --> 00:37:50.445
I just really wanna build this now.

00:37:50.445 --> 00:37:53.865
Like, I, I just like, cuz I don't
know, I've, I've never really been

00:37:53.865 --> 00:37:55.935
able to kinda articulate this, but
I'm sure you'll feel the same way.

00:37:55.935 --> 00:38:00.465
It's like every amazing thing that has
ever happened happened because someone

00:38:01.515 --> 00:38:05.143
just like did something that was like
very like like had a, like, just something

00:38:05.143 --> 00:38:08.053
like, like out of the, they, they woke up
and they did something different that day.

00:38:08.053 --> 00:38:08.383
Right?

00:38:08.383 --> 00:38:10.003
Like maybe it's like you.

00:38:10.783 --> 00:38:12.883
You know, you're married, I don't
know, like, I don't actually dunno

00:38:12.883 --> 00:38:15.209
how you met wife, but like I'm sure I
did at some point, but like, you did

00:38:15.214 --> 00:38:16.379
something different that day, I'm sure.

00:38:16.379 --> 00:38:18.419
Or you asked her out at least, or
you did something like, there's

00:38:18.419 --> 00:38:21.389
like a, you made a jump and like now
your life is completely different.

00:38:21.389 --> 00:38:23.579
Or like, with reading me, it's
like, again, it's not a big deal.

00:38:23.579 --> 00:38:25.439
It's not like I like woke up one day and
I was like, I'm gonna start reading me.

00:38:25.439 --> 00:38:28.499
It was like, I just chose instead
of doing something else to do

00:38:28.499 --> 00:38:29.609
this and then I did more of it.

00:38:29.609 --> 00:38:33.569
And like, it was a, it wasn't a conscious
decision, but it was like I didn't just

00:38:33.569 --> 00:38:38.129
exist and I didn't just like, get up,
go to work, grab dinner, go to bed.

00:38:38.129 --> 00:38:39.869
Like I like did something different.

00:38:39.874 --> 00:38:42.359
And like, I brought up like
marriage cuz like, I think it's

00:38:42.359 --> 00:38:43.259
just everything in your life.

00:38:43.259 --> 00:38:44.549
Like, very rarely do things just happen.

00:38:44.554 --> 00:38:46.499
Like it's, it's not even
intentional necessarily.

00:38:46.499 --> 00:38:48.959
It's not like you like wake up and like,
I'm gonna get married, I'm gonna meet the

00:38:48.959 --> 00:38:50.039
person I'm gonna get married to today.

00:38:50.039 --> 00:38:53.549
It's like you just do something that's
like a little out of the ordinary.

00:38:53.550 --> 00:38:57.508
And like it's for the escape from, it's
like everyone can, like everyone has

00:38:57.508 --> 00:39:01.108
an idea obviously, and like everyone
has startup ideas or company ideas or

00:39:01.113 --> 00:39:02.788
ideas for a TV show and stuff like that.

00:39:02.793 --> 00:39:04.393
But it's like, Okay.

00:39:04.513 --> 00:39:07.183
But like the ones that got made,
it was because like someone sat

00:39:07.183 --> 00:39:10.963
down, wrote the screenplay and like
mailed it in or something like that.

00:39:10.963 --> 00:39:14.893
And it's like, it doesn't seem like much,
but it's huge to actually like do it.

00:39:14.893 --> 00:39:18.373
And like people just don't, myself
included, like for every one thing

00:39:18.378 --> 00:39:21.283
I do, there's 2000 things I don't
do and I'm like, I should have

00:39:21.283 --> 00:39:22.873
gone there that time and I didn't.

00:39:22.903 --> 00:39:26.083
And like, or I should have like,
you know, made this happen.

00:39:26.113 --> 00:39:27.673
So anyway, so I got like, I
got to this point where I was

00:39:27.673 --> 00:39:27.763
like

00:39:28.333 --> 00:39:30.253
I just hate thinking about stuff
and I just wanna do something.

00:39:30.253 --> 00:39:31.633
So I was like, I'm gonna rent a place.

00:39:31.633 --> 00:39:34.652
So I rented a place in San Francisco
and I was like, I'm just gonna do it.

00:39:34.652 --> 00:39:34.982
Cause like,

00:39:35.672 --> 00:39:37.472
I don't know, I could be sitting
on this podcast too and being

00:39:37.472 --> 00:39:39.662
like, I had this idea for an
escape room and it was really cool.

00:39:39.662 --> 00:39:42.452
And you guys, you know, somebody,
I'll build it and like, that's

00:39:42.452 --> 00:39:43.622
cool to talk about too, I guess.

00:39:43.622 --> 00:39:47.252
But like, that jump to actually like
do it is like, I think everyone in

00:39:47.257 --> 00:39:50.546
their lives has done something like
move to a new city or you know, drop

00:39:50.551 --> 00:39:52.676
outta college or go to college or.

00:39:53.966 --> 00:39:56.546
You know, it's so easy just to
sit there and like at your job

00:39:56.546 --> 00:39:57.836
that you hate every single day.

00:39:57.836 --> 00:40:01.196
But like sometimes you're like, you
know what I'm gonna go to, I don't

00:40:01.196 --> 00:40:02.246
know, where do people go to find jobs?

00:40:02.246 --> 00:40:04.616
monster.com or whatever, and you're
like, I'm gonna find a new job.

00:40:04.886 --> 00:40:05.696
And I wouldn't go there

00:40:05.796 --> 00:40:07.346
Matt: I think everyone
uses like LinkedIn now.

00:40:07.346 --> 00:40:07.706
Greg: Sure.

00:40:07.711 --> 00:40:08.276
I don't know, man.

00:40:08.344 --> 00:40:08.627
But

00:40:08.837 --> 00:40:09.827
Matt: or they just get
a bunch of recruiter

00:40:10.067 --> 00:40:10.427
Greg: yeah.

00:40:10.487 --> 00:40:10.577
I

00:40:10.577 --> 00:40:12.587
don't think anyone's like looking
for jobs in tech, but like, but

00:40:12.587 --> 00:40:15.167
like as a tech, people are like,
you know, how do you jump up?

00:40:15.167 --> 00:40:15.347
Cause.

00:40:15.962 --> 00:40:18.032
You just one day you're
like, I'm gonna do this.

00:40:18.032 --> 00:40:21.692
And like you just get that, like that
rush of like, cuz people very few, like

00:40:21.782 --> 00:40:24.722
again, I don't like Elon at all, but like
he does have the sustained, as much as I

00:40:24.727 --> 00:40:29.612
dislike him, he does have the sustained
ability to just make things happen

00:40:29.612 --> 00:40:31.112
every single minute of every single day.

00:40:31.112 --> 00:40:33.602
And like half the time it light
things on fire and all that.

00:40:33.602 --> 00:40:36.152
But like, he's kinda interesting
where he's always doing something

00:40:36.212 --> 00:40:37.232
and I think that's really annoying.

00:40:37.232 --> 00:40:39.182
I would hate to be anywhere near
him cuz like, it's like a bull in

00:40:39.182 --> 00:40:40.892
a China shop cause like all that.

00:40:40.892 --> 00:40:41.852
But like most people don't have that.

00:40:41.852 --> 00:40:45.722
Most people have a burst where it's like
you, you do something big and then you

00:40:45.727 --> 00:40:49.022
spend a lot of time like dealing with
the good or bad consequences of that.

00:40:49.022 --> 00:40:51.872
So like, you like get up and you're
like, I get a new job and you get

00:40:51.877 --> 00:40:54.602
it and then you can't just like
get a new job two weeks later.

00:40:54.602 --> 00:40:57.332
Like you're like, okay now I have to
like, you know, you go back and down,

00:40:57.332 --> 00:40:58.682
like your energy kind of goes back down.

00:40:58.682 --> 00:40:59.912
You're like, you're coasting a little bit.

00:40:59.912 --> 00:41:01.922
Stuff like that cause you're
tired or, or whatever else.

00:41:01.922 --> 00:41:04.497
And or you focus on different
things or like, you know, your

00:41:04.497 --> 00:41:07.017
health got bad so you're like, okay,
I'm gonna go get healthy again.

00:41:07.017 --> 00:41:07.347
Stuff like that.

00:41:07.347 --> 00:41:10.107
But again, that's another thing, it's
like, I decided to go to the gym today

00:41:10.107 --> 00:41:12.477
and like be really like, it's like that,
like everyone wants to go to the gym.

00:41:12.477 --> 00:41:16.347
Everyone wants to be like, you know,
gorgeous and healthy, but like, you just,

00:41:16.437 --> 00:41:19.214
it's just one day you do it and it's I
don't know where we're going with all

00:41:19.214 --> 00:41:21.734
this or where I was going with all this,
but like, I do think like it's this thing

00:41:21.739 --> 00:41:24.854
where it's like that for me, the escape
room was like, I was like, I could just

00:41:24.854 --> 00:41:27.074
like talk about it or I could just do it.

