Episode #32
Raleigh Founder Turning "Show Me, Don't Tell Me" Into AI Podcast + Building for Real | David Shaner
My man David Shaner had me the moment he described his podcast, [REDACTED], featuring entrepreneurs showing what they've built, the scar tissue they developed and the things they learned along the way.The things you can't teach but you most definitely can learn.The things you can only learn by doing.The feel. The intuition. The taste.The stuff that lets you see around corners.Show me, don't tell me. Not the smoke aka the "everything is perfect" posts on social. The hands in the dirt stuff I can't get enough of.David built a startup from scratch to 34 people, then wound it down to 2.Here's the hook. When the people left, the scaffolding stayed. Every process that created value was still mapped. So what did AI let him do with 2 people, standing on the structure built for 34?Our conversation on AIWA E32 was full of hard hitting, founder-led insights including:1: AI is very good at imitating what humans have already figured out that creates value. It's very bad at finding value from scratch. The scaffolding was the container it could imitate.2: Founders know "deep in your subconscious" that half of what they do every day is extraneous. The hard part isn't knowing. It's forcing yourself to prove it.3: The fastest path to getting your hands dirty is to start small and specific, using AI to solve your own problems, personally or professionally.Link to [REDACTED]: https://www.tweenertimes.com/s/redacted?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=menu
