Omar Zenhom argues AI speeds up product development but can't handle founder decisions, liability, or reputation. You need a team and systems for marketing, sales, and finance. Stay close to customers to understand what they actually need.
AI can help you build and iterate fast, especially in the early days, so you can build the product that people actually want. But it can't help you things like decision-making, liability, growth, reputation. All that stuff is on your shoulders. You need to be the leader and you need to be the person that's in charge of making sure that gets done, whether by you or somebody else. From the start, make sure you have that founder mindset. Understand that you cannot do everything at scale. So you need to start building a team. And even the first step of building a team is building the systems around that team. So when somebody joins your team, you can give them a system and say, hey, this is how you do this part of the business. This is how you do marketing. This is how you do sales. This is how finance is done. So that way you can easily hand it over to them and train them. Talk to your customers, understand what their needs are so that you can build based on that. Understand that your job is not only to create a great product, but a great experience for your customers, and that means building a great business.
