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Gazeteci Walter Thompson ve HackerNoon CEO'su David Smooke ile Girişimciler için Yale Medya İlişkileri

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HackerNoon CEO'su David Smooke ve gazeteci Walter Thompson'ın Yale Girişimcilik Derneği ile yaptığı röportajı izleyin ve okuyun!
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we have two really amazing uh

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journalists um and kind of technologists

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in their own right as well um here to

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speak with us about best practices for

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startups when contacting the media um um

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kind of opening that black box of uh of

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Journalism and PR as well I'll introduce

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each of the mentors and then I'll bring

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them up individually to speak for about

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3 to five minutes and then we'll open up

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for uh questions from um the society

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memb

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first up we have Walter Thompson he's

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award-winning independent journalist

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based in San Francisco he was previously

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editorial manager at TechCrunch a

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leading digital publication covering

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technology and Entrepreneurship in the

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US and really around the world at Tech

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crunch he managed the site's guest

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contributor program which includes

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opinion pieces from startup Founders and

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investors that appear on TechCrunch plus

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and TechCrunch his work has appeared in

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the guardian San Francisco magazine ala

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journal and hoodline just to name a few

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we're really happy to have Walter with

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us uh and before I bring Walter on um

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I'd also like to introduce David smook

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who is the founder and CEO of hacker

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noon uh one of the leading news

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Publications for technologists and Tech

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enthusiasts that counts over 4 million

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monthly readers over the past seven

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years David has led the company's growth

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growth trajectory raising millions of

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dollars in Venture funding uh securing

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thousands of clients from startups to

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Leading technology corporations and

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Publishing stories from tens of

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thousands of contributing writers before

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founding his company David worked as the

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director of content marketing for smart

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recruiters um we'll go ahead and bring

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up Walter first and then and then David

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Walter if you'd like to share your

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screen I'm really happy to do so if not

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sir no worries either there um thanks

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Jim thanks for having me here today

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actually I did not do an official deck I

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just kind of wrote notes today so no

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screen to share sorry about that okay

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and apologies I had a big week today um

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I launched my podcast on Monday and then

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Sunday it contracted covid so I'm a

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little slow so here today sorry about

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that and congrats at the same time

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thanks just glad to be here um yeah so I

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have a I have an interesting that I mean

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I think it's interesting I guess um I

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spent most of my career working in

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startups before actually transitioned

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and became a journalist so I've kind of

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sat in both sides of the table when it

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comes to media and P are and trying to

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find your way into that whole ecosystem

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um and one thing I will say is this like

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the whole idea of encouraging

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entrepreneurs to become storytellers is

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a bit of a cliche but it's actually true

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you will need to create a cohesive

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narrative around you and your product or

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service before you enter the marketplace

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just the same way you need to do the

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same thing to get an investor to back

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you um so today I want to talk about

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some of the basic principles for

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generating positive coverage and also

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some thoughts on how to interact with

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reporters once you've actually gotten

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the access um and the first thing first

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is that if you've raised money from an

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investor that might be enough to make

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your company newsworthy in some circles

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most reporters are looking for the same

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sort of social proofs that investors

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seek so what problem is your company

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looking to solve is your solution

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feasible and then lastly why is your

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team the right one to solve this problem

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or take on this problem and that last

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part is really key uh you need to find

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concrete tangible ways to make yourself

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the hero of this three-part story as far

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as problem solution and then team uh and

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but overarching that I think the bigger

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thing I would say is the most important

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thing when it comes to actually getting

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your foot in the door and actually

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getting positive coverage to your

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company uh it's not it's not

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transactional it's not a I give you a

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pitch or I give you a tip and then you

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write about my company it the whole

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media PR thing in my experience is very

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much relationship based and I'm not

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saying that I'm not saying that to

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characterize it as good or bad I'm just

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saying it's kind of just how it is um

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and and I'm saying that because you know

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things I think people think that when

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they have a story in mind or they have

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when they're ready to go to market when

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they're ready to get some press for

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themselves uh a lot of people that they

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start with kind of cold calling just

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kind of like sending out emails to

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reporters who might they think right

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about them and that cold that that kind

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of spray spray and prey approach it

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really rarely results in coverage uh in

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fact actually it's one of those things

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journalists like the journalists I used

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to work with we would talk on we would