00:41:27.074 --> 00:41:31.004
And like, it was, it's, it's, it's,
it's usually like, there's usually

00:41:31.004 --> 00:41:34.664
like a pivot point and for me it was
like, I actually like found a location,

00:41:34.664 --> 00:41:37.664
like signed a lease and like once
I did that, the ball was rolling.

00:41:37.664 --> 00:41:39.944
Like I couldn't get out of, it wasn't
like, I could be like, ah, just kidding.

00:41:39.949 --> 00:41:43.304
Now I have like a $5,000 lease in the
heart of San Francisco that I'm just not

00:41:43.309 --> 00:41:44.585
gonna do anything with the next two years.

00:41:44.614 --> 00:41:47.647
So I did that and I so I just like, you
know, was like, I'm gonna do it and I

00:41:47.652 --> 00:41:50.227
did it and then I like had to build the
escape room and it was a ton of fun.

00:41:50.227 --> 00:41:53.959
Like, I had I think it was like
7,000 people, a little under 7,000

00:41:53.959 --> 00:41:55.274
people went through it in two years.

00:41:55.338 --> 00:41:56.328
It was, it was awesome.

00:41:56.328 --> 00:41:59.564
Like Steph Curry did my escape
room for his 30th birthday.

00:41:59.631 --> 00:42:00.785
One time I was doing it.

00:42:00.845 --> 00:42:04.577
And so I am my current job as CEO read me.

00:42:04.607 --> 00:42:08.185
And I was sitting there with my laptop and
I had a read me logo on my, on my laptop.

00:42:08.185 --> 00:42:11.255
And I'm sitting there working at
like 7:00 PM at this like, just job.

00:42:11.965 --> 00:42:14.897
And someone comes in like a team comes in
and I'm like, oh, hey, welcome everyone.

00:42:14.897 --> 00:42:15.827
And I do like this spiel and stuff.

00:42:15.827 --> 00:42:18.077
Cause like, we had someone who
ran it, but like, every once in a

00:42:18.077 --> 00:42:20.267
while, if they couldn't do it, I
would jump in or I actually down

00:42:20.267 --> 00:42:21.257
nights and weekends once in a while.

00:42:21.257 --> 00:42:23.537
Cause like then I could see what was
broken, what was working, and I could

00:42:23.542 --> 00:42:24.767
like, make tweaks and stuff like that.

00:42:24.767 --> 00:42:27.077
And I, I just didn't like, it
wasn't, it was something to do.

00:42:27.082 --> 00:42:28.547
And like, it's pretty
easy to Jo by the way.

00:42:28.547 --> 00:42:30.737
Like, you sit there, you like bring
people in, you spend two minutes with

00:42:30.737 --> 00:42:33.017
the spiel, they go in and then you just
have an hour basically where you're

00:42:33.017 --> 00:42:34.967
like, kind of watch them on the screen.

00:42:34.967 --> 00:42:36.017
You can like mess around,
do it whatever you want.

00:42:36.077 --> 00:42:39.527
So I do it, like I have my company
ReadMe logo on the, on the thing.

00:42:39.527 --> 00:42:42.229
And these like, it's like four or five
guys come in and they're like, whoa.

00:42:42.289 --> 00:42:43.159
Like, how do you gonna read me?

00:42:43.189 --> 00:42:45.207
And I was like, oh, I'm this is weird.

00:42:45.207 --> 00:42:46.241
But I'm like it's my company.

00:42:46.241 --> 00:42:46.931
I'm the founder.

00:42:46.961 --> 00:42:47.771
And they're like, oh.

00:42:49.406 --> 00:42:50.816
We, we invested in you.

00:42:51.116 --> 00:42:52.916
And I'm like, cuz they're VCs.

00:42:52.916 --> 00:42:54.026
Like they weren't my partner.

00:42:54.056 --> 00:42:56.186
So the way VCs firm works, there's
like, like a bunch of partners.

00:42:56.186 --> 00:42:58.196
So you meet like your partner and
like a few other people, but like,

00:42:58.196 --> 00:43:00.026
you don't meet most partners,
but they all know about you.

00:43:00.356 --> 00:43:02.816
And I'm like, oh, I swear
things are going well.

00:43:02.816 --> 00:43:03.386
This is like,

00:43:04.406 --> 00:43:05.816
This is, and they were totally fine.

00:43:05.816 --> 00:43:06.446
They loved it.

00:43:06.451 --> 00:43:07.496
They're like, we need to do a selfie.

00:43:07.501 --> 00:43:10.376
So like, we did a selfie of me
and my like, my little like polo

00:43:10.376 --> 00:43:11.546
shirt, that's a star escape.

00:43:11.576 --> 00:43:12.206
And like all of them.

00:43:12.206 --> 00:43:15.146
And they sent it to my partner and I
was like, this can go one of two ways.

00:43:15.151 --> 00:43:19.256
He's either gonna be like, cool or
he is gonna be like, all right, so

00:43:19.796 --> 00:43:24.310
you're working a, you're working an
hourly job now to make ends meet.

00:43:24.310 --> 00:43:25.210
And but now it was great.

00:43:25.210 --> 00:43:25.540
So,

00:43:25.740 --> 00:43:26.465
Matt: that's hilarious.

00:43:27.055 --> 00:43:27.365
Alright.

00:43:27.385 --> 00:43:28.714
So we gotta wrap up soon.

00:43:28.796 --> 00:43:30.056
I have a couple questions.

00:43:30.101 --> 00:43:30.311
Greg: Okay.

00:43:30.581 --> 00:43:31.001
Lightning round.

00:43:31.526 --> 00:43:31.676
Matt: Yeah.

00:43:31.736 --> 00:43:32.466
Lightning round.

00:43:32.496 --> 00:43:34.296
What tips for managers,

00:43:36.321 --> 00:43:37.895
Greg: Okay are you a new manager or not?

00:43:38.240 --> 00:43:39.860
Matt: Let's say you're,
it doesn't, let's say new.

00:43:40.170 --> 00:43:40.649
Greg: Okay.

00:43:40.649 --> 00:43:45.341
The biggest tip I have, so there's
obvious tips, which is like, care

00:43:45.341 --> 00:43:47.541
for your employees, listen to 'em,
have meetings and stuff like that.

00:43:47.541 --> 00:43:52.379
I think the biggest tip that I see that
I think that is that you have two teams.

00:43:52.379 --> 00:43:54.179
You have your team and the company.

00:43:54.299 --> 00:43:56.129
And what I mean by that is it's
not that the company matters.

00:43:56.129 --> 00:43:59.969
Like when I say company, I don't
mean like the Delaware C Corp in, you

00:43:59.969 --> 00:44:02.429
know, on a piece of paper in Delaware
where you're like, you're, we're all

00:44:02.429 --> 00:44:03.389
capitalists all trying to make money.

00:44:03.419 --> 00:44:04.049
That's what I mean.

00:44:04.049 --> 00:44:07.858
It's that the worst thing I think you can
do for your team is create an isolated

00:44:07.858 --> 00:44:11.480
environment where yeah, sure you're really
good to your team, but You know, you're

00:44:11.480 --> 00:44:13.610
kind of hurting your team because you,
they don't have the opportunities cause

00:44:13.830 --> 00:44:15.170
it's very isolated and stuff like that.

00:44:15.170 --> 00:44:17.720
So you need to really care about
your team and that's definitely

00:44:17.720 --> 00:44:18.510
your number one priority.

00:44:18.515 --> 00:44:22.517
But like, you also have a team of your
peers, so other managers your boss

00:44:22.517 --> 00:44:25.547
who maybe you don't like your boss and
that's totally fine, but at the end of

00:44:25.547 --> 00:44:29.117
the day, you, you, like, you, you have
to play ball with everyone around you.

00:44:29.122 --> 00:44:32.567
Cuz very rarely, like, unless you're
like a brilliant team of like,

00:44:32.807 --> 00:44:35.297
you know, such high performing
jerks that like it works out.

00:44:36.317 --> 00:44:37.067
It's very easy to create.

00:44:37.067 --> 00:44:40.577
Like it's a hard balance to create
that isolated culture where people

00:44:40.577 --> 00:44:44.402
like, feel like they're on a certain
team in a larger company but also get

00:44:44.402 --> 00:44:47.282
the chances and opportunities, you
know, from the rest of the company.

00:44:47.282 --> 00:44:50.552
So I think it's, it's a really hard
balance to both like care about the people

00:44:50.557 --> 00:44:54.272
below you, which everyone should do, but
also make sure that you care about like,

00:44:54.272 --> 00:44:56.882
the people to your side so that you're
not too isolated and you're not creating

00:44:56.882 --> 00:44:58.860
this like, weird island at a company.

