Peter Hwang's videos and podcasts

Peter Hwang (@unstuckwithpeterhwang): "Dear Founder Who Feels Lost"

AI Is Removing The Hard Parts Of Entrepreneurship. What Are We Losing?

Peter Hwang (@unstuckwithpeterhwang): "What makes an idea powerful is not its originality. My idea for my first company was just copied from a similar business but it took off. And that first company still exists until today. 30 yrs later."

Peter Hwang (@unstuckwithpeterhwang): "If the market takes away the version of success you planned for, do you have it in you to build something from the wreckage? Because what you build in the wreckage often matters more than what you lost."

Peter Hwang (@unstuckwithpeterhwang): "You walk into rooms for two months before you understood why the conversations kept dying politely. You had a big market and a good story. What you didn't have was an alpha test anyone could poke at. Investors don't fund stories. They fund evidence that a story is starting to …"

Peter Hwang (@unstuckwithpeterhwang): "Conviction isn't the same as certainty and confusing the two will quietly drain you. Certainty waits for proof. Conviction keeps building while the proof is still on its way."

Peter Hwang (@unstuckwithpeterhwang): "But here is the problem. If AI is just your shortcut to copy something that already exists, you have not built a business. You have built something that can be replicated by the next person with the same tools, probably by next week. What I look for as an investor, and what I t…"

Peter Hwang (@unstuckwithpeterhwang): "Many companies don’t begin with a polished strategy or a detailed business plan. They begin with observation. You notice something people clearly want and instead of just observing it, you try to build around it."

Peter Hwang (@unstuckwithpeterhwang): "Hi Illai. I think we’re in the same space, venture advisory."

Peter Hwang (@unstuckwithpeterhwang): "The Stage You Thought You Finished is Probably the One You're Still In "

Peter Hwang (@unstuckwithpeterhwang): "The company wasn't failing. It was succeeding at the wrong thing, which is harder to diagnose than outright failure because the numbers give you just enough hope to keep pushing. Pushing harder in the wrong direction doesn't get you closer, it just makes the eventual correctio…"

The Stage You Thought You Finished is Probably the One You're Still In

Peter Hwang (@unstuckwithpeterhwang): "Revenue on the page doesn't always mean the thing underneath is clean. I've seen founders hit a number and still feel unsure and usually that discomfort is accurate. Maybe the acquisition cost isn't sustainable. Maybe what looks like traction was one campaign that won't produ…"

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Peter Hwang (@unstuckwithpeterhwang): "Companies don’t fail, founders just get tired."

Peter Hwang (@unstuckwithpeterhwang): "If the whole thing only works when you're personally making it work, you haven't built a business yet. You've built a job that depends on you showing up as the hero every single day. This one is hard for founders to hear because the heroics feel like proof of commitment. The…"

Peter Hwang (@unstuckwithpeterhwang): "A promotion or discount can create a spike in sales. That's useful if you're testing demand or acquiring customers but it's not the same thing as proving you've built a business that customers come back to on its own. The businesses that compound are the ones where demand conti…"

Peter Hwang (@unstuckwithpeterhwang): "There’s this company that had revenue coming in for years and genuinely believed it was working. When we looked closely, the customers signing up were the wrong ones, quietly underusing the product and churning out the back while new ones came in the front. The revenue was rea…"

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Peter Hwang (@unstuckwithpeterhwang): "Great question. Honestly, the root cause is almost always the same: lack of clarity on who they're for and what problem they're solving. When that's fuzzy, when your ICP is unclear, the marketing doesn't land, the sales conversations feel forced, and every next step feels uncert…"

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Peter Hwang (@unstuckwithpeterhwang): "Here's the trap almost nobody sees coming because it's dressed up as good news. You have customers, you have revenue and on any given week the numbers give you something to feel good about. When revenue shows up but won't repeat on its own, something underneath is quietly br…"

Peter Hwang (@unstuckwithpeterhwang): "A little bit of news to share... About a month ago, I was invited by Forbes to become a Forbes Contributor, writing about startups, entrepreneurship, AI, innovation and how the landscape for founders is rapidly evolving. My first reaction was, that's pretty cool. I do have a L…"

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Peter Hwang (@unstuckwithpeterhwang): "I've watched a founder build something people tried once out of curiosity, used for the automation it replaced and quietly walked away from the actual thing being pitched. The product wasn't wrong. What's wrong is the read on why people showed up. If someone tried what you're…"

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