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OhHello - Sahin Boydas
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OhHello!!
This one’s not just a story — it’s a blueprint for the future we’re building. This is Episode 96.
Meet Sahin Boydas — an entrepreneur that gets shit done:
🎯 Built Remoteteam.com (Acquired by Gusto) before remote work was a buzzword
💸 Sold to Gusto in the middle of the pandemic
🎙️ Records 6,000+ hours of daily conversations with his wife + team
🤖 Runs his own AI to track life, ideas, and startup chaos
🌱 Now building from Claros Farm — part lab, part vision, all heart
What hit hardest?
“Every company’s fate could change if every employee had a coach who really knew them.”
That’s the entire thesis behind OhHello.ai 👋 — giving people real-time access to mentors, motivators, and modern guidance when it matters most.
We talked:
💥 Motivation over micromanagement
📈 How to build world-class teams from junior talent
🧠 Why every founder needs a friend-tor
💡 Why recording your life might be the best startup investment you make
This one flies — Sahin’s story is wild, honest, and inspiring as hell!
🎧 Tune in now wherever you listen/subscribe/watch: https://linktr.ee/ohhelloinc
🍒 Tag someone who need a lil inspiration
#OhHello #Startups #RemoteWork #AI #Mentorship #Founders #FutureOfWork
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Transcript
Introduction to Wearable Recorders
00:00:05
Speaker
Man, this is dope. It's good music. it's It's great music. Oh, hello, Shaheen. How are you, my friend? I'm great. How are you? Thank you for having me, man. Thanks for being here. It's been good getting know you over the past several months. Yeah.
00:00:20
Speaker
First and foremost, you've done some amazingly cool things. You're a huge proponent of remote work, hybrid work. We'll get into all of that in several minutes.
Recording Routine and Tools
00:00:31
Speaker
But before we started, when we just having a coffee chat, you were telling about of your gadgets, some things that you're interested in Tell our audience, what are you wearing around your neck right now? Yeah, this is... So I am obsessed with this unlimited all-the-time recorders. I don't know the near term, but I think that sort of...
00:00:51
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It will be a future platform, in my opinion. So this is Limitless 1. one This is from the Rewind company. that Their company was Rewind. It was a Mac app that you install, and you were like checking. And if you search, you can go like a time machine.
00:01:08
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It searches everything everything you have. So they launched this. It's a beta. So it records you, and then they have an app, and the app summarizes and categorizes things.
00:01:21
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But ah this is this started not because of this. So forth the when i once I saw the chat GPT-2, I said, oh, my God, I can just record my life and really put it in a GPT kind of environment and ask all my ideas, everything we talk.
00:01:43
Speaker
And with my wife, my wife is a PEF member, post-exited founder as well, and she's a founder as well. So then our whole life, every day, we go to walking between like 8 to 9, 9.30ish.
Daily Recording Schedule
00:01:59
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and We get these DJI microphones and put it here and just record it, right? ah So every day after 5 p.m., I also like try to stop working ah and then, you know, ah put one of these and record myself. I probably have like, I will say 8 to 4. Thousands of hours.
00:02:19
Speaker
at Let's say 80% of the time I'm recording, so it's like 365 days. Let me do 75%. Let me be more. So it's like 165 multiplied by this, and it's like six hours of talking, let's say.
00:02:36
Speaker
Six hours of talking, and I'm doing it for the last four years. It's 6,000 hours of recording. And our topics are very fun. It's like exits, startups, what other people are doing, what is about my startups, my problems. And I actually categorize them, label them right now.
00:02:55
Speaker
So anytime I have a text, I try to do the taxonomy and label them. Okay, this is about our kids. This is conspiracy theories. This is political things we talk about.
00:03:06
Speaker
And then ah startups, growth, ideas.
Organizing and Transcribing Audio
00:03:10
Speaker
And then and now what I do is every time I have a recording, it goes to Dropbox.
