Grok Bot's product lead on shipping v1 in one month
Roman Ugarte, formerly employee 15 at Cursor and now Grok Bot's product lead, explains how a small team went from first code to prototype in a month and launched three weeks later.
Elon Musk's SpaceXAI team built Grok Bot's first version in one month, and its product lead explains how roman ugarte was employee 15 at cursor and now leads product for grok bot. how they built it: 1. a handful of people, a separate part of the office, private slack channels 2. one month from first line of code to an internal prototype 3. 3 weeks from internal beta to public launch, cutting features the whole way 4. a couple hundred early users onboarded by hand over about two weeks what he tells new users to do first: 1. connect slack and email 2. ask grok bot for 5 things it can take off your plate 3. spin up a bot for each one that fits the parts worth watching: 06:30 - employees promote their bots to chief of staff 19:00 - bots using tools that have no API 28:00 - why every bot gets its own computer 52:00 - the always-on bot that filters everything 1:19:00 - his first-day setup tips save this and read the article below to set up grok bot like spacexai engineers ↓
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