Jesse Zhang's videos and podcasts

The coolest moment for me last night happened after someone in the audience asked, “Why would I use ...

A year ago at VidSummit we launched Beam, our AI teammate for creators, and we didn't expect anyone ...

We just hit 5k followers on Instagram! 🎉 It took 27 days to get to 200, then 14 more to get to 5,00...

Creators go to a lot of events. Conferences. Brand dinners. Launch parties. Creator meetups. Indust...

Hosting this at the Beacons SF office next Thursday 👀 Excited to get a bunch of creators + founders...

Sephora told Jordan Matter his teen skincare line probably wouldn't sell, because Ariana Grande's be...

One of the first people I ran into walking into VidSummit was Timothy, a creator I connected with a ...

For the first time in a while, everyone on our team is about to start leading user interviews, so I ...

Going to VidSummit this week? We’ve been compiling as much of VidSummit as we can find into Beam: →...

Two days ago I posted about how embarrassing it was to lead product at a creator company and only ha...

Neal, Maxine, and I are heading to Vidsummit next week. One problem we’ve always had with conferen...

I lead product at a creator AI startup. It took me about a month to get to 200 followers on Instagra...

One of our engineers spent a Friday building a tool so our AI mascot Beam can make memes of itself (...

Jenny Ming was voted most bashful in middle school. She went on to be a founding member of Old Nav...

The first time an event really blew my mind as a growth strategy was a Brex party. August 2019, ri...

I see too many young founders confusing working longer hours with making progress. You know, the w...

I dug up my journal from YC in 2019 after Neal came back from Demo Day last week. Apparently this ...

David cold emailed Kelvin almost five years ago. Kelvin didn't even really know what link in bio was...

We're on a mission to build Beam—the smartest, most capable AI teammate possible for creators. KERNE...

I've been posting longer than the guy who now runs my content sessions. He still runs circles around...

In early 2021, I was Chief Product Officer of a link in bio company, and I couldn't use my own produ...

Ego is the quiet killer of founder relationships and good business decisions. "But don't you need e...

A company can only grow as fast as its founders do. That's a part of startup growth nobody puts on ...

I've sat through hundreds of user interviews. A broken camera taught me more than all of them. Last...

In October 2020, I had written down "Our company dies on June 7." Eight months of runway. Weekly gr...

I just hit 100 followers, which may as well be 100k for the version of me who was too scared to post...

There's one question that'll teach you more about your product than the next 20 combined. When I fi...

Lately I've been meeting a lot of people between 20 and 23, and every one of them makes me feel like...