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“Six months ago, I was some random college kid in a dorm and now I feel like I'm at the center of the tech universe.”
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Makes Cluely's distribution system itself the subject, tying backlash, virality, social-native launch craft, and enterprise revenue into a founder narrative about attention as moat.
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- 0:00- Six months ago, I was some random college kid in a dorm
- 0:02and now I feel like I'm at the center of the tech universe.
- 0:05- Something like really strange and special happening here.
Open on expulsion, cheating, or “main character” controversy, then argue that the outrage itself created protection, demand, and a launch surface for Cluely's broader AI company.
Founder interviews and tech podcasts reframing backlash as proof that attention, demand, and product direction are compounding together · 26 creators · 26 posts
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