Clearly AI
A security-focused software startup founded by a former AWS security engineer.
- 1Hit a problem at AWSEmily was a security engineer there
- 2Would have paid to fix itHer own willingness to pay
- 3Found no vendorNo one offered a solution
- 4Started Clearly AIPull signal: solving your own problem
From Rob Snyder, The Power of Pull
What was said about Clearly AI
Clearly AI began with a founder solving a problem she would have paid for. Founder Emily, a security engineer at AWS, hit a problem she would have paid to solve and found no vendor that offered a solution. The example is used to show that solving your own problem can be a real pull signal.
Rob Snyder, author of The Power of Pull, cites it in a guide to finding product-market fit. The signal was her own willingness to pay combined with a market that had no vendor for it.
An 86-minute guide to finding PMF | Rob Snyder (Author, The Power of Pull)
Founder Emily, a security engineer at AWS, hit a problem she would have paid to solve and found no vendor. That is the example of solving your own problem working as a real pull signal.
Clearly AI began with a founder solving a problem she would have paid for. Founder Emily, a security engineer at AWS, hit a problem she would have paid to solve and found no vendor that offered a solution. The example is used to show that solving your own problem can be a real pull signal.
Rob Snyder, author of The Power of Pull, cites it in a guide to finding product-market fit. The signal was her own willingness to pay combined with a market that had no vendor for it.
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