How Impatient Should Founders Be In The Pre-AGI Era?

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

September 29, 2025

Duration

15m

Channel

Dalton + Michael

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

In this episode of Dalton + Michael, the two discuss several topics: How impatient should founders be in the AI era? If it seems like everything is moving very fast, does that mean work that takes a while is not worth doing? Is there a cheat code to guarantee startup success? If you are curious to learn more about "The Manual" on how to write a number 1 hit song, this is a good place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manual Dalton + Michael is brought to you by @Standard_Cap You can find Dalton Caldwell on X here: https://x.com/daltonc and Michael Seibel here: https://x.com/mwseibel

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Dalton Caldwell

  host

  Startup founder and accelerator leader focused on early-stage company building.

• Michael Seibel

  host

  Entrepreneur and startup accelerator partner focused on helping founders build and scale companies.

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Dalton + Michael, featuring Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel, How Impatient Should Founders Be In The Pre-AGI Era? explores balance urgency and patience when building startups in AI era They argue that the AI era rewards early movers who deliberately choose what to learn and build, but that doesn’t invalidate the timeless reality that great work takes years.

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