This is a YouTube video titled "Build in public... my newsletter and my story of pro bono consulting in Cambodia #founderspotlight" created in June 2025. It features a conversation between Robert Ta and another speaker discussing Robert's weekly newsletter, his pro bono consulting experience in Cambodia, reflections on leadership and personal growth, and his work on lead generation and a large engineering transformation project. The content provides a behind-the-scenes look at Robert Ta's founder brand and his ongoing projects.
Build in Public Daily Update with Epistemic Me this is Robert so I'm just.
Prepping the newsletter that I write weekly.
For my own founder brand. Goes out in 50 minutes. I just like doing some last minute perfectionism to be honest, editing and making sure it's okay. This is the behind the scenes of my substack on this newsletter.
Have about 1500 subscribers.
Some of them are paid.
I actually don't pay wall anything so thank you Shout out to the friends.
That decided to pay for this.
I'll keep writing every week. If you want to support feel free. But I don't ask for money.
This isn't for that.
I just want to get the stories out there and share some of my mental models and frameworks and share our.
Built in public updates and our story of building Epistemic Me into a trillion dollar market defining new category in a couple decades. So this is the start.
So I'm writing today about an experience that I had doing a pro bono.
Consulting gig in Cambodia with the Cambodia.
Children's Fund to solve education equity problems. And from this experience actually I drew a lot of fuel for the fire and passion that I have for Epistemic Me because that experience was very transformative. It shed a lot of my limiting beliefs on what leadership was and where my own self love kind of comes.
From and where my drive sort of.
Comes from and some of the family.
Dynamics I had growing up as a Vietnamese immigrant family.
So I wrote this reflection about I think five years ago or so and I haven't really shared the full thing out in public. I'm sharing part two today and this is a multi part newsletter series with this story. So that's cool. Got some work to do to generate leads. So refined my cold LinkedIn outbound DM system popped open. Sales Navigator, shout out a bunch of.
Lead gen kind of cold DM outbound messages.
So just gotta get leads, gotta go hunting. That's. That's what you gotta do to get money, right? What else am I doing today? Oh, I got a lot of stuff to do with the day job as well. So some big meetings at the SVP VP level for a 1600 engineer transformation project that I'm leading. That'll be fun, normal stuff. And I gotta exercise. That's it for today. Have a good one.