00:44:58.860 --> 00:45:01.740
Because like, I don't know, if you worked
at a company where like there's like a

00:45:01.740 --> 00:45:04.560
team that's kind of an island and it's
like nothing gets in, nothing gets out,

00:45:04.560 --> 00:45:06.210
and it's like, I dunno what to do here.

00:45:06.319 --> 00:45:07.819
This, by the way, if anyone's
listening that works at Read Me,

00:45:07.819 --> 00:45:08.869
I'm not talking from experience.

00:45:08.869 --> 00:45:09.349
It rude me.

00:45:09.349 --> 00:45:11.449
Just like in my past, like at
Brazil and stuff like that, I

00:45:11.449 --> 00:45:14.749
used to see like, just different
teams would be like very isolated.

00:45:14.749 --> 00:45:17.989
It's like the, the manager's
job is to protect people but not

00:45:17.989 --> 00:45:20.869
protect 'em too much because you
still need like that in and out.

00:45:20.869 --> 00:45:23.179
Like it can't just be a like, like a like.

00:45:23.989 --> 00:45:25.099
Like a, what's the word I look for?

00:45:25.099 --> 00:45:27.739
Like a sealed like thing, cuz
that's not how companies work.

00:45:27.739 --> 00:45:31.219
Like even if, and I, you know, I'm
not a huge fan of capitalism per se,

00:45:31.219 --> 00:45:33.109
but like, even if you're like, I don't
care about like, capitalism in the

00:45:33.109 --> 00:45:34.069
company, making money, like all that.

00:45:34.069 --> 00:45:36.979
Like, you still kind of have to care
about other people in the company

00:45:36.979 --> 00:45:39.597
and like, you know, be a good place
to work or a good team to work with.

00:45:39.602 --> 00:45:41.037
So that's my answer.

00:45:41.997 --> 00:45:42.478
Matt: Okay.

00:45:42.493 --> 00:45:43.513
Do you think you.

00:45:44.863 --> 00:45:48.943
If you're going into like a computer
science programming or technical field,

00:45:48.943 --> 00:45:49.916
do you think you need to go to college?

00:45:49.919 --> 00:45:53.085
Greg: No, but you can't I'm,
you can't expect someone to

00:45:53.090 --> 00:45:53.727
teach you how to program.

00:45:53.727 --> 00:45:55.486
I don't think that you can
be taught how to program.

00:45:55.486 --> 00:45:56.536
I think you have to learn how to program.

00:45:56.610 --> 00:46:00.390
And I don't know exactly how you described
that, but like, you can spend, like,

00:46:00.390 --> 00:46:01.440
you and I took the exact same class.

00:46:01.440 --> 00:46:02.220
We went to college together.

00:46:02.220 --> 00:46:05.790
If you didn't get that, and like, there
are people who send the exact same

00:46:05.795 --> 00:46:09.060
classes that we did every single day
and like, gun to their head, couldn't

00:46:09.060 --> 00:46:10.020
write a line of code right now.

00:46:10.050 --> 00:46:12.480
Cuz like, it's one of those
things where like, yeah, could you

00:46:12.540 --> 00:46:13.680
like, can you pick up some stuff?

00:46:13.710 --> 00:46:14.340
Sure.

00:46:14.640 --> 00:46:17.325
But like, The problem with programming.

00:46:17.325 --> 00:46:19.215
So when we did programming,
it was not a lucrative career.

00:46:19.310 --> 00:46:20.690
Like it was, it was fine.

00:46:20.690 --> 00:46:21.800
Like none of us were worried about it.

00:46:21.800 --> 00:46:24.200
But like, it wasn't like, you know,
Silicon Valley wasn't what it is now.

00:46:24.200 --> 00:46:26.900
When we started in 2000, year
2007, I was thousand six, maybe

00:46:26.900 --> 00:46:27.620
year a little bit later, but

00:46:27.643 --> 00:46:27.958
yeah,

00:46:27.998 --> 00:46:30.628
And like, it wasn't a lucrative career
necessarily, and like by the time we

00:46:30.628 --> 00:46:32.788
like graduated it was like a lot better
and like, things were pretty good.

00:46:32.788 --> 00:46:35.536
But like the reason that was like,
you can't, but like, you can't just

00:46:35.536 --> 00:46:39.706
sit like there's other careers to get
into if you kind of wanna be taught

00:46:39.706 --> 00:46:40.576
and like learn stuff like that.

00:46:40.576 --> 00:46:41.896
Like you have to like to program.

00:46:41.896 --> 00:46:44.446
I think like, I'm not saying you have
to do it on nights and weekends every

00:46:44.446 --> 00:46:47.326
night and weekend, but you kind of
have to, especially early on, you

00:46:47.326 --> 00:46:48.296
have to build stuff to make stuff.

00:46:48.501 --> 00:46:49.156
You have to try stuff.

00:46:49.161 --> 00:46:52.246
Like, I don't believe that whether
there's a dev bootcamp and dev

00:46:52.246 --> 00:46:54.586
bootcamp's really cool because
they actually make you do projects.

00:46:54.586 --> 00:46:56.206
Like they, they, they know
that and they force that.

00:46:56.206 --> 00:46:58.486
Whereas like in school they don't
really like, it's like we did

00:46:58.486 --> 00:47:00.066
projects, but it was like homework.

00:47:00.071 --> 00:47:04.366
Whereas like, but you just have to like,
you have to commit to liking it and to

00:47:04.366 --> 00:47:08.446
doing it on nights and weekends or in your
own time and to really like it because

00:47:08.446 --> 00:47:11.881
like, otherwise it's uphill battle because
like, programming is not fun to do.

00:47:11.881 --> 00:47:12.811
I love it more than anything.

00:47:12.811 --> 00:47:13.411
It's fun for me.

00:47:13.411 --> 00:47:16.915
It's relaxing, but like, if you don't
like it, it's not fun, I don't think.

00:47:16.915 --> 00:47:17.218
Matt: Think, yeah,

00:47:17.593 --> 00:47:18.793
Greg: and you have to like be,
I think you just have to commit.

00:47:18.793 --> 00:47:21.613
So I don't think it matters if you
like teach yourself, you go to classes.

00:47:21.793 --> 00:47:25.513
I do think classes are nice because
like there's just a world of stuff.

00:47:25.513 --> 00:47:28.153
Like you need someone who's smarter
than you to like tell you what to do.

00:47:28.158 --> 00:47:31.153
And like a mentor would be great, but like
people don't have the ability to mentor.

00:47:31.153 --> 00:47:32.263
It's like really hard to be a mentor.

00:47:32.263 --> 00:47:34.273
So like, you know, dev
bootcamp is basically you're

00:47:34.273 --> 00:47:35.402
paying for a mentor almost.

00:47:35.472 --> 00:47:36.582
So I think the answer is definitely no.

00:47:36.582 --> 00:47:38.892
And if I didn't go to college at all,
I think it would've totally been fine.

00:47:38.892 --> 00:47:40.872
Cause like I learned how to
program my own, but like, I think

00:47:40.872 --> 00:47:42.402
you need to want to program.

00:47:42.402 --> 00:47:44.892
And if you don't, there's a ton
of other really phenomenal careers

00:47:44.892 --> 00:47:47.496
out there that you're gonna have a
lot less of enough help battle on.

00:47:48.286 --> 00:47:51.216
Matt: I think at RIT there was a
lot of people who were like, sort

00:47:51.221 --> 00:47:52.506
of self taught before they came.

00:47:52.506 --> 00:47:52.776
Yeah.

00:47:52.896 --> 00:47:53.886
That was my feeling.

00:47:53.886 --> 00:47:54.186
Yep.

00:47:54.306 --> 00:47:54.606
Yeah.

00:47:54.666 --> 00:47:57.281
Greg: And I don't some of the best
programmers I know, by the way, went

00:47:57.281 --> 00:48:01.181
to college and you know, learned on,
like, learned like their first line of

00:48:01.181 --> 00:48:02.411
code they ever wrote was in a class.

00:48:02.471 --> 00:48:03.561
And they're phenomenal.

00:48:03.566 --> 00:48:05.891
Like, that doesn't mean that if you
didn't know how to program before.

00:48:06.161 --> 00:48:06.341
Yeah.

00:48:06.521 --> 00:48:08.051
But you have to like it.

00:48:08.051 --> 00:48:09.371
And you have to like, be curious.

00:48:09.461 --> 00:48:10.481
You have to like, want to learn.

00:48:10.481 --> 00:48:13.991
Like, no matter how good the
teacher is, there's only so much

00:48:13.991 --> 00:48:15.311
that you'll get out that teacher.

00:48:15.311 --> 00:48:18.401
Like, you need to be the one, like,
not forever, like I haven't, I don't

00:48:18.401 --> 00:48:21.221
read blog posts or anything like that
anymore, but like, you have to like

00:48:21.641 --> 00:48:24.311
be curious and like, you know, I'm
trying to think like, cause I can't

00:48:24.316 --> 00:48:25.361
even give like prescribed stuff.