00:03:17
Speaker
From Dropbox, it goes to MacWhisper. And MacWhisper takes it, turns into a text. And then that text collects in a folder. And then i have a local LLM that reads it.
00:03:31
Speaker
And I can ask, what does my wife ask for me for the birthday, right? and i think it will be very very close that i will have a full avatar that will be better than my original so your your ai avatar is by far a better person than you are um it lay out never very son yeah so here's the limits out like i want to see like if i write me a bloop about myself like put i will also put all the content i created uh I will just want, I believe there is so much unstructured data in our life as a startup founder that we are really missing out.
00:04:11
Speaker
That's my thesis here. So that's a great thesis. This is a an unorthodox way that to to kick it off. And I appreciate that.
Early Life and Remote Work Philosophy
00:04:20
Speaker
We met through PEF, through Post-Exit Founders. yeah You are in Austin. You spent many, many years in the San Francisco Bay Area. You grew up in Turkey.
00:04:31
Speaker
but You've had a fantastic entrepreneurial success. You'll walk us through a little bit of that. And we started off the bat just talking about AI, about the importance of AI, how will you use AI.
00:04:45
Speaker
And we first bonded and met about four or five months ago because you were intrigued of what I was doing and what I was building for Oh Hello, Oh Hello.ai. all about mentorship and remote work.
00:04:57
Speaker
And it's, it was very serendipitous and ironic because I remember reading about you and you had reached out to me. remember reading about you, about what you had built and what you had sold to Gusto several years ago. So why don't you, you know, have a bit humility of humility and be humble. Like yeah tell us a little bit about what you've done and accomplished throughout your career.
00:05:20
Speaker
Yeah, so one thing that i started coding very early on. like Very early on. Very early. So I was like six years old and coding. Like when I was 13, I can build websites and make money.
00:05:35
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like So I was extremely lucky to have a computer. And my father was a MIT engineer. So we had the like a computer very early on in my life.
00:05:48
Speaker
And I started this like game hacking, game programming, and this is this was my gateway. But I want to connect it today. So I had, when I was 17 years old, I had my first company in e-commerce, e-commerce accounting, and another like a very big CPG brand, and another e-commerce software, and luxury brand. That was my life in Turkey.
00:06:12
Speaker
I never had an office. in This is like 2000, 2000, or exist that time. such thing back two thousand three like this remote team doesn't even exist at that no such thing back then We had, the for e-commerce business, we had a warehouse and stuff, but because we were always engineering driven, most people were engineers.
00:06:37
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I said, man, I'm not going to go to office. like I really called nearly everything from my house or from coffee shops and my teams. I remember this is 2000. I had a person from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus as remote work, and we were chatting over Skype.
00:06:54
Speaker
Like Slack didn't exist at that time. We have ICQ rooms, by the way. So I was copying Slack into ICQ and Visual Studio was, I don't want to say something good to Microsoft, but visual as a double developer, but Visual Studio is, in my opinion, still magic compared to the shit we have.
00:07:16
Speaker
ah you can have like tasks chat over the tasks so I was doing remote kind of work I'm believer of remote and where I am today iss I never worked in an office in my like it's is It's unbelievable that I can come this far without having an office.
00:07:36
Speaker
So then when people look at my CV, like how many different companies I had, and because I didn't spend any traffic at the time on the traffic. It's very simple. Exactly. Right. You didn't have to deal with the bullshit that so many other people have had to deal with.
00:07:50
Speaker
You dealt with other kinds of bullshit, for sure. For sure. For sure. And I always say like, okay, when you go to office at nine o'clock, you You left your home 7.30, didn't eat anything.
00:08:01
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So your sugar is probably low or high, whatever the scientific term. And you go and because you are hungry, you go and eat like this coffee, food.
00:08:12
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And then because you were crazy, one hour traffic or metro or ah in car, then we have to sort of relax on until 11 o'clock so or 10.30.
