Season 2 · Episode 3 · 00:25:39
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In this episode, we sit down with Annie Liao, founder of BuildClub.
We explore her journey from a data scientist to launching BuildClub, a global community of AI builders, to raising their pre-seed round in 2024. Annie shares insights on raising, the evolution of her community-driven AI platform, her experiences seeing AI adoption first hand, and strategic community building.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Guest Interview: Annie Liao BuildClub (full)
00:37 Annie Talks SF
01:09 Annie's Background
02:46 BuildClub
05:48 AI market
08:00 Community
12:10 Raising the BuildClub Pre-Seed Round
16:03 How did Annie pitch BuildClub
17:59 Launching BuildClub Bounties and moving into Beta
19:30 Annie talks future plans
22:39 Annie's Tips
24:02 Top Upcoming founders
25:14 Thanks for being on the pod
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