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Farza Majeed

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Farza Majeed has been a guest on Y Combinator Startup Podcast and TBPN .

Recently: “This Is How You Should Actually Make Launch Videos” on Y Combinator Startup Podcast (October 2026); “The Social Reckoning Reactions, Fable 5 Sparks Safety Debate, 𝕏 Timeline Reactions | Farza Majeed, Trent Simonian, Sridhar Ramaswamy, Matthew Prince, Vinod Khosla, Ranjan Rajagopalan, Markie Wagner, Bret Taylor” on TBPN (June 2026).

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“It's so easy to pump out more code and more software, but it's harder than ever to actually talk about what you are doing in a coherent way in front of an audience. Because now, Aaron, you know, someone can clone my product in like two minutes at this point. But again, what they, what's really hard to clone is the audience and the community that I built around what I'm doing and the energy around it.” — Farza Majeed, Y Combinator Startup Podcast

The founder explains why a filmmaker was one of his first two hires, ahead of or alongside an engineer. At one point his company had three people making videos and one engineer.

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Y Combinator Startup Podcast Around 44:05 into the episode
Farza Majeed

…who who are way better at me my first two hires were i knew from the beginning even before i started my company it's gonna be number one a filmmaker and number two an engineer and it's number one is film is filmmaker for me so that is the first one um or whenever whatever order they can come in why

Aaron Epstein

was that so important to you i

Farza Majeed

…to make us look good when we launch as well and make us come off properly um and so that's why a filmmaker was one of the first hires i i made at this company and my last company our film team was two people we were only like a seven percent Person team. Yeah. So even at this company, at one point at Hey Clicky, we had three people making videos and one engineer. Because it's so funny now, it's so easy to pump out more code and more software, but it's harder than ever to actually talk about what you are doing in a coherent way in front of an audience. Because now, Aaron, you know, someone can clone my product in like two minutes at this point. But again, what they, what's really hard to clone is the audience and the community that I built around what I'm doing and the energy around it. If you had an audience around your company of say 100,000 people that was really into what you were doing, maybe enterprise AI, you know, maybe something around like photography or whatever, whatever your niche is, that'd be useful. Because that's why, you know, I can make a video now about a new feature and like thousands of people flood my app. That's awesome. That's like every founder's…

Aaron Epstein

Tell us more about the gear that you're using today to produce these videos.

Farza Majeed

Yeah. So for demos on my computer, which is just like what I'm hacking on that day, I always use this thing called Screen Studio. I think it's like made by some indie hacker. It's just really good. It records your screen, records your local audio, makes your cursor look good. And I think it costs…

Aaron Epstein

think you you have a challenge for everybody who's watching for something they can do today to get started right

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