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Alex Mehr

Alex Mehr

Co-Founder of Zoosk

Oct 20, 2026

CurtisHOST
8:15
Talk about what separates a truly great business idea from one that will never succeed.
8:24
Yeah.
8:26
So In this day and age, it used to be, I used to actually myself, I've given talks on this topic that, and it's also saying that people say idea is 1% of the whole thing and 99% is execution.
8:43
You've probably heard that before.
8:47
That has changed significantly with AI, significantly.
8:54
Executing on ideas have become a lot easier.
8:59
not even like twice easier, not even 10 times, probably 100 times easier.

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CurtisHOST
20:08
So talk about what you have learned about creativity and innovation throughout your career and how do you handle it when a business idea doesn't work out as you expected it?
1:58
They had millions and millions of pills that they sent out.
2:02
But that's the same thing.
2:03
So think about Blitzkrieg.
2:05
So what is it? So it's a combination of a new strategy combined with lighter Panzer tanks, I believe, like lighter mobile tanks in a new tactical way, combined with methamphetamine pills, which gave them the unfair advantage.
2:27
So technology is not always like, oh, it's a new thing.
2:32
It's a combination of things that has not been tried before.
2:36
And I would argue even like, you know, the weapon systems, there are like a lot of things they did and they made also a lot of mistakes.

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15:50
Would you say, what would you like our real dead serious people to take away from the conversation today? That was a great one you gave the last time.
28:25
And that's an AI generated image.
28:27
That's an AI generated image, yeah.
28:29
So essentially said, okay, so the user is building this.
28:32
Now they wanted more high energy.
28:34
How do I make this website more high energy? And we have a ton of design guidelines inside.
28:39
So we're like, okay, if it is like something about yoga or peace or calmness, the color palette should be like this.
28:47
If it is like fitness and stuff, you have more high energy color.

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39:50
What are the current limitations of it? If there are any, and like, where do you see it going in the next year, the next three years, five years? What does that look like to you?
4:31
Well,
4:33
if you want me to guess, my guess is you need realtors.
4:37
And Bitcoin and homes are completely different things.
4:41
Bitcoin is fungible.
4:42
A home is a home.
4:44
It is where you live.
4:46
You plan to grow your family and have a life there.
7:44
Where is that happy median?
18:03
If someone we knew bought it, what skill set do we now need to start growing?
18:08
Yeah, it's a very interesting question.
18:11
I can give you a very specific example in my own company.
18:16
So we are an engineering company.
18:20
I had about 180 to 100 engineers, product developers, designers sitting on my floor in my first startup in San Francisco.
18:32
And we had a certain amount of output.
18:34
So I managed it.

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36:34
So how do we
28:31
And that's an AI generated image.
28:34
That's an AI-generated image, yeah.
28:36
So essentially said, okay, so the user is building this.
28:39
Now they wanted more high energy.
28:41
How do I make this website more high energy? And we have a ton of design guidelines inside.
28:46
So we're like, okay, if it is like something about yoga or peace or calmness, the color palette should be like this.
28:53
If it is like... fitness and stuff, you have more high energy color.

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39:50
What are the current limitations of it? If there are any, and like, where do you see it going in the next year, the next three years, five years? What does that look like to you?
33:07
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33:14
It's, it's postmodernism is...
33:16
That's the main issue, is like they think us as humans are very different and now somehow we are more advanced and like grew IQ points or something.
33:25
Not true.
33:26
We are the same biological systems, organisms we lived back then that we are now, and that has been the case through the recorded history, okay? So the human that lived during hu- ancient Egypt until now, we have changed very little as like actual human species.
33:46
So all those arguments are come from a place of arrogance.
33:50
That's kind of what I'm, what I'm saying.

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