00:08:23
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So nobody works before 10.30 in my opinion. but So then you have 10.30 to 1 o'clock. And then, you know, I work in a cool startup. I deserve to eat a great food. Then you go outside and eat like shitload of food. Then you are sleepy until 3 p.m., you know.
00:08:40
Speaker
And then you work between 3 and 5. And if you sometimes go, which meetup we're going to go? Where are we going to meet with friends? Everyone works like four hours, like efficiently, you know? It's like, but when you do remote work, in my opinion, you wake up at 8. You are with your nice shirts. Like, you don't lose any time. You can just instantly start to work with no cortisone, no like fight and flight hormones in your body after a one-hour traffic, you know?
00:09:08
Speaker
So it's like... different lifestyles. yeah So you've you've been a proponent of remote work for quite some time. Walk us through a bit more of just how you started some of the businesses that you started in in terms of creating opportunities for remote work, creating cultures, hiring people, going as ah being an entrepreneur off the bat, real hiring people worldwide, but doing it remotely, creating cultures remotely.
Founding Remote Team and Domain Investment
00:09:42
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yeah Yeah, so the story of remote team is very interesting. So I had belief that the remote work will become big because of Slack, Zoom.
00:09:57
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And I was in Costa Rica, I had 5G. I said, holy stuff. Like you can now work from Costa Rica with data plan sort of anywhere in the world. So at that time, Zoom was becoming popular. Slack was becoming popular.
00:10:10
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And in 2017, 16, 18, that area we start to see GitLab. which was the pinnacle, like the best, most successful remote work company in the world.
00:10:22
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So then we had InDesign. People will not remember Figma killed their market, but there was a company called InDesign, which was a $100 million price company, amazing design company, and they were fully remote. So we will start with so sort of start to see that trend is happening.
00:10:39
Speaker
And I was in Costa Rica in August 2019, And I really had a great ayahuasca experience. And I saw the whole cities in front of me that people are not living in cities anymore, like so some kind of a virus ah kind of situation.
00:10:55
Speaker
sure And then I was so much hearing about the world is we are expecting a pandemic. And then I was sitting with impalalto in Palo Alto and Stanford Starbucks in accelerator.
00:11:07
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So I really believe in accelerators. I benefited a lot from startup accelerators. So Stanford StartX is a great accelerator. And people start to ask, like, oh, how will I do remote work, Shayan? Like you are doing remote for 10 years, 20 years.
00:11:22
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like Like how we can hire someone in Germany. i said, oh, my God, the time has arrived. So I hit the domain name, remoteteam.com. And I bought that domain name.
00:11:33
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Man, I hit...
00:11:36
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$4,500 in my bank account. And my rent was $4,300 in Cupertino. Okay. yeah I told my wife, I emailed this guy randomly.
00:11:49
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I said, I want to buy a remote team and I have only $4,000 to give you. He said, oh my God, man, I'm getting married. I need money so much. If you trust me and send me the $4,000, I will give you the domain name in two weeks. Okay.
00:12:03
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I said, and now that domain name is a million dollars, like remote.com, you know, like what else you can get, right so man, I believed in this. like i it's trust That's trust right there.
00:12:16
Speaker
That's crazy trust. That's like idiot level trust. okay like Yeah, a little bit. Yeah. I didn't have money to pay my rent. Like our company was going horrible. And I said, okay, and this was, ah I don't remember the month, but it was 22 or 20th in the month.
00:12:32
Speaker
yeah And someone in LinkedIn emailed us, messaged us, saying that I want to invest in your company 10K. Like LinkedIn. Like this is like, okay, God and faith in in play here. Okay, so this domain name, I had to have it.
00:12:46
Speaker
And then I decided to start the company in October 2019. And the first version was very simple. Like we had the hourly employees,
00:12:58
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And we have full-time contractors. So RLU contractors and full-time contractors. I just want to don't calculate how much they work, how much I need to start spend, ah sand and I go need to go to a bank or transfer-wise and do it manually. I had my CTO, Adam, that he worked for me for six years at that time.
