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Builder Talk - building a product 10x better than Duolingo (Philipp Hadjimina, Founder @Quazel, YC W23 )
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Builder Talk - building a product 10x better than Duolingo (Philipp Hadjimina, Founder @Quazel, YC W23 )

Philipp is the CEO & founder at Quazel, an AI-enhanced language learning app that helps users talk their way to fluency.

Philipp’ life was not short of language education. Born in Switzerland, he picked up French, English, and German. When learning his forth language, Greek, he built a tool that helped himself communicate with his tutor during zoom calls.

Little did he know that this tool that he tinkered with would eventually turn into a startup backed by Y-Combinator.

My sister and I tried Quazel’s MVP to practice French. It is what it claims to be. It was the only product that got us to start speaking our targeted language right way.


01:41:How did Philipp wind up building a product in language learning space?

07:57:Hacker News Launch Ups and Downs

11:44:Experience going through Y Combinator

13:42:Creative ways to rally co-founders

16:03:Quazel’s current goals and priorities

19:48:Philipp’s thought behind achieving Quazel’s product market fit

25:29: Philipp’s views on taking and hedging risks


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If you would like to know more about Philipp as an awesome human being, visit:

Philipp's Personal Site


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