Elise Martin

We just hit 30 days worth of signups in a SINGLE day.

1M+ people saw us in today s Product Hunt newsletter, and Jesse is officially becoming a sales household name (an officehold, if you will ).

1. I've always been on the personal brand side. More and more founders are building it now (sometimes even before the product is ready while it's still in development, before seed fundraising). The CEO builds their position so the product sells more easily at the official launch.

2. But I have experience with people who built the product, scaled it, and only then did we discover who was behind it.

Honestly, with the first approach, I'd be concerned that people invest more in me as a person than in the product. People would idealise the founder and overlook the product's flaws (which could hurt development and constructive feedback).

+ I noticed the most common mistake that many people who started building a personal brand first, connected their product to their personal accounts (emails, social media, etc.) and started having a problem selling these things, because they cannot "give someone keys" to their personal profiles.

A few days ago, Bytedance (which is also responsible for TikTok) announced a new model for generating videos. According to an article on Techcrunch, Hollywood isn t happy.

Because, apparently, it s competition.