This episode is all about finding opportunity in frustration and turning it into a platform trusted by 1 million+ users including tech giants like Airbus and Wal Mart. Mike speaks to Tanmai Gopal the CEO and co-founder of Hasura that enables users to easily build, run, govern and evolve high-quality APIs for all types of data. Reliably providing them with accurate real time data that can then be used in numerous ways to serve customers effectively and drive growth.

Tanmai shares the story of Hasura’s development, how to scale effectively and how to use PromptQL to turn AI from a flaky assistant that regularly lets you down into a tool you can rely on.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

● Getting the timing right is crucial. Understand your market and product to work out what to focus on when and launch when the right tech and demand is there.

● The Hasura team started out by offering consultancy services and made good money, but they stopped doing this to focus on product development. You can´t spread yourself too thin.

● Identify the problem that is at the front of your customers minds, solve that and you will attract the product champions you need to gain momentum.

● Be cautious about how you use AI. Even with access to live data it still hallucinates. Prompt QL is making AI far more reliable.

● Letting the AI figure out how to achieve your objective and build its own program to achieve it is a far more effective way of using AI.

● If you are tempted to build your own product, just do it. You will soon know whether entrepreneurship is for you.

● Failing fast is still the most effective way to create a product that solves people's problems

BEST MOMENTS

2:39 "This episode is about finding opportunity in frustration and turning it into a platform trusted by tech giants."

25:20 "To have the experience of the best kind of products and have access to high quality, instant, secure data is essential."

32:34 "What´s really important is to be aligned to how people think about a particular problem – What is hot for them?"

48.17 “For AI to become a part of our day-to-day lives, it needs to become a part of our processes and our workflows.”

52.03 and 54.08 “We actually tell the AI to first plan what it wants to do with the data, then write a program to extract the right data, aggregate it and present it.”

56.23 “The business logic was the actual automation flow.”

1.13.28 “To be aware that there is a right time where things happen is very important.”

1.16.40 “You create the perfect timing by doing proper market research and just understanding the biggest problem spaces. You create a product when people are ready for that product, so the adoption is just simply there.”

ABOUT THE GUESTS

https://hasura.io

https://promptql.hasura.io

ABOUT THE HOST

Meet Mike, a seasoned tech entrepreneur and visionary with over two and a half decades of invaluable experience in founding and scaling successful tech start-ups. Mike brings a wealth of firsthand knowledge, and a deep understanding of the challenges faced by entrepreneurs and tech professionals.

As a host, Mike is dedicated to sharing actionable insights, strategies, and stories gathered from conversations with industry leaders, innovators, and experts. With a remarkable ability to distil practical wisdom from guests, Mike curates engaging discussions that resonate with both aspiring entrepreneurs and seasoned professionals.

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