@Alenugz Thank you so much for all your support; it was great to start on this path together. Joining forces, teaming up, learning so much, facing uncertainty, overcoming fail, and moving forward. Letโs keep building!๐
7 weeks of intensive building: AI Builders MX - La Residencia, launched by @benkimbuilds
It involved plenty of challenges, experimentation, entrepreneurship, strategic pivots, and learning.
Thanks to the whole crew of new builder friends.
#aibuildersmx#keep#building
@luiciernaga_@benkimbuilds ๐Luisa thank you so much for your support and sharing your advice. Your level of expertise is incredible! Oh more pivots coming soon,jaja. It's true, this is just the beginning, I'll keep that in mind. Let's keep building!! And we really should design those tattoos residency๐
@benkimbuilds It was an incredible experience; everything happened that I never would have imagined would happen.
A super intensive pace, a lot of learning, and a new mindset!
Meeting new builders friends has been very inspiring.
Ben, thank you so much for your support and mentorship!
7 weeks ago I launched La Residencia, a first of it's kind, #aibuildersmx residency in Mexico City.
From 300 applicants I championed 10 builders. I selected each person because something resonated - potential, passion, spirit, curiosity, hunger, and grace. Someone who wasn't given their shot. A builder inexperienced and raw but hungry to learn. An entrepreneur without a community.
La Residencia was a collective community experiment to test the limits of communal learning, growth, experimentation, entrepreneurship, failure, and success - in what is to be considered the lonely experience of entrepreneurship.
What was transformative and perspective changing is and always will be the people. We created something powerful and magical out of nothing. We willed together a feeling indescribable and gave endlessly to each other.
As a collective we built 10+ products, pivoted 4 times, and monetized 4 businesses.
Personally, the last 7 weeks have been a huge test of my will and spirit. 4 countries traveled, 6 cities, 14 hour days, 6 products launched / 2 monetized, 2 work teams built, and thousands of slack messages sent - all while managing main job commitments and leading the residency and being a participant of it. I gave it my all and then some. I learned and failed a lot.
This kind of project has never been done this way in Mexico. It's what made it worth trying. The feedback I received from my network, friends, and local mentors was validation enough that what we were doing was culturally unique and radical in this market. I hope this inspires others to follow suit in their own ways.
This has been my most important tech community project. It's hard to express this in words, right now I can only feel the emptiness that it's over and the gratitude that it happened.
Lastly, thank you to our residents for contributing to this program, your trust in me, and for giving it your all.
To our residents, what did you think?
@BerCam__@sofiasofian@mitzi_yz@Alenugz@luiciernaga_@_is_isaac@aehbonilla@corleone_gmi@oveddan
I was exploring the main explore creations page on @reve and spotted some of my contest submissions featured on the feed!
Seeing them highlighted alongside so many talented creators is super motivating.
#GenerativeAI#DigitalArt#Creators#AICommunity