Because you see people like Babajide talk openly about their successes and you think it's beans. That man used to have hair.
What happened to his hair? Career.
How 22-Year-Old Jia Chen (@jia_seed) Got Angel Investors in Under 12 Hours.
When Hugging Face co-founder @Thom_Wolf followed her, she DM'd him: "Can I pitch you tomorrow at 2:30 PM PST?" He said sure, and by the call he was already in.
She's the co-founder and CEO of @wespreadjam a growth engineering team of proactive AI agents for early GTM teams.
We got into:
•How she got angels in under 12 hours on X
•Why she stopped raising at 2x what they needed •Showing the journey instead of waiting for the win •Growth engineering: systems that run without you
•Her 1,300-page journal and violin at dawn
•Single until Series B?
𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒
(00:00) Losing Until I Win
(04:00) What Jam Does
(08:02) Onboarding Startups Office by Office
(09:37) Growth Engineering: Systems That Run Without You
(10:49) What Lovable's CTO Told Her
(14:04) Show the Journey, Not the Win
(14:50) The DM That Landed Hugging Face's Co-Founder (18:01) Raising 2X What They Needed
(19:31) Her 1,300-Page Journal
(20:39) Violin at Dawn
(Never Shared Before)
(25:51) Single Until Series B?
(35:53) 605 Days of Pull-Ups
(38:29) Letters to Her Future Self
(40:26) What's Next for Jam
This is a @Composio "Agents at Work" podcast, where I chat with founders building the next leap of AI.
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The simplest way to build an audience is to just share what you're working on, but most founders don't do it because creating and editing video content is too painful.
Vyra just makes it so easy now, it's like having a dedicated video editor on your team. Def check it out!