Andrew Antos shares his journey from growing up in a competitive environment to founding an AI company. Watch the full video — free, no account needed.
Andrew Antos shares his journey from growing up in a competitive environment to founding an AI company. He emphasizes the importance of communication in achieving startup success and discusses his fundraising experiences, including a Series B raise.
So, I think that from that perspective, what was your biggest takeaway from the lawyer years? Well, so so you're you're absolutely right. Right? Like you're starting from like a third base on a lot of these things. Right? So, you you already understand like, you know, how does a corporation work? And, you know, how do you sell? Uh you know, how do you issue stock and get an investment? And like, how do you do like equity grants and all of that stuff? Right? That's actually not the heart of the company. You still have huge amounts of companies that are super successful if they find really strong product market fit, even though the the founders originally know nothing about this. Right? So, it's a nice to have, but I don't think it's a must-have. I actually think the number one thing that I've learned there is like communication, especially written communication. So, just getting really
good at like writing emails. I know that sounds funny in the in the world of LLMs, but just being able to like write really good emails to get like your first customers when you're like, you know, reaching out cold. Um and like being very succinct and being able to articulate value really well. I think those were like the biggest the biggest learnings that I got there.