Ryan Wang, founder of Assembled, shares his entrepreneurial journey, highlighting the difficulties of launching a business.
Ryan Wang, founder of Assembled, shares his entrepreneurial journey, highlighting the difficulties of launching a business. The discussion covers various aspects of startup life, from finding product-market fit to scaling big ideas and building a strong team, talented team.
Um I think the ability to say okay and here is what we're doing and why and we're going to stick through it for eight years 20 years you know 50 years and build a generational company. Um that is just so important to like we got lucky and that we were already obsessed with the problem and knew that but even then like our first product workforce management it was like that's your first product like now we have four products. So, so you have to be able to keep that uh um um that fire alive that goes beyond workforce management, customer support automation. um you know even AI for customer support which is a how but you know 20 years from now what will the what will what will that be it won't be AI it will be something else right um but that durability of that problem is scaring scaling operational challenges that come after big ideas which we only realized after we you know like we were
obsessed with customer support oh wait this is even bigger than customer support but I go back and say you know think hard about that really commit to it really figure out like why you're going to do this for a really long time and and make a big impact >> you know the when you were talking about this um you know whether you're waiting for eight months to be able to get you know things going the way that you had hoped for I mean it's just unbelievable the journey of being an entrepreneur