00:13:19
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I said, let's build a UI, very simple UI. Just solve our problem. Like we connect with nine different time-tracking apps. You will select this time as full-time or part-time.
00:13:31
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And then at the end of the month, it just kind of gives you a calculation. You click next, next, next. And in the early days, we were manually doing the payments. but But people thought we were automated.
00:13:43
Speaker
So we did a browser automation kind of thing, log in there, ah TransferWise or Mercury or PoolMoney. And that was our first version. And then very quickly, raised money.
00:13:56
Speaker
But I will tell you something that is perfectly matches the name of remote work. Okay? Please do. Yeah.
Growth and Acquisition of Remote Team
00:14:05
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During the remote team, I never had real face-to-face ah with my investors in US.
00:14:12
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I never met with my team face-to-face. I never met, we grow to 2,000 companies. I never met a single company. ah all over Zoom. And then we had six banking partners. This is like serious. likes yeah I still look at it like how the hell we were able to get them.
00:14:30
Speaker
We were two people company, no money in the bank account. It's shocking that I was able to pitch that and they give us like money transfer rights, right? Or Duvalla. We were able to pull ACH from people's bank account. It's crazy in my opinion.
00:14:44
Speaker
I didn't met with any of them. And during M&A, M&A the great story. So we built a product, we were growing. There was 50 different competitors. We were, in my opinion, one of the fives.
00:14:56
Speaker
So deal, remote, and few more. And we were like in the top five, yeah and all the market maps. And in my opinion, we were the fastest and the cheapest.
00:15:08
Speaker
so we were doing so many features and we were 15 versus deal was 49 remote was so i was the cheapest i had the company i really like jot form like that guy is doing this company for 25 years like it's unbelievable and now it's like two three hundred million dollar ar probably never raised money i don't know but it looks like never raised money So I was really thinking that we will do very cheap.
00:15:35
Speaker
I have great engineering teams around the world, Ghana, Turkey. It's very cost-effective. So I can just launch so many features. And features and launching that will be our A-B b test.
00:15:48
Speaker
And people will comment, i want this, I want that. So I created that culture. And this is a very Silicon Valley story, and we are finishing it. Two of my angel investors was user of my products, Adam Nash and Jude Komilo.
00:16:02
Speaker
and they were angel investor in gusto and they introduced us amazing love in first sight tomar is an amazing founder is the founder of gusto like super nice smiley person i oh my this is a great company and then we started as a partnership And then turn it into, like, let's buy you guys. Come here and build this region with this 300,000 companies we have.
00:16:29
Speaker
And I said, okay, why not? And I had a good term sheet at that time coming in. if i told them, if you guys give a similar offer, I will be, this will be my first piece job in life.
00:16:40
Speaker
I never did a real job. Like this will be my first salary job in life. So I'm a wild animal compared to these corporate animals. So I will, I don't know how I will fit a in the culture, but Gastro is a great company. So it's like, I was totally fitting there. Yeah.
00:17:00
Speaker
That's a long story, but that's the full story. No, but but hey, I asked you for that story. And I think it's great for our listeners to understand because you created, you are an entrepreneur, you created remote team, you created it pre pandemic, you sold it to an incredibly well respected company during the pandemic.
00:17:18
Speaker
but You stayed there for several years, you have invested in a tremendous amount of other companies. But also what we'd love to hear more about and what I would love to hear more about entrepreneur to entrepreneur is also ways that you were able to create real trust from your team, from your investors, from from your clients. Because when you're operating a global team, when you're hiring developers in Turkey, in Ghana, when you're getting...
00:17:46
Speaker
ah investors from Silicon Valley, from from all over, wherever they might be. And then you're building legit spirited partnerships and your people are trusting you.
00:17:58
Speaker
When you're able to do that remotely and when you're also fostering a great culture and getting your team and you had mentioned your your co-founder, your head of engineering who had been with you for six years or so.
00:18:08
Speaker
Obviously, there are components and behaviors that come with that sense of trust. So help help us understand how that operates within your wheelhouse.