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trade on slack every day like the

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cheesiest most uh like just you know

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least creative pitches we got and we'd

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laugh about them because we you know

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people want to pass the time and not to

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be cruel but it's just like some people

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just really would submit just really

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terrible pitches that they thought be

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provocative or interesting um you

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wouldn't I wouldn't you wouldn't believe

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how many times in a day I got a pitch

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that was basically had another

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reporter's name and another publication

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on it because they were just sending

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them out so quickly and using a template

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it's it's so take your time um if you

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can establish yourself as a domain

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expert or somebody who actually has or

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reliable source uh over time you're much

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more likely to get the engagement you're

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seeking um so yeah cold pitches are just

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really ineffective they're not a good

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use of your time they're not generate

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the coverage you're looking for um it's

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really about building relationships and

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so I would say some of those ways not

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actually heavy lifts as far as how to

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build a

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relationship there's a service called

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Help reporter out uh it's called H and

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it's exactly what it sounds like you can

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register yourself uh and then if you see

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and everybody you'll see a newsletter

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basically of reporters who are looking

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for answers to questions that are

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totally outside their expertise even if

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they have a beat on something like

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biotech or some aspect of Technology

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they still might have like a a gap in

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their background as far as like how to

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explain the technology or how something

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works or some Advanced kind of question

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so they go to services like like H and

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look for people people who have

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expertise who can actually answer

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questions and be a good source that's

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one really good way of um meeting you

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know engaging yourself with the

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journalistic community and presenting

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yourself as a domain expert another way

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um uh mentioned before I used to work

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for last four years I was working at

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TechCrunch and I was managing the guest

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contributor program which is basically

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op-eds um so op-eds that were opinion

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articles about Topics in the public

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interest that were technology related

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but then the other side were basically

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business related articles that were

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basically people sharing how-tos and

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kind of explaining how they solved

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common business problems that a lot of

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early stage startups had to contend with

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for fundraising or how to price their

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software products or marketing issues

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and and what I found was basically um a

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lot of people who didn't think of

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themselves as storytellers but they

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actually had these stories because like

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if you're an entrepreneur you have to go

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through these things as far as sitting

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across from an investor and trying to

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gain their trust and get them to give

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you a check or trying to hire somebody

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or trying to fire somebody and so I was

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able to kind of find like by asking

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people like you know about their

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experience um like what do you have that

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is useful to somebody else that you

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could share like and I would actually

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people and it's kind of funny people

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you'll probably hear a lot of people

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talk about thought leadership and I have

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a very contrarian aspect about

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contrarian opinion about that I don't

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think thought leadership is valuable to

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readers I think thought leadership is

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valuable to the person who is putting

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the thoughts forward because it

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burnishes their credentials and makes

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them look authoritative and good and and

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like a good investment really thought

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leaders are not it's good to be try to

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be helpful don't try to be a thought

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leader um try to share something that

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will actually create value and help help

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someone solve a problem not just make

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yourself look good that's what reporters

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are looking for um might be cheesy

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launch a podcast speak publicly uh send

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reporters commentary on something they

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wrote e doesn't even have to be about

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your company this is actually a good

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example I know of a Founder who spotted

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an error in an article about one of

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their competitors

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uh they contacted the reporter and

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explained you know here's why you were a

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little off in this whole thing and that

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actually established them as an expert

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in that reporter's eyes and so when they

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were going back and writing about other

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things in that sector that reporter knew

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to talk oh this person's a resource

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they're helpful and good and they

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weren't coming at me to promote

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themselves they're coming at me to

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actually be helpful that's that's

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valuable and that's the kind of thing

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that actually will get you the

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interactions you're looking for with

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reporters um

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first couple minutes very positive and

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aspirational so I want to end with a

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list of don'ts like I said before don't

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email every journalist uh before you

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pitch do build a spreadsheet with names

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of reporters who've written about your

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company uh do email them individually

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each one um don't use generative AI to

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craft your pitch uh try to do this in a

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thoughtful slow sensible basis so that

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you basically can give every reporter

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time to respond before you move on to

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the next don't just dump it out there

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and email 50 reporters in the same email

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thread um it's not really going to be

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they're not going to see it as valuable

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for them um don't exaggerate or lie we

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will always find out and it's not going

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to be good for you if you offer a