00:48:25.361 --> 00:48:27.671
Cause like anytime I say anything
it's like, okay, go to this website.

00:48:27.676 --> 00:48:28.301
Like, that's not what I mean.

00:48:28.301 --> 00:48:31.061
Like, you just have to like, be like,
I wonder if I could fix that and do it.

00:48:31.066 --> 00:48:33.761
Like, you have to have that
mindset of like, I'm gonna solve

00:48:33.761 --> 00:48:37.331
it and then like, and like just
brute force your way through it.

00:48:37.331 --> 00:48:37.931
And it takes time.

00:48:37.931 --> 00:48:39.641
It takes a lot of time,
which is really tough.

00:48:40.211 --> 00:48:42.731
Matt: well, just to add to that,
a lot of the, a lot of really good

00:48:42.736 --> 00:48:45.741
programmers that I know didn't
study computer science or anything.

00:48:45.801 --> 00:48:49.251
They got into programming after they
were like architects before or whatever,

00:48:49.311 --> 00:48:51.801
you know, like, they're like, I wanna
be an architect, or I wanna be a doctor.

00:48:51.801 --> 00:48:52.371
I wanna be a lawyer.

00:48:52.371 --> 00:48:54.081
And then they're like, got naco
and they're like, I love this.

00:48:54.081 --> 00:48:54.171
Yeah.

00:48:54.681 --> 00:48:55.791
And they're amazing.

00:48:56.001 --> 00:48:56.271
Yeah.

00:48:56.331 --> 00:48:56.661
Yeah.

00:48:56.679 --> 00:48:57.178
Alright.

00:48:57.838 --> 00:48:58.228
Okay.

00:48:58.888 --> 00:48:59.848
Pineapple on pizza.

00:49:00.888 --> 00:49:01.378
Greg: Yeah.

00:49:02.608 --> 00:49:05.608
Not my top 10 choice, but like, I like it.

00:49:05.728 --> 00:49:05.908
You're

00:49:05.998 --> 00:49:06.398
Matt: okay with it?

00:49:06.398 --> 00:49:06.638
Yeah.

00:49:06.718 --> 00:49:07.168
Okay.

00:49:07.768 --> 00:49:08.848
You can't go to Italy now.

00:49:09.478 --> 00:49:09.748
Greg: That's okay.

00:49:12.068 --> 00:49:13.528
I, I mean, I don't love it, but like,

00:49:14.278 --> 00:49:14.668
I like it.

00:49:14.998 --> 00:49:15.388
I don't like it.

00:49:15.388 --> 00:49:15.718
I'll eat it.

00:49:15.778 --> 00:49:16.588
Like I'm very happy.

00:49:16.588 --> 00:49:16.828
Eat it.

00:49:16.828 --> 00:49:18.568
It's like I don't, I'm not a picky person.

00:49:18.748 --> 00:49:19.168
Matt: Yeah.

00:49:19.468 --> 00:49:19.828
Okay.

00:49:19.834 --> 00:49:20.705
What are you most excited about?

00:49:20.710 --> 00:49:22.060
Greg: Now I'm getting
hungry cuz of that question.

00:49:22.060 --> 00:49:23.818
So I think I'm gonna order of
pineapple pizza after this.

00:49:23.818 --> 00:49:24.936
What am I most excited about?

00:49:24.936 --> 00:49:25.164
Okay.

00:49:25.164 --> 00:49:26.385
And this is a very tech answer.

00:49:26.414 --> 00:49:28.844
Also like if you're watching the
video, it's gotten increasingly dark.

00:49:28.844 --> 00:49:30.264
We're just sitting in
the dark at this point.

00:49:30.268 --> 00:49:31.864
But there's a lot things
I'm excited about.

00:49:31.961 --> 00:49:33.251
Cuz I mentioned before
about the curiosity.

00:49:33.256 --> 00:49:36.821
Like that's my favorite quality
in people and in myself is just

00:49:36.826 --> 00:49:40.451
like, The ability to like just
constantly be excited about stuff.

00:49:40.498 --> 00:49:42.520
And for me, this is a very tech one.

00:49:43.225 --> 00:49:47.395
I started ReadMe seven or eight years
ago, I picked like Angular 1.2 cuz it was,

00:49:47.395 --> 00:49:50.395
you know, react wasn't quite where I, I
didn't, whatever, it doesn't really matter

00:49:50.395 --> 00:49:55.016
why, but like Webpac it was really hard to
like get react set up cuz like Webpac was

00:49:55.021 --> 00:49:56.846
like, if it existed, it wasn't very good.

00:49:56.851 --> 00:49:58.856
It's still not very good, but like,
it was just tough to get all set up.

00:49:58.856 --> 00:50:00.926
So I went with Angular and it was the
biggest mistake of my life probably.

00:50:00.926 --> 00:50:03.806
But, so I started writing code, so then
I got to this like route where I was

00:50:03.806 --> 00:50:06.386
like, do you remember like when we were
in school, I know these are lighting

00:50:06.386 --> 00:50:09.273
rounds, but I'm going along you can
edit this later, but you know, in, you

00:50:09.273 --> 00:50:10.323
know, in school where like you'd meet

00:50:10.338 --> 00:50:11.478
Matt: I don't think I
can make you talk any

00:50:11.603 --> 00:50:11.883
Greg: faster.

00:50:12.403 --> 00:50:12.963
right?

00:50:12.963 --> 00:50:14.843
So, you know, in school
you're meeting someone I

00:50:15.428 --> 00:50:16.188
Matt: m take it easy eminem

00:50:16.243 --> 00:50:19.153
Greg: You know, in school when you'd
meet someone who's like really old,

00:50:19.153 --> 00:50:21.954
like they were like 30 you know,
we're like in school and like, they're

00:50:21.954 --> 00:50:24.234
like, they're like still using like
an old Java framework and you're

00:50:24.234 --> 00:50:25.164
like, I will never be like that.

00:50:25.164 --> 00:50:27.474
I'll never get lazy
and like stop learning.

00:50:27.534 --> 00:50:30.924
And then like now I'm still using
like tech from like 10 years ago.

00:50:30.929 --> 00:50:34.974
I'm still using Express and like the
exact same like setup that I used

00:50:35.019 --> 00:50:35.739
Matt: Express no longer.

00:50:35.739 --> 00:50:36.129
Cool.

00:50:36.129 --> 00:50:36.519
Like what?

00:50:36.519 --> 00:50:37.159
Greg: No, God no.

00:50:37.159 --> 00:50:37.842
I mean, I still like it.

00:50:37.842 --> 00:50:40.422
I still use it for stuff, but like,
I kinda like jQuery, I use jQuery.

00:50:40.442 --> 00:50:42.062
I still use jQuery  for everything.

00:50:43.022 --> 00:50:44.342
I love jQuery, but that's not the point.

00:50:45.002 --> 00:50:46.432
Matt: does John sig still use jQuery?

00:50:46.452 --> 00:50:47.462
Greg: No, of course not.

00:50:47.558 --> 00:50:51.338
So where I'm going with this is like
my, basically without talking about

00:50:51.338 --> 00:50:55.268
specific technologies, I feel like my,
like the, I, when I wanted to write

00:50:55.268 --> 00:50:56.648
code, I didn't wanna learn anymore.

00:50:56.648 --> 00:50:59.378
I just wanted to like, use my tech
stack I knew and just be comfortable.

00:50:59.468 --> 00:51:02.558
And like, I did that for like three,
four or five years past 3, 4, 5 years.

00:51:02.558 --> 00:51:05.048
And like just recently I've
kind of flipped like, okay,

00:51:05.288 --> 00:51:06.668
I wanna like try new stuff.

00:51:06.673 --> 00:51:08.768
Cause like, when you're trying to
get something done, you don't wanna

00:51:08.773 --> 00:51:09.998
learn new technology at the same time.

00:51:09.998 --> 00:51:11.558
And now I'm like, I wanna
like learn new technology.

00:51:11.558 --> 00:51:15.758
And I, I started using like Next and
like, it's just a breath of fresh air.

00:51:15.788 --> 00:51:17.408
Like there's some stuff I don't
like about it, I could complain,

00:51:17.408 --> 00:51:22.748
but it's like, okay, it's such a
nice time to be programming it.

00:51:22.748 --> 00:51:26.768
Just like for the first time
ever using next, like using.

00:51:27.278 --> 00:51:30.518
A framework that was built by someone
who's actually made a website before.

00:51:30.668 --> 00:51:33.668
Because like, it's like if you use it,
and again, I'm not gonna check trash

00:51:33.668 --> 00:51:36.308
other stuff, but like you use, like, you
know, I've been,  is my first language.

