A former NotebookLM lead at Google left after the product took off to start Huxe with co-founders. After 2.5 years building NotebookLM, they spent a month brainstorming and spotted an opportunity in audio that became the new company.
NoteBookLM was like one of the coolest things I'd ever, ever seen. And now you're doing a startup called Hux. What's that journey been like? And like, how did you go from doing NotebookLM at Google and to now you're doing this new startup?
Like, we did get connected right after NotebookLM kind of blew up towards the end of last year. Coincidentally, that was around the same time that me and my co founders, we were like, hey, we've done it. This thing's gone big. After working on it for about two and a half years, we were like, what do we want to do? I feel like if there was ever a time to do a startup, it will be now. Obviously, like, so many interesting reasons. It's so funn because people are always like, wow, you must have had such a great idea to quit your job. If we could ever feel that there was a time to do anything new, to do anything interesting, to just have the courage to do it, it was then and so we quit and we actually spent like a month, honestly, just like brainstorming. Hanging out at my house, where we eventually ended up, is actually not too different, I would say, from like what helped Notebook LM take off. But we knew there was something interesting in the audio space and hence Hux was more.
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