How To Get AI Startup Ideas

TL;DR

Founders should generate AI startup ideas by either aggressively introspecting on their own unique expertise (from prior jobs, internships, or research at the bleeding edge) or aggressively going outside into unfamiliar industries (via family connections, undercover jobs, shadowing, or searching Indeed for remote knowledge-work roles).

Key insights

• Most bad startup ideas are lazy hackathon-style concepts that are easy to build first version; the best ideas are at least somewhat hard to ship initially.
• Founders often fail to recognize their own expertise and need to have it pulled out of them during office hours.
• Internships at bleeding-edge companies are a proven path – a large percentage of YC’s billion-dollar companies trace back to an internship one founder had.