# A teammate can keep a founder from scrapping a strong video

Markdown copy of https://realalpha.app/s/a-teammate-can-keep-a-founder-from-scrapping-a-strong-video/ on Real Alpha, the best minutes from long interviews with the people building AI. Cite and link the page, not this copy.

- Speaker: [Farza Majeed](https://realalpha.app/builders/farza-majeed/) · Farza Majeed is founder of Hey Clicky and previously Buildspace. · Founded HeyClicky, a Mac AI buddy that sees your screen; previously founded Buildspace, an online builder school.
- Host: [Aaron Epstein](https://realalpha.app/people/aaron-epstein/) · General partner, Y Combinator · Co-founded Creative Market, a design marketplace later sold to Autodesk; hosts YC's Design Review.
- Show: Lightcone
- Episode: [This Is How You Should Actually Make Launch Videos](https://realalpha.app/v/v12aSIZIXUs/), Oct 23, 2026
- Moment: 13:45 to 16:16 of the episode (3 min), playing on https://realalpha.app/s/a-teammate-can-keep-a-founder-from-scrapping-a-strong-video/; the episode from there: https://realalpha.app/v/v12aSIZIXUs/?t=825

## Quote

> “this video did 3 million views on Twitter and people went crazy over it and it's so funny **I thought it was horrible**”
> — [Farza Majeed](https://realalpha.app/builders/farza-majeed/) at [14:35](https://realalpha.app/v/v12aSIZIXUs/?t=875) · Lightcone

## Takeaways

1. Farza rehearsed the script repeatedly before filming.
2. His collaborator overruled his instinct to scrap the video.
3. The video later reached 3 million views on Twitter.

## About this segment

Farza Majeed thought a carefully scripted video was bad and wanted to drop it, but his collaborator pushed to publish. It reached 3 million views, showing why a team can challenge a founder's judgment.

From “This Is How You Should Actually Make Launch Videos”, Oct 23, 2026. [Watch the full episode](https://realalpha.app/v/v12aSIZIXUs/)

## Transcript

Transcribed by machine (Whisper) from the episode’s audio, so a word may be off here and there.

[13:51](https://realalpha.app/v/v12aSIZIXUs/?t=831) like it before and i want to show you let's say i want to write again that's just me being myself which is like hey i want to show you you come across very natural here um was that easy for you to do no no first of all this whole video scripted every every line that i'm saying i wrote like three days before and i said it and i i'll say it in my head like over and over and over again in the shower uh going to work and i'm always like how should i say that line and by the time i'm in front of the camera i've already visualized it like 10 times it's so funny after this video we were finished it I told Vikrant the person uh who I make videos with and I'm like this is the worst video we've ever done it's not even worth editing it and he's like no bro be quiet shut up I'm gonna make it and then we're gonna post it and so again it's good to have the team

[14:34](https://realalpha.app/v/v12aSIZIXUs/?t=874) also be really like hey we made this like we're gonna put it out it doesn't matter how cringe we think it is like we'll let the audience decide this video did 3 million views on Twitter and people went crazy over it and it's so funny I thought it was horrible I just thought like this is so this is so bad so this is one of the situations where i was wrong yeah and i think founders i mean me especially think something we made is bad or i made is bad and then i don't want to put it out because it's going to make i don't like how it sounds or feels i'm constantly forcing myself to put it out it's not natural for me to click post um but uh sometimes it is sometimes it's not yeah and so this is one example where i was like so surprised uh that people even cared to begin with because i thought it was just a pretty simple thing it's interesting um i've

[15:16](https://realalpha.app/v/v12aSIZIXUs/?t=916) heard you talk about this almost like demo driven development where everything that you're working on you're almost working backwards from a demo that you want at the end of it and that's kind of the proof that the thing is ready to go it lets you test it out and then you get to the end of it and you're like let's just publish the demo the most important thing in my company that i tried to always and every company i've ever run is you know that feeling when you're working with someone often on a team or a co-founder and you're like check this out that you have to be so aware of that because that is the thing that you could probably talk about online that check this out is exactly like that raw check this out is exactly how you should be kind of presenting yourself on the internet in this case you know sometimes i go a little bit more fancy if i want to

[15:54](https://realalpha.app/v/v12aSIZIXUs/?t=954) but sometimes i'm also just a guy in a simple video in the yc office and then Sometimes, maybe once a quarter, we'll do a polished launch where it's like, this is something I'm really proud of. I want to make sure it's talked about properly. But generally, we're launching demos every single day almost.