00:18:19
Speaker
And I will tell you, i will add something way more crazy. When we started remote team, and when you look at the top times of remote team, we were 40 people, okay?
00:18:31
Speaker
Most of them are content creators and staff, all the part times, I'm adding everyone, right? But in reality, we were like 15 people full time. And none of them had any experience on what they are doing before.
00:18:47
Speaker
So my salesperson was the first salesperson, first sales job in life. My CTO, it was his first CTO job in his life. Our engineers, I had fired one of them before and hired them one of them. is All of them were nearly junior.
00:19:05
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Like, ah only added my CTO was probably more experienced, way more experienced than others. Later on in our last three months before M&A, we had someone called Jeff Forken, where he was like from CurrencyCloud, very smart guy, amazing salesperson. We said, oh my God, this guy's a fintech nerd.
00:19:26
Speaker
He joined us as like the partnership fintech, like the product. person like he was uh the only person we hired to as like mid-level even my ux ui was out of a color out of a ux school ah boot camp it was her first ux experience in life yo so what are the secret ingredients then you had to look for something that was it was it trust was a grit was it just it you you empower your people I think this is how i I always
Vision and Team Building
00:19:59
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give the feeling, and I have this feeling. It's not like a fake feeling.
00:20:03
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Yeah. But the vision of what we are doing in remote team will be one of your best life learning experience that will change your life. So that is always the core of, like, I pitch the vision so strongly.
00:20:21
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And everyone believed that when you put like all of your life into this, this is your, like ah I really pitched the company sort of like a school. like It's really a different kind of school that, okay, we are building a company.
00:20:38
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this Unfortunately, money revenue is important. But ah I give people and obsession and I look for people who will dedicate their life.
00:20:52
Speaker
on what we are building. And then I see it on the results as well. Like and we have people who work 60 hours, 70 hours, 80 hours on time tracking. And I also try to motivate them with the extra overtime as well. So if someone plays overtime, and more than 45 hours, I always pay the overtime as well, like a bonus, like 1.5, sometimes two x sometimes one twenty five xs So I don't believe they do it for money, but they they do it for, oh my God, I'm building something super cool. We are one of the first in the world.
00:21:29
Speaker
Like they really work. And I um always hire very young people as well. So when they join, oh my God, this is a great company that I join.
00:21:41
Speaker
And it's always their first Silicon Valley company in their life. And all of this motivation, in my opinion, and Adam was a great engineering leader too.
00:21:53
Speaker
He worked so hard. I worked so hard. Then it sort of happened, in my opinion. Then it's dumb people believe in the cause, ah the vision, the mission we had that we will be a great, great, great company.
00:22:08
Speaker
And I believe that that makes people really work. I wish... Although my team were obsessed with small businesses, but they are not. That's difficult to find. But at least obsessed on the culture. and my I have an engineering book.
00:22:26
Speaker
I have around million followers in Turkey. ah Probably like 90% is Turkish, 10% is US. i I have a big following on the engineering community in Turkey and in GitHub as well and Hacker News too.
00:22:42
Speaker
So I can also spot engineers who will be like these best zero to one engineers. Like they, they will like, if you leave these guys alone and really give them a good idea, they can build a billion dollars startup by themselves.
00:22:58
Speaker
Like this is the people I hire. Yeah. That's awesome. Have there, was there ever a time when you felt uncertain when you were building remote team or stuck?
00:23:09
Speaker
Every single day I feel uncertain. i think Every day. Yep, every day. well this cool should i add every day Every day. Every day. Holy shit. Every day.
00:23:24
Speaker
$500,000. I'm already minus $800,000. So I will raise the money and the money is gone. it's It's every single day, in my opinion, is wherever your level is, when you start a new company, when you are exited or not.