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reporter an exclusive uh stick to that

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commitment and remember that anything

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you say to a reporter a journalist can

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be published anything so if you want to

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be off the Record you must say so and

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get them to agree before you disclose

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the thing you want to be off the Record

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on the record is just exactly what it

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sounds like there's other you there's

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also not for attribution meaning you can

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say something but they can only identify

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you in general terms like a

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entrepreneurial minded student at a IV

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league university that would be like

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Notch attribution on background it's

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when they can quote an anonymous source

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they quote The Source anonymously and

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it's only paraphrased and then lastly

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off the Record which is exactly what it

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sounds like the information you give the

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reporter is not for publication but it

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could be used to as a point off

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investigation for another story or to

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verify a fact um just so you know just

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the last thing I want to say it's really

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unlikely that you're ever going to read

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the entire story you're in before it's

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published uh asking for a preview makes

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you look defensive to a reporter um and

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I'll just say this if you practice good

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interview hygiene you won't have

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anything to worry about as far as the

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final product um so just again try to be

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intentional try to find ways again it's

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it's not easy uh it's work and it's it's

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but it's and it's a long process of you

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know building something relationships

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but if you put the work in I promise

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it'll pay off because building

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relationships is really the only way

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you're going to get positive coverage

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and actually get to know reporters who

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will want to get to know you as well um

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and uh yeah thanks again for your time

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and if you have any questions i' be

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happy to take them thank you so much

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Walter no great presentation thanks for

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your talk um before before we take those

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questions from Walter as well I did want

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to bring on David smook who is the CEO

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of hacker noon to speak for a few

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minutes as well David welcome hey thanks

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for having me it's been good to hear

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everyone's talks here um you know uh

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Walter congratulations on the new

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podcast and leaving Tech crunch it's

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nice to see you in the same room here um

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you know I was thinking going hearing

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the story of like when to start your

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company I mean and when to make the leap

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know I I did two years part-time before

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I went full-time on hacker noon and you

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know so I've been at this really nine

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years you know a lot pretty long time um

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and we found a nice niche in terms of

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between social media and traditional

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media um and you know as social media

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kind of rose up everyone became a source

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and that is a lot more a great

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opportunity for an entrepreneur but it

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also throws you into all the noise and

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just your voice is kind of equal with

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everybody else so at hacker noon we

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provide a professional editor and we

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reject half of the stories but at the

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end of the day it's between

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self-publishing and um pitching a

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reporter and having them write about you

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so it's just uh looking through some of

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this I mean and thinking wow here I am

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at Yale you know a school I couldn't get

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into talking to entrepreneurs and you

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guys are you know some of the elite of

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the elite here and you're choosing to

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say I'm going to get into

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entrepreneurship and my message to you

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is once you get into it you're

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completely equal and your degree is

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absolutely meaningless it's it maybe it

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matters to some investors but in terms

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of actually getting customers and

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growing your business it's going to come

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down to the work you actually do and how

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it compares to the other offerings in

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the marketplace so um some of me thinks

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you're brave and some of me thinks

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you're stupid you know of saying hey

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this expensive degree I just got I'm

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going to go in a profession where I can

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make it worth nothing you know and that

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that's um I I find a little bit of a

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beauty in that um so you know hats off

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to you guys keep going keep building uh

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definitely um when it comes to Media to

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me it's more about um building up your

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rate of publishing and your quality of

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publishing uh because your business

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comes first and your media comes second

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and hopefully your media follows your

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business and you get media because of

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the good work you're doing but it's it's

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usually not going to feel like enough

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you're going to feel like you're doing

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more work than the that you get and you

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have to be okay with that feeling and

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you have to be okay with taking smaller

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incremental steps to get more coverage

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about your business and tell your story

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and it's not going to come all at once

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like just because you got funding

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doesn't mean anyone cares I mean there

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there's definitely some elements that a

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reporter

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um

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any uh sorry Sor sorry David that wasn't

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for you my apologies okay for the other

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David just sorry sorry about that

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um yeah

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so thinking more about um you know what

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to do next with with your business and

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how to get more media I would look at

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what is interesting about your own story

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and I I actually kind of gravitate a

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little more towards making your

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customers or your contributors to Hero

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as opposed to yourself um but that's

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also just because I haven't been as good

