Welcome to the show everybody it's going to be a great episode of this week in startups we have a little bit of a accidental VC school from Jason his evolving pitch strategy how to take a meeting basically then we're going to talk a little bit about the creator economy monetization for creators on tiktok while lots of people are moving over to youtube and what platforms oh creators more importantly how you as a creator you're basically a startup founder so how do you turn your talent and your brand into a business we're going to talk about that we are

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slash twist and lemon dot IO need to speed up your product development without draining your budget higher vetted engineers from Europe at lemon dot IO go to lemon dot IO slash twist to get 15% off for the first four weeks I do have to tell you that uh what I have realized during this job so far is that the hardest part for me is that um

I'm a little embarrassed to say this but like I've kind of been talent for a long time and things I discovered early on is I didn't I don't I didn't even know how to make a zoom meeting no it is hard to be just to help the snowflake and I don't know how to make my own meeting

well I tell you I had this too because as talent slash CEO I had the benefit of both I was like get me on a flight and then uh yeah get that the and then I realized like wait a second I haven't booked the flight in like 10 fucking years

uh I have all these apps on my phone and the apps went from being absolutely horrific five years ago yeah absolutely flawless now I don't know if you notice that no excuse there's no excuse not to book your own damn place so I'm trying to book a flight on united or jet blue and then I'm like wait a second I go in the app

and it's like book click done and like getting a jet blue flight now United not so much but they're working on it

but jet blue bomb boy and united which is kind of I think they're kind of like as easy as uber reads door to ash and uber now not quite yeah 80% 85% of the way there

that one luckily I feel like I never went full time I was there are things that I'm bad at being talent about for example I'm always trying to produce everything that I'm doing which

annoys producers I never got so far I still like book my I'm a very I'm kind of a control freak so I prefer to book my own ****

like the meetings and stuff like that I did not know and I keep it I keep waiting for everybody else to book my meat to book the

meeting like I'm like yeah you you book it you put the time on my calendar right that's what you actually in this case you

should do that that's what the producers are gonna because that also gives them an excuse to talk to the subject maybe do a

pre-interview or you know check their tech so that's actually a 100% when it's related to the show but now when it's

like a fellow investor who's gonna teach you that I need to know I'm like oh yeah no I need to book

yeah what is tell me what do you think it's your etiquette for because the

calendar thing is amazing where I can be like let's not have 19 emails about when you're free here's the

calendar link yeah but it does feel a bit like a power play to be like here's my calendar

no I think it's the opposite I think that's being like I think that's like total submission it's like right

it's totally like your call here's everything open it's you make the decision I I'm available to you

here it is so I think it's like the ultimate like you know submissive like yeah just I'm at your

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