Founder's Obsession: Conor Brennan-Burke's Customer-First Approach | Dasha Shunina posted on the topic

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He fixed a customer bug 20 minutes before his Y Combinator interview. Six rejections. Living in a closet. No revenue. Most founders optimize for optics. Conor Brennan-Burke optimized for customers. Now he’s building Hyperspell (YC F25) — AI infrastructure for a future where digital workers outnumber humans — together with his co-founder, Manu Ebert. This conversation is about obsession. And what it really takes to win. 🔗 Watch it — link in the comments. TALKS WITH DASHA

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A lot of people forget is that the whole point of a company is to help people. Instead of it being about what we wanna build, it's who do we wanna help? I think the core of a startup is it's ultimately a story. I think people spend way too much time on the idea. I have no revenue, no products, 6 YC rejections, right? Just became obsessed with this problem. And, you know, no Silicon Valley connections. My parents are not intact and from a tiny village of 2000 people. And I was living in a closet in a hacker house when you had demo Day and you were. Did you feel emotionally? So at one level is like, wow, this is magical. This is something I've wanted for years and I've been working on for years the same time. In the line to present a demo day there was a customers that was asking questions in Slack and I was like hammering out a response. We'll have more AI agents on the Internet than humans. It's gonna be a very different world in a few years. Like the vast majority of our customers will be agents. Dating is like Angel investing. Red flag if a founder is focused on it before serious. Can you explain it? One of my core beliefs is that you should only have one big project you called data.

Dasha Shunina 5mo

🔗 Watch the full episode on TALKS WITH DASHA : https://youtu.be/HEX8Gf7hNq0?si=Qs-dsxa-eGgE7wix

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Puzzle 5mo

Our own Dasha Shunina and one of our favorite clients Conor Brennan-Burke in one video. What can be better?!

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Manu Ebert 5mo

Let's go Conor :)

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Dennis Vichikov 5mo

So true! You should only have one project

Hyperspell 5mo

obsessed with customers. must be the 'tism

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Conor Brennan-Burke 5mo

The closet at Mission Control is quite comfortable actually! Thanks Dasha for sharing our story

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Abdul-Rahman Abidemi 5mo

Conor Brennan-Burke spills out all important tips. 🚀

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Fatma Ezzahra 5mo

Dasha Shunina It’s really impressive how you manage to host such great events and run a podcast at the same time. Recently started watching the videos.. Very insightful!

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Chirag Kulkarni 5mo

Hyperspell (YC F25) ships like nobody else its insane

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Rohan Shukla 5mo

Just know Conor Brennan-Burke is the realest in the game

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