gen z mafia

Sudarshan Sridharan is a 20-year-old co-founder of the wildfire prediction startup Fion.tech, and co-creator of the Gen Z Mafia. We discuss: How to launch a tech startup when you're only 20; how VCs want deal flow but college kids want party flow; how awkward outcasts can "flip the switch" to start networking; how to use Twitter; and the benefits of being silent and elevating others.

➡️  Suds' startup predicting wildfires: Fion.tech
➡️  Fion is hiring engineers and enterprise sales (email suds@fion.tech)
➡️  Follow Sudarshan on Twitter @itzsuds

Like I literally just showed up to school, carrying around a bag of king-sized Skittles around my dorm, and anybody who was like, "Yo, can I get some Skittles?" I'd be like, "Give me your Snapchat." And so naturally that first day I got... 200 people added me and then one guy was like, "Hey, come to this party."

I went to that party. And then I started posting those parties on my Snapchat. So within the first week of school, I had 2000 people who added me, like freshmen who are looking for parties. Very quickly I knew, like how VCs want deal flow, kids want party flow. So if I just give them all these parties, people are gonna like me. From there I realized, "OK, I've got this following. I should probably be using it." So I started like just posting, basically like my Snapchat became my blog, a blog of my life and I learned very quickly how to push content, and that might seem not that important, but I think community building is a lot of... finding people of a general demographic and then adding value to them.

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Gen Z Mafia is a Discord server incubating teenage billionaires. I talk with one of the ringleaders about community design, Gen Z psychology, and business models.

What is the Gen Z Mafia and what kind of projects are people working on?
How to make your community open and also filter for quality.
Is Gen Z Mafia a business model?
Are they more interested in venture capital or bootstrapped businesses?
What do Gen Zers see that older folks don't?

Sudarshan Sridharan is the cofounder of Fion. Their software utilizes a proprietary machine-learning algorithm to detect fires as soon as they start, accurately predicts when and where fires will spread to, and how much financial damage they’ll cause.

Listen to this episode if:

• You are interested in fire detecting software
• Want to hear the origin story of Fion
• Want to hear the future vision for this company

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About this episode: Anish Agnihotri is a member of the Gen Z Mafia.  Gen Z Mafia is a community of young builders dropping products every few weeks, starting with Vibes

Listen to this episode if you:

• Want to know what Vibes is
• Are curious about how they all met
• Want to know how they leverage GPT-3 within vibes
• Are curious about how Anish uses Twitter
• Want to hear the big vision for the Gen Z Mafia

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