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at doing that and making myself the hero

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um I think you know the individual

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stories for me are are the hero and

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hacker noon has a lot of stories and

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most of the links that talk about hacker

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noon they're actually talking about

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content on hacker noon and not hacker

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noon the company which kind of puts me

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in a different spot but it's also every

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business is like that if your business

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has usage and adoption it's the people

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using the product that are the aggregate

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story of what your company is and you

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can try to place stories and build

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relationships and that'll frame in a

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little bit but it's just within the

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whole usage of your product and the

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internet talking about it so I I really

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at like trying to build up like how many

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updates are you doing a day how many

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long form posts you're doing to me

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writing is a way of clear thinking and

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if you do not have good writing you do

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not have clear thinking like they

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they're things that exist they can't

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exist independent of each other in my

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opinion um so it the other great thing

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about writing more as an entrepreneur is

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you're refining your own thinking so

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setting goals of just writing more per

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day I think will end up leading to more

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media coverage about you because you'll

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understand your story better and where

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you exist in the market but tangibly as

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an entrepreneur you the only goal you

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really made was write more each day and

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so it becomes a little more attainable

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than some of these pitches and building

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relationships that they're very

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long-term games and you may know someone

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for five years before they write one

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story about you you know or you may not

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even know the person who writes the next

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story about you and that that would be

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great but that's that's a little bit of

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luck and it's the aggregation of of all

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your work and you can't expect it to

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just happen so as you you you come with

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these spots of like how do you spend

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time getting media it's always going to

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feel like a second job it's your

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business is always going to feel like

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your first one you know making payroll

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making Revenue get getting your team

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motivated that stuff's always going to

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come first so you have to find a good

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balance of like how to weave into your

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day about how to be more active on media

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and get get involved with reporters and

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make you know long-term relationships

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so yeah my my advice is to keep going

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and grind it out like I'm a stubborn

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person and I I think that stubbornness

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is um an entrepreneur's best friend in a

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lot of

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ways awesome David um great presentation

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I couldn't agree more I think it's a

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great exercise for anybody um to to

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write whether it's something that you

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put out there or just kind of keep

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personally because it does kind of set

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your head straight um as an entrepreneur

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as well so fantastic

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um um feedback we'll go ahead and open

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up for questions uh for either David or

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Walter or both um uh Phil uh uh Pui as

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well um David anybody want to start off

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with a question for either of our

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mentors uh yeah go ahead David I think

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you're on mute too yeah uh thank you so

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much for the presentations those were

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awesome really really love to hear that

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um so you know moving forward of course

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there's all types of new technology

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coming out and it's you know always

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difficult to predict the future but how

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do you think AI might change the social

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media PR and and really just media in

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general Landscapes um first of all Spam

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is through the roof it's easier than

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ever to spam people and that is very

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annoying um you know so at hacker noon

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you know we're using AI tools to measure

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AI writing and we're using AI to say say

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give the editor and the writer it reads

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your content it gives you five

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recommendations of headlines that could

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be better you know based on our past

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library and the content that you wrote

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but usually the human can still write a

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better headline and I think you know

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human authenticity will go up in value

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over time as there's more Bots and AIS

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kind of floating around um I I think

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right now in media it's still more

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improving your workflow is a more

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valuable use of AI than creating content

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but the leaps that it's made from input

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to Output to create content in the last

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year are absolutely remarkable and like

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creating images is like 10 years ago you

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know when I was managing smart

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recruiters blog with 400 contributors

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and we had no budget to buy images for

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all these blog posts it was really

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annoying to not be able to make an

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original image and have to always do

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something extra and add it to my job to

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do it so like the idea that you can

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write one good prompt and have one good

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original images or maybe you have to

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write three good prompts to get one good

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original image is a huge difference in

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the blogging space um so and it gives

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your site more of overall feel you know

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if you use a good prompt like uh diction

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language and consistency you know you're

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all the images on your site are going to

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feel more like one brand so um I'm I'm

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waiting and seeing I'm curious uh what

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Walter thinks of what AI is doing to us

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now oh geez well I mean I think I I do

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agree with you I think I think the human

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output is generally

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better quality right now um and probably

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will be for some time what I I've yeah

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I've been using I mean so when I was

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working at Tech crunch we had a we

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onboarded an Analytics tool that was uh

