Wen Sang, co-founder of Genspark.ai, who shares his entrepreneurial journey from founding Smarking to achieving rapid growth with his AI company.
The episode features Wen Sang, co-founder of Genspark.ai, who shares his entrepreneurial journey from founding Smarking to achieving rapid growth with his AI company. He discusses the importance of having the right people in a startup, emphasizing that 'PEOPLE Trump Problems' and how investors prioritize trust.
So at the end of the day when it comes to capital I mean we all probably know that it's although we there is a lot of diligence work but it's a you know trust based decision uh right so uh the seat round was uh raised by Eric my coer who built a company before this from 0 to 5.5 billion and he's built amazing trust and relationship with investors for example in Singapore and that was where our C round was from and it was just yo hey uh they know that hey Eric yo you're going to build build this new thing. What you work on may change, but we trust you, right? You you've shown. So, this is it's it's that now they just, you know, looked at us and they were like, "Wow, this this is exactly how we look at the future of work. This is exactly how the world is going to move, you know, based off our own." So, we have that shared, you know, worldview. We have that shared kind of in those
situations. It's not about there's no conviction needed. It's really dis people discovering each other and then instantly you know that hey we're thinking about and looking at this exactly the same way right it's all underneath it's all human trust based off you know shared values shared world view um you know the the history of working together and so on so forth history today we raised uh $460 million Stars.