00:23:37
Speaker
I didn't raise $100 million dollars for my startup. I wish I could. ah but I'm still suffering. like It's like my first startup. It's pretty crazy. Well, that's that's one of the reasons when we first talked that I i thought this would be a fun conversation because we we talked about startups, we talked about building, but also really talked about mentorship and the importance of just um the the level of trust that you just said that you that you give and that you provide where it's just inherently earned.
00:24:08
Speaker
you When you've brought people on board, you let them do your do their own thing, which is really important. Help us understand who are some mentors who've made a big impact on you.
00:24:21
Speaker
Yeah, this is a great question, but I didn't have any mentors that much in life. I had few founder friends. Jonas Bischoff was a star.
00:24:32
Speaker
What was his name? Jonas, Stackshare. Stackshare was a thing that you share your technical stack. He's a good friend of mine, a founder. I talk with him a lot.
00:24:43
Speaker
and But mentors are also friend tours. So think about the friend tours. Yeah, I think because my wife and my co-founder was my wife. So a sort of token return nonstop was the thing. But I never had an official mentor that knows way better than me and helped me.
00:25:00
Speaker
Like I'm very bad on that. I should get people who did ah a lot of, a lot of, a lot of ah success and helped me, but I i never had that. But I few friends that I can ask.
00:25:14
Speaker
And now PEF is a group that I really like. In my times, it didn't exist. Like PEF is, I don't know, three years old. So now you can find a lot of peers in every category you are, every level you are in.
00:25:30
Speaker
If you are C-stage, make a million-dollar ARR, and want to go to five or two, there's people now. But when I was doing startups ah like five years ago, I don't believe that kind of communities exist.
00:25:43
Speaker
So you you couldn't find, like, if you didn't get the money from a top-tier ah or you have an amazing I had one investor actually Larry Braithman he mentored me a lot actually he's a PEF member very successful and lawyer turn it into entrepreneur turn it into a investor I talk with him nearly every month I think when I look back he's sort of my mentor what what was his name one more time? Larry Braithman Larry Braithman yeah you should have him in the podcast pretty ah cool deep guy yeah
00:26:19
Speaker
So let's let's hear about what you're what you're working on now, what you're building out. can Anything you want to talk about, talk through? Yeah, it's a little bit stealth mode right now. Let's, yeah, it's like need to move more. For different time. We can talk about it. Yeah, yeah, for a few more months. No, we'll talk about it few months. What kind of career guidance would you give to, so as successful entrepreneur and someone who invests in a lot of different companies, what career advice would you give to those that are listening? Those that are younger, those that are middle-aged, those that are starting their own startups,
00:26:55
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Those that just are looking to pivot throughout their time where they might be?
Encouragement for Aspiring Entrepreneurs
00:26:59
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Yeah. So I believe the startup journey is a great journey.
00:27:06
Speaker
Okay. The reason is there is nothing in life that you're going to learn this much. And the more responsibilities you have in life, the more I think you learn, you grow.
00:27:20
Speaker
even It even changes your language. So if you talk with a Series D company, ah CEO, founder, it's very different than a seed stage company. Absolutely. how they communicate, the words that they are using, all the methodologies of thinking, what they are using.
00:27:39
Speaker
When you ask them a question or they are in a situation, they put them in the mental tools and then like can answer that. right So that you cannot learn this anywhere outside.
00:27:52
Speaker
You have to be in the journey of doing and building products. And when I look back, probably launched more than 100 things in my life.
00:28:04
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hundred 100. And when you add the features, probably 1,000. How many of them work? Like probably 5%. They went 3% and they work. And I have a successful one. you know' like So this is the harsh reality.
00:28:19
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You just do. And I think the founders are also a group of people that, you We have some kind of high conviction and some of how somehow a stupid belief that it will work and hope, right? You you work, you hope, but our thinking is always broken.
00:28:38
Speaker
And then you watch and you can't even get a customer. That splat on your face, constantly your life makes you stronger in my opinion.
00:28:49
Speaker
i It really makes it so great. Because you i have this imposter syndrome, you read all these tech branch people, these lovable guys, the 50 million error, five people in the company.
