Nolan Vu

I used to think staying invisible was the safer move. Let the product do the talking, no personal baggage attached to it. That was my plan for the first year of building.

Then I watched two founders in my own network launch almost identical tools within a month of each other. Same market, similar pricing. The one who'd been posting his half-baked thoughts and failures on Twitter for a year got 10x the traction on launch day. The other one, better product honestly, got maybe 40 upvotes and went quiet.

That messed with my head a bit, not gonna lie.

Most intros start with a bio. Mine starts with a number: 80%. That's roughly how many enterprise AI pilots never make it to production. I've watched it happen up close, more than once.

I spent 6+ years in SEO and content before crossing over into building AI products. Funny enough, the switch happened for a boring reason: I got tired of writing content about AI tools and wanted to actually ship one.

Sharing this because I would have wanted someone to tell us earlier.

Mistake 1: We assumed teams wanted maximum autonomy.