00:51:36.308 --> 00:51:38.318
Like a lot of these were like
people who like understood

00:51:38.678 --> 00:51:40.388
computers enough to bridge the gap.

00:51:40.388 --> 00:51:41.708
So a human being can understand it.

00:51:42.098 --> 00:51:44.888
But like now it's like, but like
it always felt like you were like

00:51:44.888 --> 00:51:46.088
speaking the computers language.

00:51:46.088 --> 00:51:48.308
So you're like, you know, like
you're trying to do something

00:51:48.308 --> 00:51:50.138
that's like, oh, well that's a put,
or that's a poster, that's a get.

00:51:50.138 --> 00:51:53.348
And it was like, you're like thinking of
these like, like how computers think and

00:51:53.353 --> 00:51:54.908
like you get really good at that, right?

00:51:54.913 --> 00:51:55.418
At some point.

00:51:55.718 --> 00:51:59.198
Or like, jQuery, while Query is
great, like jQuery is like, okay,

00:51:59.203 --> 00:52:02.108
how do I make the dom, which is,
you know, built for computers,

00:52:02.113 --> 00:52:03.698
easier to use, easier to access.

00:52:03.698 --> 00:52:05.108
Like, it's like shorthand
at the end of the day.

00:52:05.108 --> 00:52:07.598
Like, and like then you look at
React and it's like, oh, this person

00:52:07.598 --> 00:52:09.638
like, built a lot of websites.

00:52:09.643 --> 00:52:10.478
Whoever, I mean, sorry.

00:52:10.718 --> 00:52:13.658
Like the people like, you know, working
on Next, like, it's like this person

00:52:13.663 --> 00:52:16.508
like built a lot of websites and when
they sat down they weren't like sort,

00:52:16.508 --> 00:52:18.498
go back to like the the ignorance,
like the intentional ignorance.

00:52:18.498 --> 00:52:22.488
It's like, it's like, okay,
they built something that was.

00:52:22.893 --> 00:52:24.693
You know, made for
people who make websites.

00:52:24.744 --> 00:52:27.652
The one that I love, and this is
very controversial here at Readme,

00:52:27.652 --> 00:52:29.782
like people, like this is probably
the closest thing to a fight.

00:52:29.812 --> 00:52:30.472
Pineapple pizza.

00:52:30.502 --> 00:52:32.783
This is the pineapple pizza
of of WebDev is tailwind.

00:52:33.203 --> 00:52:34.373
I love Tailwind.

00:52:34.373 --> 00:52:34.703
Tailwind.

00:52:34.703 --> 00:52:36.083
Like, it.

00:52:36.353 --> 00:52:36.533
It's,

00:52:36.533 --> 00:52:37.433
It's, delightful.

00:52:38.243 --> 00:52:39.653
And some people hate it.

00:52:39.653 --> 00:52:40.283
Some people love it.

00:52:40.283 --> 00:52:43.073
But like, again, that's the, like,
the, like nothing about Tawan should

00:52:43.073 --> 00:52:45.653
work because when I first saw Tailwind,
I was like, this is the worst.

00:52:45.653 --> 00:52:48.293
It's like CSS, inside html, like

00:52:48.323 --> 00:52:50.333
Matt: it's 47 style or classes.

00:52:50.463 --> 00:52:50.953
Greg: Yeah.

00:52:50.953 --> 00:52:53.603
And like, this is horrible,
but like, it's delightful.

00:52:53.608 --> 00:52:55.043
And I love it more than anything.

00:52:55.043 --> 00:52:56.303
Like, it's just, it's so nice.

00:52:56.308 --> 00:52:59.633
And like when I build a full
site with it, I don't know.

00:52:59.843 --> 00:53:02.693
But when I build a, like a marketing
site or I build, like, you know,

00:53:02.693 --> 00:53:05.653
most of my projects now, like
now I go back to writing old css.

00:53:05.653 --> 00:53:06.563
I'm like, I hate this.

00:53:06.568 --> 00:53:07.273
Like, I just miss tailwind.

00:53:07.273 --> 00:53:08.243
I just wanna let be to write my little

00:53:08.273 --> 00:53:08.723
Matt: yeah.

00:53:08.783 --> 00:53:13.107
See I, I've, there's like this there's
like this bell curve and there's like,

00:53:13.167 --> 00:53:14.367
there's like a meme associated with it.

00:53:14.367 --> 00:53:18.087
It's like, it's like, you know,
hoodie, hoodie, programmer at

00:53:18.087 --> 00:53:20.277
the bottom at the beginning and
then hoodie program at the end.

00:53:20.282 --> 00:53:22.317
And then there's like all this
stuff happening at the top.

00:53:22.377 --> 00:53:24.597
And I was stuck at the
top for so many things.

00:53:24.597 --> 00:53:27.867
Like, you spend so much time
contemplating what do I use to build this?

00:53:27.867 --> 00:53:29.247
What do I do this, this, this,
that, and the other thing.

00:53:29.247 --> 00:53:31.407
And it's like this easy
thing, all the complex things

00:53:31.407 --> 00:53:32.667
like, oh, this one's faster.

00:53:32.667 --> 00:53:33.987
It's like better, you know, whatever.

00:53:33.987 --> 00:53:35.007
More efficient, you know.

00:53:35.127 --> 00:53:37.557
And then there's like back to
originally like the easy thing and

00:53:37.557 --> 00:53:38.577
that's like the master programmer.

00:53:38.577 --> 00:53:42.537
And I feel like I, you know, if you
look at the top apps in the app store,

00:53:42.537 --> 00:53:46.587
for example, and all my iOS like
developer friends are gonna hate me

00:53:46.587 --> 00:53:49.917
saying this, but I think it's true,
most of 'em aren't actually native.

00:53:50.397 --> 00:53:50.852
Greg: Yeah.

00:53:51.627 --> 00:53:55.677
Matt: No one, no one who's rating at five
Stars cares if your app's native or not.

00:53:55.707 --> 00:53:58.797
They care if it solves the problem for
you and that's all they care about.

00:53:58.857 --> 00:53:59.037
Mm-hmm.

00:53:59.327 --> 00:54:03.747
and I started personally, like I went
through that like journey of like, oh,

00:54:03.747 --> 00:54:06.507
I gotta build all this stuff, like the
hard, the hard way because it's better,

00:54:06.507 --> 00:54:09.627
but it, but it like didn't make me
feel better, actually made me feel like

00:54:09.627 --> 00:54:13.167
more stressed and worse and I act and,
you know, building this stuff, even

00:54:13.167 --> 00:54:17.133
if it is old tech or if it's you know,
sort of like boring tech or whatever.

00:54:17.133 --> 00:54:19.353
If it works and it's easier
and to have a good developer

00:54:19.353 --> 00:54:21.303
experience, like I'm all for it.

00:54:21.333 --> 00:54:23.283
Cuz no one at the end of
the day is gonna care.

00:54:23.523 --> 00:54:26.253
Like no one cares that GitHub is written
in Ruby on Rails unless you work on it.

00:54:26.258 --> 00:54:26.753
Right.

00:54:27.123 --> 00:54:28.023
It's huge.

00:54:28.188 --> 00:54:30.408
Greg: Or unless you're a hacker trying
to like overload methods what they

00:54:30.513 --> 00:54:31.473
Matt: sure, sure, sure.

00:54:31.473 --> 00:54:34.143
But you know what I'm saying, like nobody
cares what your thing is written in.

00:54:34.233 --> 00:54:34.353
Yeah.

00:54:34.413 --> 00:54:36.153
All they care is like, does
it solve the problem for them?

00:54:36.153 --> 00:54:37.473
Does it like make their life better?

00:54:37.623 --> 00:54:38.253
That's it.

00:54:38.583 --> 00:54:41.913
So my advice, I guess, if this is advice.

00:54:43.008 --> 00:54:43.788
Don't get stuck in that.

00:54:43.788 --> 00:54:46.038
Sort of like the paradox of
choice of what do I need to use?

00:54:46.043 --> 00:54:48.138
Just like, just just build stuff, right?

00:54:48.138 --> 00:54:49.228
Build stuff that solves problems.

00:54:49.278 --> 00:54:49.518
Greg: Yeah.

00:54:49.538 --> 00:54:52.998
I'm a, I'm a huge fan of like, so
like, for a while, like to your

00:54:52.998 --> 00:54:54.678
point, like whenever, be like,
what's your favorite language?

00:54:54.678 --> 00:54:56.178
Be like right tool for the right job.

00:54:56.178 --> 00:54:58.778
And now it's like, eh,
everything's turing complete.

00:54:58.783 --> 00:55:00.618
Like I'm just gonna use it every simple.

00:55:00.623 --> 00:55:03.348
Like, why I try to like spin up
like, you know, 18 different things

00:55:03.348 --> 00:55:06.798
that like to get things right
cuz like it's, it goes out of it.