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AI powered in the back end and it was I

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only really found it useful in that it

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did so it did something call the content

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helpfulness analysis where it would

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basically would you know it would you

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know parse your text and spit out a

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result as far as like it was as helpful

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to the reader as far as like and it

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would it was it was pretty good as far

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as the quality of the summary but it

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didn't necessarily tell me anything I

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didn't know like if you were an editor

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who had put the story together you would

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have seen all the same things that the

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AI saw going in on the on the front end

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so it was like the only really useful

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thing was after an article was written

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it would spit out here are some

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suggested headlines you can use in

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social media and that was actually a

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timesaver because it was based on my

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excellent headline and honestly creating

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headlines to repackage your content on

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social media it's kind of boring work

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that like doesn't take a lot of creative

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creative thought here's the thing I

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would say about generative AI is that

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it's not good it's not bad I think it's

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just basically it's the average of

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everything right so it's never going to

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be it's never going to blow your socks

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off because it's just the average of

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everything which which can make it you

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know it's it's a tuna it's a tuna fish

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sandwich it's fine but it's not like I'm

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not gonna like you got to go try this

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tuna fish sandwich it's amazing because

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it's like the best tuna fish sandwich in

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the world is going to be fine I think so

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it's kind of like that for me that's the

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analogy I would

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use

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um David if you wanted to follow up as

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as well I was going to Pig you back go

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ahead yeah I just wanted to say that

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sounds super interesting so it seems

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like both of you think it's a it's a

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solid tool but not yet and probably

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never uh going to replace the human

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authenticity

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component well here's what I would say

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this this is this is dumb so before I

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worked in Tech journalism I work as a a

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local journalist here in San Francisco

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and my zone included uh Ocean Beach all

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the way out like you know people surf

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and so so forth and uh there's an

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article one day where there's a beach

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clean up at Ocean Beach where the uh the

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band Metallica like all those guys who

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live locally they're doing they're doing

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a beach cleanup and so the headline I

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came up with was enter sand

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men now I think that's pretty good and I

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got a lot of great feedback on that

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right but I don't see how generative AI

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could ever have come up with that

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headline um I'm not saying that's good

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or bad I just don't think it's it's not

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we're not there yet and so so it's got

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real limitations if you want to just

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basically like you know fill fill some

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column inches of stuff that sounds okay

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but doesn't really excite anyone it's

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fine but it's I don't think it's gender

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AI it's not going to be like you know

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the letter from your grandmother telling

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you how proud she is of you you're never

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going to be that moved I don't think by

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anything not for a while it's gonna be a

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long time yeah I would add we like we

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our business is publishing texts that's

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like our primary focus but the use cases

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we found for the AI growths haven't

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really been as much text

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like we had a project where we

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introduced 22 categories at top our

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35,000 tags and how do you put the

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35,000 tags into the 22 categories now

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that's a great one for a large language

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model it can very accurately say this is

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the tag and I can make the case why it

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belongs in one category or another and

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we have to make 35,000 choices which I

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don't want to do so th that was a use

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case where like AI was awesome and it

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recat it added a layer of categorization

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at top of our content and it was a great

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use case but it has nothing to do with

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generative you know so it's it's um the

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use cases we're still finding um like

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logo creation is getting pretty good I'm

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a little more bullish on the image

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creation than the text creation um and

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it's definitely changing our lives but I

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I'm with Walter that the humans are

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still better writers and even if they're

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not better writers there's a

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psychological effect of you want to hear

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from another human and that will remain

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true as humans of all we don't want to

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hear from a machine as much as we want

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to hear from a human and that that

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psychological effect even if the quality

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gets completely equal if we believe it's

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from a machine and not a person we're

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gonna lose trust in

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it gotcha um I'm curious as well Walter

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you you you said actually both of you

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guys have a little bit of background um

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working at companies as well before is

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there anything in thinking back to your

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days um uh working on kind of the

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marketing side

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is there anything that you think right

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now that AI is useful

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for um for marketers or for Founders who

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are trying to reach out to the media

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without kind of Crossing that line and

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creating a full you know pitch out of uh

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using chat GPT and and and nothing

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original is there anything that you do

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think is useful for right now that they

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can

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leverage if I may I would I would trust

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and I use the word trust lightly I I

