What Roman Ugarte thinks about startups
Leads product for Grok Bot at SpaceX AI; previously led growth at Cursor, which he joined when it had about 15 people.
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Their wordsif you define a startup by number of people or by like the funding round like none of those things really make any sense. The core thing that defines a startup is exactly what you're describing, which is this kind of scramble energy of things are kind of chaotic and kind of disorganized.
↗How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)youtube.com 15th of 18 in this recording
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Their wordsAnd so I would really encourage many founders or people starting out today to be more grounded in that perspective of how can I make something that is not possible now possible.
↗How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)youtube.com 18th of 18 in this recording
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