00:55:06.798 --> 00:55:08.268
And like, that's a tough
thing to say though.

00:55:08.273 --> 00:55:10.908
Cause like at the same time though,
I don't think you should be like,

00:55:11.418 --> 00:55:14.982
You know SSH into your FTP server
in order to upload your PHP files.

00:55:14.982 --> 00:55:17.322
Like if you're using modern day php,
it's, I've heard it's pretty good at

00:55:17.322 --> 00:55:19.722
this point, but like, there is like,
there is something to be said too for

00:55:19.722 --> 00:55:23.502
like, you know, keeping up a little bit
because it's like you have to maintain it.

00:55:23.579 --> 00:55:25.169
You like, so there's
like stuff like that too.

00:55:25.169 --> 00:55:27.149
It's like, I think there's a distinction
between, you're not saying you're

00:55:27.149 --> 00:55:31.409
not a letter, you're not saying, you
know, I learned PHP back in 2007 and

00:55:31.409 --> 00:55:32.999
I am doing that till the day I die.

00:55:33.539 --> 00:55:37.072
You're saying that like you're saying
that like, you know, you also don't have

00:55:37.072 --> 00:55:38.212
to like always be chasing the cool stuff.

00:55:38.212 --> 00:55:40.882
Like, I think like, what I'm really
excited about, so to answer like the

00:55:40.882 --> 00:55:43.252
question, like, what I'm really excited
about is like, I think we've gotten to

00:55:43.257 --> 00:55:45.792
this point where like, there's always that
like you know, like the, like any sort

00:55:45.792 --> 00:55:46.962
of like, like innovation stuff like that.

00:55:46.962 --> 00:55:50.889
But any sort of like or like the, like
adoption what's the, like the ludite?

00:55:50.889 --> 00:55:52.349
The No, what's the laggard?

00:55:52.349 --> 00:55:53.699
Like what's that thing?

00:55:53.724 --> 00:55:54.214
Matt: Yeah.

00:55:54.524 --> 00:55:56.234
You mean the cross, like
the the chasm across?

00:55:56.292 --> 00:55:59.052
Greg: No, we're just like saying
buzzword at this point, but it's like

00:55:59.052 --> 00:56:00.436
Matt: yeah, you want more buzzwords,

00:56:00.871 --> 00:56:02.731
Greg: but like, it's basically
like the way people adopt stuff.

00:56:02.731 --> 00:56:03.871
Like there's something really fun

00:56:03.916 --> 00:56:05.026
Matt: like early adopters,

00:56:05.191 --> 00:56:06.991
Greg: Adopters, laggards
is the, yeah, but whatever.

00:56:06.991 --> 00:56:12.901
So I forgot the graph, but like Matt's
going to buzz in here with a post recorded

00:56:12.902 --> 00:56:15.531
thing where he says what this is called
this, this thing I'm trying to think of.

00:56:15.531 --> 00:56:17.901
But Yeah, so I think there's like,
there is something kind of cool

00:56:17.901 --> 00:56:21.411
about watching that, like, that
funny cause like will Tailwind be

00:56:21.411 --> 00:56:22.491
what we're writing in five years?

00:56:22.491 --> 00:56:25.611
I have genuinely no clue, but
like, whatever it is, we'll

00:56:25.881 --> 00:56:27.081
have learned something from it.

00:56:27.081 --> 00:56:27.321
I do.

00:56:27.321 --> 00:56:27.861
That's kind of cool.

00:56:27.861 --> 00:56:32.481
It's like I, I'm not saying that I would
start my new startup with the coolest

00:56:32.486 --> 00:56:36.501
of new technologies, but like on the
side it's fun to like spend something

00:56:36.501 --> 00:56:38.211
up and play with it and like, you know,

00:56:39.191 --> 00:56:43.691
say what I like and don't like cuz like
that dislike of stuff, like also informs

00:56:43.691 --> 00:56:46.991
like, very few people do something that's
kind of semi-popular without there being

00:56:46.996 --> 00:56:48.431
a threat of something interesting in it.

00:56:48.491 --> 00:56:51.341
And ultimate happens is the
trade offs become too much.

00:56:51.341 --> 00:56:54.821
Like, and 1.2 I complained about it
before, and you 1.2 is phenomenal because

00:56:54.821 --> 00:56:58.694
all of a sudden like You know, it, it
was like, it, it just flipped how I

00:56:58.694 --> 00:56:59.864
thought about programming completely.

00:56:59.864 --> 00:57:01.844
J qu was like, you were like
constantly modifying the do and

00:57:01.844 --> 00:57:05.264
like it was like html so became
like a programming language almost.

00:57:05.264 --> 00:57:06.374
Like I loved it.

00:57:06.494 --> 00:57:08.714
And like there's something
really beautiful about that.

00:57:08.744 --> 00:57:11.534
Now the problem was that the trade off
was that the maintainability was too hard.

00:57:11.534 --> 00:57:14.024
Like, you know, variables
coming from, it was slow.

00:57:14.029 --> 00:57:15.974
Like there was like 50 things
that were wrong with it.

00:57:16.214 --> 00:57:18.824
But like, there's something
so fascinating with the way it

00:57:18.824 --> 00:57:20.444
flipped how I looked at everything.

00:57:20.744 --> 00:57:23.414
Cause at the end of the way, this is
gonna be really nuanced, bear with me.

00:57:23.504 --> 00:57:25.454
Probably not for the end of the
podcast, but like there's this

00:57:25.454 --> 00:57:26.853
concept of turning completeness.

00:57:26.869 --> 00:57:28.939
So turning completeness is
basically if a language is turning

00:57:28.939 --> 00:57:31.819
complete to like really kind of
simplify it, it's that it can.

00:57:32.404 --> 00:57:35.224
Basically do anything that any
other programming language can do.

00:57:35.224 --> 00:57:37.684
Like, if it's turning complete,
it means that, you know, it all

00:57:37.684 --> 00:57:39.364
gets compiled down to binary.

00:57:39.364 --> 00:57:42.994
And like any turning, complete language
can technically do anything that any

00:57:42.994 --> 00:57:46.054
other turning complete language can do to
kind of like simplify and boil it down.

00:57:46.054 --> 00:57:50.374
So at the end of the day, whether you're
writing angular, I'm writing Java, you're

00:57:50.379 --> 00:57:55.204
writing php, whatever, like it all just,
you know, boils down to zeros and ones.

00:57:55.204 --> 00:57:56.854
So you can do everything
with each language.

00:57:57.094 --> 00:57:58.714
It's just harder to do some things.

00:57:58.752 --> 00:57:59.622
A lot harder.

00:57:59.772 --> 00:58:02.802
Almost impossible cuz like, you know,
there's like other stuff like, you know,

00:58:02.802 --> 00:58:04.347
you can't look PHP on a iPhone like that.

00:58:04.482 --> 00:58:05.082
There's like stuff like that.

00:58:05.087 --> 00:58:06.642
But you could, cuz it's all running.

00:58:06.672 --> 00:58:09.522
Like it's all you could, and
when I'm going with this is like

00:58:10.244 --> 00:58:12.702
you're, you can do anything with anything.

00:58:13.212 --> 00:58:13.722
It's just,

00:58:13.722 --> 00:58:16.072
it's more of like the
ui, the dx on top of it.

00:58:16.072 --> 00:58:18.387
Like what's easy and like what's
you know, easy to do and what's

00:58:18.387 --> 00:58:20.577
harder to do, like what are you
fighting against and stuff like that.

00:58:20.577 --> 00:58:23.727
And like, there's something kind of nice
about realizing, like any technology

00:58:23.732 --> 00:58:25.287
you pick, you can do anything you want.

00:58:25.527 --> 00:58:26.607
You just wanna like, you

00:58:26.612 --> 00:58:27.267
know, kind of like

00:58:27.297 --> 00:58:31.887
find that perspective where like, you
know, PHP and JavaScript, if you were

00:58:31.887 --> 00:58:34.497
to like see the compiled code, you
couldn't tell me which one was which

00:58:34.497 --> 00:58:36.927
cuz no one could like, I mean, you
could, but like, you couldn't tell me

00:58:36.927 --> 00:58:39.027
by just looking at, it's just zeros and
ones and there's no way to really know.

00:58:39.027 --> 00:58:40.047
It's like the server doesn't care.

00:58:40.047 --> 00:58:42.567
The server has no clue what
language you're building with.

00:58:42.567 --> 00:58:46.947
And like, again, they def like, and we're,
so we're stacking things on top of things.

00:58:46.952 --> 00:58:47.547
On top of things.

00:58:47.547 --> 00:58:50.757
Like if you're doing, you know, react,
you're doing reactor compiles into,

00:58:50.757 --> 00:58:54.874
you know, type script compiles, j j
JSX, that all compiles into JavaScript,

00:58:54.994 --> 00:58:57.454
which is compiled into like, and
just, I don't even know at this point.

