On a random night last January, I sat down next to a guy at a poker table. A month later, we decided to start a company together. Little did I know, it would completely change my life.
The guy’s name was Raj. We started talking between hands, and Raj asked what I was working on.
“I've been trying to solve this scaling problem in personal growth,” I told him. “I was about to buy an AI company to do it, but the deal just fell through.”
“That's funny,” Raj said. “I've been building AI companies for ten years. Just exited my last one. I’ve spent a year on sabbatical figuring out what's next.”
I asked him what he landed on.
“Whatever I build next has to be in AI and mental health. Or AI and personal growth. I want to work on something that actually helps people at scale.”
I don’t believe in all that “the universe has a plan for you” crap, but this was like… whoa.
Raj and I kept talking. Over the next few weeks, we'd meet for what we thought would be one-hour lunches. Every time, we'd look up and it would be 4:30 in the afternoon. …
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