ai & weekends ep 11

​In 2012, Ben Silbermann was running a startup nobody used. A few hundred users. Investors ghosted him. His parents thought he'd lost it. The product? A virtual pinboard where people saved images they liked. Silicon Valley called it "a scrapbook on the internet" and moved on.

​Ben stopped pitching VCs. He walked into coffee shops and blogger meetups and showed people Pinterest one at a time. For months.

​It went on to hit 450 million users and a $40B valuation. Not from a genius launch. From a guy who believed in something everyone else thought was silly and refused to stop showing up.

​Back then, Ben needed engineers, designers, servers, and years of runway just to build version one.

Today? You can go from idea to working product in a single afternoon. AI writes your code, designs your UI, generates your assets. The gap between "I have an idea" and "here, try it" has never been this small.

​This Sunday — Episode 11 of AI & Weekends. Bring your laptop and that idea you've been sitting on. Or come find one. See you soon.