EP23: Building in public and the future of AI powered creative tools, with Paul Yacoubian, founder/CEO of Copy.AI

Paradigm Shift

Paul Yacoubian is the founder/CEO of Copy.AI. CopyAI is building AI-powered tools that help users automatically generate marketing copy in seconds, and has over 1M registered users.

Paul is an extremely positive and inspiring presence on twitter and has mastered the art of building in public. In this conversation we talk about Copy.AI, Paul’s approach to building in public, and the future of AI powered tools.

In this episode we discuss:

1. Building in public
   1. How did you get started building in public?
   2. What principles guide your online content?
   3. What have been the benefits of building online?
   4. How has it helped you get early adopters and investors?
   5. How do you approach how much time to spend on twitter?
   6. What advice do you have for someone getting started building in public?
2. Copy.AI and future of AI powered tools
   1. What is copy AI and what is the long term vision?
   2. How do people use Copy AI to generate copy and ideas?
   3. How do you make AI better at writing copy?
   4. What are some really popular use cases?
   5. How much of the AI is off-the-shelf vs your own models?
   6. How unique and defensible is the AI in workflow tools?
   7. How do users make the product better in workflow tools?
   8. What channels have worked best to acquire your 1M registered users?
   9. What has engagement, retention and monetization looked like?
   10. What do you think the future of AI powered creative tools looks like?
3. Closeout questions
   1. Who is the most talented person you have worked with and why?
   2. What are some superpowers you have identified in yourself and like to lean on?

Links

• Follow Paul on Twitter
• Check out Copy.AI

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