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would trust like chat GPT to give me a

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list of like give me a list of

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journalists who have written about uh

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generative AI from a critical

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perspective in the last three months

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like I would and I would and then it

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would it would give me a list and then I

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could look at that list and like do a

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couple of checks on the list to see like

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and then I would know what like and I so

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there's there's some ways I think

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directionally that I could use AI in my

[00:24:55] : [00:24:58]

work to kind of save some time or or or

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to aggregate information that's already

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out there um but at the same time I also

[00:25:02] : [00:25:04]

like I know that like whatever I get I

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have to rigorously check for Quality and

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accuracy because the AI can can

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hallucinate uh and that's and and you

[00:25:11] : [00:25:13]

know I don't I don't want to be putting

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stuff out there that's fake so like I

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got to make sure I'm vetting the the

[00:25:16] : [00:25:18]

work it produces right yeah I think

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building lists is really useful building

[00:25:20] : [00:25:22]

relevant lists it it just it can it can

[00:25:22] : [00:25:25]

do that um we've been using seamless on

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the marketing and sales side they have a

[00:25:27] : [00:25:29]

massive dat base of emails so then once

[00:25:29] : [00:25:31]

you build the list you target it more

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and more and you can build a email list

[00:25:33] : [00:25:36]

for cold Outreach um also I mean

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spitting up landing pages in decks

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faster and more efficiently marketers

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and Le it's it's worth it uh you know

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because on the there's a few tools um

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like in terms of landing pages I've been

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using bal's AI tool and I can prompt I

[00:25:50] : [00:25:52]

can describe what type of landing page I

[00:25:52] : [00:25:54]

want and then it actually builds the

[00:25:54] : [00:25:56]

code and I can then move the code over

[00:25:56] : [00:25:58]

to a developer and it designer so now

[00:25:58] : [00:26:02]

I'm moving from prompts to HTML which is

[00:26:02] : [00:26:03]

really nice in terms of getting a page

[00:26:03] : [00:26:05]

out quickly and getting my the outline

[00:26:05] : [00:26:07]

of my idea there and instead of passing

[00:26:07] : [00:26:09]

off a design file I'm actually passing

[00:26:09] : [00:26:11]

off code and and it's the same amount of

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time so that that I think is something

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that like I would definitely look

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towards in building decks it's just a

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good deck is still done by a human but

[00:26:20] : [00:26:23]

the idea of like speeding you write the

[00:26:23] : [00:26:25]

script of the deck and it makes it flow

[00:26:25] : [00:26:27]

a little better and gives you a little

[00:26:27] : [00:26:28]

better image

[00:26:28] : [00:26:30]

you can it's just much faster than it

[00:26:30] : [00:26:32]

was you know with a even with a canva

[00:26:32] : [00:26:34]

tool or a Google Sheets tool so more

[00:26:34] : [00:26:35]

quickly you have a new offering that you

[00:26:35] : [00:26:37]

want to have and you have a meeting

[00:26:37] : [00:26:39]

coming up with your lead you can just

[00:26:39] : [00:26:41]

have a deck custom to them in the

[00:26:41] : [00:26:43]

offering a little quicker so I think on

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that image creation and code creation

[00:26:45] : [00:26:47]

side of it you can save a good bit of

[00:26:47] : [00:26:48]

time in your

[00:26:48] : [00:26:50]

workflow awesome yeah and that

[00:26:50] : [00:26:52]

translates to Founders as well I mean uh

[00:26:52] : [00:26:56]

for for a pitch deck um you know you

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know save a bunch of time there as well

[00:26:57] : [00:27:01]

so um well I know we've uh we started a

[00:27:01] : [00:27:02]

little bit late we held you guys uh past

[00:27:02] : [00:27:05]

the time it's getting uh later there in

[00:27:05] : [00:27:09]

in Colorado and in uh in California um

[00:27:09] : [00:27:11]

so I wanted to thank both of our mentors

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Walter Thompson uh for uh for staying

[00:27:14] : [00:27:16]

with us and he has covid too so another

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a big a big round of applause for uh for

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him and congrats again Walter on the

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launch of the new podcast um and as and

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as well uh David smook um CEO of of

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hacker noon thank than you both

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gentlemen for for speaking with us

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today thanks for having us pleasure

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thanks all right take care everybody

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