00:29:01
Speaker
you know, you hear all these crazy stories all the time and you are not even a 1,000, 1 to 1,000. one to one thousand of them, you know, and you launch it, you try to go to 100K.
00:29:13
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But that journey is doing and increasing your network and trying to do that and um and meeting with people on the journey because this is a small community. If you look at this, how many exited founders are there is like 10,000. How many unicorn founders out there?
00:29:35
Speaker
Another 10,000? There's not... More than 50,000 to 100,000 people really own the product, the region of it. I believe it's it's a great journey that that you can also turn into anything. You can turn into a lifestyle business.
00:29:52
Speaker
You can turn into VC-backed business. You can turn it into a service business, make money, but it's always also your own job. And in my opinion, if you can figure it out work-life balance while working, so for me, I rarely worked on Fridays in my life.
00:30:12
Speaker
Like rarely, probably always the half day, like all of my life. I always walked one or two times a day, sometimes in the morning, sometimes at five, six o'clock with my friend or my wife or ah have a call with a board member or someone and traveled a lot.
00:30:31
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I've really traveled a lot because if you have a startup spending millions of dollars, ah you collect a lot of points, you're great you know, that you can travel. So in my opinion,
00:30:44
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like When you do your own business, you are your own boss. You don't need to ask, ah can I go to a dentist or can I do this? right So that freedom, in my opinion, just that energy freedom,
00:31:00
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you have a freedom, like should make you to build a million dollar business. Because that freedom is, doesn't exist in ah in a real, I will say a company, because you have a boss, that boss can be money up, and you need to get a permission to go to a dentist, like what the fuck?
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Like what the hell, you know? Is that- agree more. There is a slavery, there's worse than slavery in my opinion. It's a very antiquated methodology. Yes. ah Yeah. So that's why I'm a big believer in remote work. I'm a big believer in this AI world.
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And I'm coding few things with Replet. ah Replet. Replet, right? Replet. i Yeah, yeah. And it's magical. Like I'm just putting voice, sending screenshots. Yeah.
00:31:46
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Now I will try to do. So I said, yeah, I want to build a stock tables. You know, I just want to create my own columns like Airtable for those companies I like. And there's some things that I follow in their stock, right? I just want to see that.
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And it doesn't exist. drives me nuts. So I said, like, let me go and replicate. Ah, we use Polygon AI, Polygon I.O. to get this stock, build a table. I send screenshots. I'm in like prompt hundreds.
00:32:14
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I have a serious product right now. a This will allow so many people to build unbelievable great businesses, I think. so this is yeah This has been great, Shaheen. When you think about what we are building for OhHello, and when you think about ah talent, when you think about people, when you think about learning and development, when you think about...
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enriching people and creating access for businesses to provide mentorship to their employees where they can get smarter. What comes to mind? Yeah, I think your question comes to mind. like Motivation is, in my opinion, when you look at us remotely, like we sold remotely in 580 days during COVID when people were dying, right? People were losing their businesses, right? It was an unbelievable product for unbelievable time with an unbelievable team.
00:33:13
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And I think the core was motivation. So, and a when I talk with my team, I always motivate them. So I sometimes spend hours. When you talk with me in in the company, I only talk maybe five, 10 minutes business, but the rest of the time, 20 minutes will be motivation.
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so But that, unfortunately, motivation does not exist ah because I don't have a lot of time, right? It except exists limitedly, right? That's why I always record and share my videos with my team, right?
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So it doesn't exist that much. I wish you have a coach that you start every day that really sort of knows what you are doing and put in the ah right track I think that single can change every company's fate and every person's fate. And it's i'm good I'm very happy that you are working to solve that issue, by the way. Thank you.
00:34:11
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Thank you. that's That is is part of what we're working on It's all about motivation and access. So this has been awesome. I appreciate you hopping on. We, the Ohilo community, and our audience really appreciates it.
00:34:25
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Thank you. This has been great. Thank you having me. Thank you. Cool. Thanks.