00:58:57.454 --> 00:58:59.674
Like what it compiles into is like
different run times to different stuff.

00:58:59.679 --> 00:59:01.504
And like, it's, it's so fascinating to me.

00:59:01.504 --> 00:59:02.164
Like it's, it is.

00:59:02.809 --> 00:59:03.439
Ergonomical.

00:59:03.439 --> 00:59:04.999
It's not just, you know,
you can do anything.

00:59:05.179 --> 00:59:06.919
It's not like they're inventing
new stuff at this point.

00:59:06.919 --> 00:59:09.019
Like everything you can do
has been kind of invented.

00:59:09.019 --> 00:59:11.419
It's just like, how do
you make it easier to do?

00:59:11.419 --> 00:59:15.739
Like, I kind of feel like this is like
a weird way to like end this argument.

00:59:15.744 --> 00:59:17.659
But like, Matt's my new office right now.

00:59:17.685 --> 00:59:20.715
We've been in this office like three
years and like we had another office

00:59:20.715 --> 00:59:23.085
that was like downstairs and right
around the corner, so it's like the

00:59:23.085 --> 00:59:24.615
same city block, just like around.

00:59:24.975 --> 00:59:28.725
And like when we moved offices, my
like experience was so different.

00:59:28.725 --> 00:59:31.455
Like we're still within walking
distance of almost the same stuff,

00:59:31.665 --> 00:59:34.875
but like my perspective just shifted
on like, oh, okay, like I didn't

00:59:34.875 --> 00:59:36.975
notice this restaurant over here
or like, this restaurant's easier.

00:59:37.005 --> 00:59:39.225
Or like, this coffee shop's easier to
get to cause I didn't have to cross

00:59:39.225 --> 00:59:40.395
the street here and stuff like that.

00:59:40.395 --> 00:59:43.095
And like, it just, even though I like
didn't go very far, it like completely

00:59:43.095 --> 00:59:43.875
changed how I think about stuff.

00:59:43.875 --> 00:59:45.555
And I feel like that's what
programming languages can be like.

00:59:46.635 --> 00:59:48.275
And you do the same stuff, but you
get a different perspective and

00:59:48.275 --> 00:59:50.805
like all of a sudden it's like, oh,
that's easy to do because like I

00:59:50.805 --> 00:59:52.035
can do it now and stuff like that.

00:59:52.035 --> 00:59:54.675
So that's my long rambly answer to

00:59:54.765 --> 00:59:56.985
Matt: programming languages
are like moving offices.

00:59:57.015 --> 00:59:58.545
Greg: I dunno what the question
was at the beginning, but

00:59:58.755 --> 01:00:00.065
Matt: It was What are you excited about

01:00:01.185 --> 01:00:04.952
Greg: I am excited about I'm excited to
make websites now like, because it's just

01:00:05.192 --> 01:00:06.452
a great time to be starting something.

01:00:06.452 --> 01:00:09.422
Like it's a great time to start a
new project because like next is so

01:00:09.422 --> 01:00:10.562
good and it's just getting better.

01:00:10.742 --> 01:00:11.552
Matt: Have you tried remix?

01:00:12.442 --> 01:00:13.918
Greg: No, but did you did you say it?

01:00:13.918 --> 01:00:15.993
Cause like when I walked in
here everyone else I was looking

01:00:15.993 --> 01:00:17.223
at remix on their web, on

01:00:17.223 --> 01:00:17.343
Matt: their

01:00:17.433 --> 01:00:19.923
Oh, I, I've, I've
rebuilt Pickle and remix.

01:00:19.923 --> 01:00:20.703
I've been using it a lot.

01:00:20.703 --> 01:00:21.213
I love it.

01:00:21.303 --> 01:00:21.933
Yeah, I love it.

01:00:22.023 --> 01:00:22.923
Greg: I mean, I don't
really care if it's next.

01:00:22.923 --> 01:00:23.523
It doesn't have to be next.

01:00:23.523 --> 01:00:26.583
Like next is just one of my, and
again, I don't think, I don't wanna

01:00:26.583 --> 01:00:30.003
like say next is not gonna be around
five years, but like, statistically

01:00:30.003 --> 01:00:33.153
speaking, it's not what from five years
ago, like, are we still really like

01:00:33.153 --> 01:00:35.463
loving, not using Sure, but like loving

01:00:35.613 --> 01:00:37.533
Matt: what that has, what has
JavaScript in it that's still

01:00:37.533 --> 01:00:38.493
around from five years ago?

01:00:40.413 --> 01:00:40.773
new thing.

01:00:41.113 --> 01:00:41.463
Js

01:00:41.553 --> 01:00:41.793
Greg: I mean,

01:00:41.793 --> 01:00:44.494
I still use stuff from five years ago,
but I'm not the best the best example.

01:00:44.494 --> 01:00:44.764
But,

01:00:44.884 --> 01:00:45.544
Matt: but you know what I'm saying?

01:00:45.549 --> 01:00:48.504
Like, there's a new thing, there's a
new cool thing every, all, all the time.

01:00:48.585 --> 01:00:48.754
Greg: time.

01:00:49.024 --> 01:00:51.934
So I'm just really excited about this
like paradigm where like, like building

01:00:51.934 --> 01:00:56.434
tools for like, just like this new layer
of like DX on top of stuff get me really

01:00:56.434 --> 01:00:57.799
excited I think whatever that means.

01:00:57.799 --> 01:00:58.729
Like this new way of thinking about

01:00:58.729 --> 01:00:59.299
stuff.

01:00:59.299 --> 01:00:59.749
Matt: Developer experience.

01:00:59.874 --> 01:01:00.209
Yeah.

01:01:00.219 --> 01:01:00.569
So.

01:01:01.369 --> 01:01:03.231
Greg: I dunno if that was I dunno if
you wanted me to say like, there's

01:01:03.231 --> 01:01:05.482
a new coffee shop that I like
or something like that, but I'm.

01:01:06.307 --> 01:01:08.827
I'd rather like burst again where
I'm like back to like learning new

01:01:08.827 --> 01:01:11.347
stuff and like, I'm like, this is
such a great time to be learning new

01:01:11.697 --> 01:01:13.337
Matt: I don't think you
should stop learning stuff.

01:01:13.379 --> 01:01:13.889
Greg: Agreed.

01:01:13.889 --> 01:01:17.963
But I think like the, the web dev,
like the web world over the past

01:01:17.963 --> 01:01:20.063
five years, like you remember those
like memes from like five years ago.

01:01:20.063 --> 01:01:22.313
Like, this is how you get started
with JavaScript and it's like you

01:01:22.313 --> 01:01:24.773
have to compile through Babel es
and like, there's so many stuff.

01:01:24.773 --> 01:01:29.093
And like that sucked, but it pushed
everything forward where like

01:01:29.093 --> 01:01:32.213
things happened, JavaScript got
better, type script got better.

01:01:32.266 --> 01:01:33.190
Next became a thing.

01:01:33.195 --> 01:01:35.050
Like so much thing like React got better.

01:01:35.050 --> 01:01:37.030
Like React was not great when it started.

01:01:37.035 --> 01:01:37.630
It wasn't bad.

01:01:37.635 --> 01:01:40.630
There was like cool ideas in it, but
like Angular and React in my mind were

01:01:40.630 --> 01:01:44.050
pretty similar as far as having cool
ideas, but like one built and iterate

01:01:44.050 --> 01:01:46.060
and like did something really cool of,
and like, my point there is like, you

01:01:46.060 --> 01:01:51.100
know, you should never stop learning,
but like, sometimes it's, sometimes like,

01:01:52.360 --> 01:01:52.720
I think

01:01:52.720 --> 01:01:56.380
web dev, I think like program in general
like goes back and forth as a pendulum.

01:01:56.380 --> 01:01:58.180
Like it goes like, you know, very liberal.

01:01:58.180 --> 01:02:01.760
Like it's, it's You know, it doesn't
compile like just on the fly,

01:02:01.760 --> 01:02:03.200
everything's magical and all that.

01:02:03.440 --> 01:02:06.081
And then it gets hardened and hardened
and hardened as people like Ed, like

01:02:06.260 --> 01:02:08.960
layer like type script on top of
JavaScript or like, Ruby was also

01:02:08.965 --> 01:02:12.140
like that, like pendulum shift to like
the, like you can just do everything.

01:02:12.140 --> 01:02:12.740
That's all magical.

01:02:12.740 --> 01:02:15.350
But then it's like, okay, well
okay, we can't be that magical cuz

01:02:15.350 --> 01:02:16.580
like, there's security concerns.

01:02:16.585 --> 01:02:19.250
You can't be that magical because
speed, you can't like, and they

01:02:19.250 --> 01:02:21.980
start like tighten things up and
then like the pendulum swings again.

