Charlie Liu[Founder’s Real Talk #24] Worried too much about how GPT-4 will replace you?As a founder in the knowledge work services space, I’d be lying to you if I’m not losing sleep over anxiety of how AI will disrupt this…Apr 1, 2023Apr 1, 2023
Charlie Liu[Founder’s Real Talk #23] Silicon Valley Bank crisis & Generative AI disruptionHaven’t been writing since we had our board meeting and strategic discussions. It was a good trip to the east coast and a good change of…Mar 17, 2023Mar 17, 2023
Charlie Liu[Founder’s Real Talk #22] Building trust with your investorsLast weekend I was hanging out with another founder friend. He’s a first time founder of a seed-stage startup. The startup taps into a…Feb 24, 2023Feb 24, 2023
Charlie Liu[Founder’s Real Talk #21] Distributed Work and Async CommunicationOne of the superpowers of our startup is our distributed work model. However, as our team has grown, keeping a balance between async and…Feb 18, 2023Feb 18, 2023
Charlie Liu[Founder’s Real Talk #20] Default alive and race to the bottomThe economic downturn has dragged on for almost a year. And the layoff is getting worse and worse. More and more investors have been…Feb 3, 2023Feb 3, 2023
Charlie Liu[Founder’s Real Talk #19] Founder Market FitThis weekend I met with an amazing founder with a fascinating story. She started her startup originally as a non-profit idea and pitched to…Jan 15, 2023Jan 15, 2023
Charlie Liu[Founder’s Real Talk #18] Dealing with time zones in distributed workOne of the biggest challenges of distributed work is the time difference. You can try your best to balance sync and async communications…Dec 23, 2022Dec 23, 2022
Charlie Liu[Founder’s Real Talk #17] What does ChatGPT mean for the future of AI?This article is translated by ChatGPT from my original Chinese post, and was intentionally not proofread — so I can demonstrate the…Dec 12, 20221Dec 12, 20221
Charlie LiuinStartup Stash[Founder’s Real Talk #16] Lessons From The Fallout of FTX And SBFLast Wednesday, SBF spoke at NYT DealBook’s annual conference. He was basically interrogated by Andrew Ross Sorkin.Dec 4, 20221Dec 4, 20221
Charlie LiuinStartup Stash[Founder’s Real Talk #15] Focus on and appreciate what you haveThe fiasco continues — Stripe, Twitter, FTX, Meta, Amazon…Tens of thousands of people lost jobs, and those who are lucky enough to keep…Nov 19, 2022Nov 19, 2022