01:02:21.980 --> 01:02:25.130
And like it's, we're at that
swinging of the pendulum where it's

01:02:25.130 --> 01:02:26.480
like, oh, now it's really cool.

01:02:26.480 --> 01:02:27.770
Like now it's in a really good spot.

01:02:28.010 --> 01:02:30.650
And then what's gonna happen is like this
for new, for me years and like someone

01:02:30.650 --> 01:02:32.240
come up with something like brand new.

01:02:32.240 --> 01:02:34.850
But like, we've taken JavaScript,
which has been around forever,

01:02:34.880 --> 01:02:38.000
but like JavaScripts become
popular maybe like 10 years ago,

01:02:38.000 --> 01:02:39.180
eight years ago, seven years ago.

01:02:39.193 --> 01:02:42.163
Started to be like, get a little bit of
respect cuz like it got, people started

01:02:42.163 --> 01:02:45.403
like rapidly iterating on it and now
it's got to a really good point and it's

01:02:45.403 --> 01:02:48.313
gonna keep going that way, but eventually
it's gonna go too far and someone's

01:02:48.313 --> 01:02:51.463
gonna come along and start from scratch
again and be like, this is amazing.

01:02:51.463 --> 01:02:53.143
It's a new language you've never
heard of and it's really simple

01:02:53.148 --> 01:02:54.253
and friendly and fun and like

01:02:54.318 --> 01:02:54.798
Matt: I use Rust.

01:02:55.033 --> 01:02:55.363
Greg: Yeah.

01:02:55.393 --> 01:02:55.693
Well

01:02:55.783 --> 01:02:58.801
I yeah, it could be rust, but I dunno,
that's a, that's very high level don't

01:02:58.921 --> 01:03:01.151
really, I could go like more in depth
with my, like, thoughts on alt tech, but

01:03:01.171 --> 01:03:04.861
like, I think it's a pendulum and like
we're in this really good spot of the

01:03:04.861 --> 01:03:08.251
pendulum and it's gonna get worse at some
point and it's gonna get better again.

01:03:08.291 --> 01:03:09.181
And it's gonna get worse again.

01:03:09.181 --> 01:03:10.051
It's gonna get better.

01:03:10.095 --> 01:03:12.959
I kind of like, the jQuery days was
like, that was, you know, great.

01:03:12.959 --> 01:03:15.539
That was like peak web dev because
like, things were really nice and all it

01:03:15.539 --> 01:03:18.899
all worked, like all these like random
ideas came together and started to work.

01:03:19.169 --> 01:03:21.599
Not just jQuery  but like,
everything like PHP got better.

01:03:21.599 --> 01:03:26.159
Like it just worked and then like
it got worse and worse and then

01:03:26.159 --> 01:03:28.079
like, Ruby came along and changed
how people thought about stuff.

01:03:28.139 --> 01:03:31.589
Like the express and node came along
and how people, it just like, it's every

01:03:31.589 --> 01:03:35.489
few years like it, it just hits this
point where everything kind of comes

01:03:35.489 --> 01:03:36.959
together and feels really, really great.

01:03:36.959 --> 01:03:38.399
And I think we're in that spot right now.

01:03:39.659 --> 01:03:40.139
Matt: All right.

01:03:40.409 --> 01:03:41.099
How do we wrap this up?

01:03:42.209 --> 01:03:42.740
? 
Greg: I dunno.

01:03:42.767 --> 01:03:44.114
You probably could just cut there.

01:03:44.114 --> 01:03:44.908
Matt: No, no,

01:03:45.133 --> 01:03:45.733
Greg: final question,

01:03:46.108 --> 01:03:46.923
Matt: Final question.

01:03:47.923 --> 01:03:53.953
What startup are you really excited about
or what company, new product, new feature

01:03:53.953 --> 01:03:57.613
that's not yours, something new that's out
there that you're really excited about?

01:03:57.613 --> 01:03:58.348
It can be anything.

01:04:00.133 --> 01:04:01.153
It doesn't have to be tech.

01:04:01.388 --> 01:04:01.878
I know.

01:04:02.383 --> 01:04:03.703
it can be like a new shoe
company or something.

01:04:03.718 --> 01:04:06.538
Greg: Oh, I don't know if it's, so
this is, I'm only saying this because

01:04:06.538 --> 01:04:09.768
like I just I was just thinking
it was like five minutes ago.

01:04:09.788 --> 01:04:12.068
There's like a new breed of
software that I really love.

01:04:12.146 --> 01:04:15.901
Like Superhuman might have been like the
first in this, but like, I think Raycast

01:04:15.901 --> 01:04:18.041
is one of the best apps I've ever used.

01:04:18.041 --> 01:04:20.125
And then Linear is the other one,
like those two, like they're very,

01:04:20.130 --> 01:04:25.075
like, they're created with like
new, like type of software and like

01:04:25.075 --> 01:04:26.455
they're informed by other software.

01:04:26.455 --> 01:04:28.405
Like, it's not like they like came
outta nowhere and like, you know,

01:04:28.405 --> 01:04:30.145
build software like out of nowhere.

01:04:30.145 --> 01:04:32.213
But like and I, I'll, you know, I'll
probably get bored of it cause like

01:04:32.273 --> 01:04:35.702
linear and superhuman and Ray has like,
they all kinda look the same and it's

01:04:35.702 --> 01:04:38.072
like, okay, like at some point it's
gonna go out, out of Vog a little bit.

01:04:38.072 --> 01:04:41.702
But like, it just, like, they're different
enough from like previous stuff and

01:04:41.702 --> 01:04:43.442
like, I just, they iterate quickly.

01:04:43.562 --> 01:04:43.652
What

01:04:43.662 --> 01:04:46.577
Matt: is it in less than 60 seconds,
what is it that you like about

01:04:46.577 --> 01:04:47.417
them that makes 'em different?

01:04:47.417 --> 01:04:50.417
Is it that they, you know, I know
that I know a lot of'em are s be fast

01:04:50.417 --> 01:04:51.418
and help you, like, optimize your

01:04:51.872 --> 01:04:52.022
Greg: Yep.

01:04:52.262 --> 01:04:55.502
They're fast, they're opinionated, and
they were built by people who really

01:04:55.502 --> 01:04:57.122
understood how people were doing.

01:04:57.122 --> 01:05:00.692
So same as, like I said about next,
like, it's like it's, it's, it's clearly

01:05:00.692 --> 01:05:05.042
built by someone who, to your point, uses
the product and is like building it for

01:05:05.042 --> 01:05:08.792
themselves and not just for themselves,
but like building it for someone

01:05:08.792 --> 01:05:10.082
with the exact same use case they do.

01:05:10.142 --> 01:05:11.822
Realizing that most people
have the same use case.

01:05:11.852 --> 01:05:14.360
And it's just, again, it's just,
there's really nice software out there

01:05:14.365 --> 01:05:17.344
today and I'm just really excited
that I get to use a lot of this Nice

01:05:17.415 --> 01:05:18.735
a lot of this nice software day.

01:05:19.275 --> 01:05:19.665
Matt: Awesome.

01:05:19.695 --> 01:05:20.085
Cool.

01:05:20.385 --> 01:05:23.025
Well, thanks for, thanks for
being on the podcast again.

01:05:23.079 --> 01:05:23.409
Greg: Definitely.

01:05:23.409 --> 01:05:23.619
I'll see

01:05:23.709 --> 01:05:25.049
Matt: Any, any shoutouts you wanna

01:05:25.065 --> 01:05:25.259
Greg: do?

01:05:25.309 --> 01:05:26.499
No, I got no shoutouts.

01:05:26.610 --> 01:05:29.250
But I'm always in, so in a
year, two years, whatever.

01:05:29.270 --> 01:05:30.540
Matt: Where, where can people follow you?

01:05:30.540 --> 01:05:31.500
Are you on Twitter still?

01:05:31.830 --> 01:05:33.471
Greg: I am on Twitter for now.

01:05:33.500 --> 01:05:37.004
As long as it's solvent just today that
he's like, might go bankrupt next week,

01:05:37.094 --> 01:05:37.364
Matt: oh,

01:05:37.394 --> 01:05:37.844
Greg: okay.

01:05:37.844 --> 01:05:38.196
cool.

01:05:38.229 --> 01:05:45.860
But twitter.com, that's t w i t t e r
dot c o m slash no, g G k o b e r g e r.

01:05:46.130 --> 01:05:46.520
Matt: Cool.

01:05:46.610 --> 01:05:46.970
Awesome.

01:05:46.970 --> 01:05:47.420
Thanks, Greg.

01:05:47.630 --> 01:05:47.780
Right.

01:05:47.780 --> 01:05:48.050
Greg: Thanks Matt

01:05:48.140 --> 01:05:48.350
Matt: see ya.