Leadership Transition: Yousif Astarabadi Takes Over as CEO

@channel I am stepping aside and Yousif Astarabadi - my co-founder and old CTO - is taking over as CEO. My strategy - using multiple AI agents to map out our codebase in detail – was a long shot, and it failed. In the end, it made more sense for me to rewrite the app from scratch rather than try to modify a complex codebase I didn't fully understand. And we just didn't have the time or runway for that. We tried things my way, and it didn't work. Yousif knows the codebase better than anyone. Now he’s stepping in to take over. Before I go, I want to express my deepest gratitude for your enthusiasm, patience and support along the way. It's been an honor! Yousif, we salute you, sir!

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Joe Poynton
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Thank you for being so open and accessible. Whenever I wanted to discuss anything to do with TalkTastic, you were always there to personally reach out and have a conversation. I wish you all the best with whatever you have on the horizon.
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Matt Mireles
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Thank you, Joe. I really appreciate it.
M Nash
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Matt Mireles it takes a big man to look at his decisions and own them up, bravo I saw the decision to use AI coding and I knew it was too early since the tech just isn’t there. I thought about making that comment but I’m not sure it would’ve made a difference, once you decide, you have to see it through Good luck with the future!
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Matt Mireles
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Thx Nash.
Stephane Gringer
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Wasn’t a failure, Matt. You got PMF and some great customer feedback. 💪 FWIW-My colleague wrote a short synopsis of his success refactoring his codebase using ai.
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Tan
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Matt Mireles thank you for taking such a bold risk in exploring new frontiers of product development. Your leadership has not only shown us what's possible, but created an incredible community around this product regardless of how it worked out!
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Yousif Astarabadi
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Thanks Matt Mireles for having the vision to create TalkTastic and bringing it to life with users that love it!
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Messina
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Cheers Matt Mireles — excited about what you created so far and doubly excited about what's next for you! 🥂
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Matt Mireles
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Thanks Stephane Gringer Messina Tan Yousif Astarabadi. I all the love everybody - means a lot to me!
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Shehbaz
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Looking forward to what you’ll create next Matt Mireles, best of luck! Thank you for being so incredibly accessible and actually listening to and acting upon feedback, so refreshing. Yousif Astarabadi congratulations on the…promotion? I will DM you with some of thoughts and frustrations…I’ll try not to be your worst user! 😅
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Yousif Astarabadi
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Shehbaz excited to hear your feedback!!
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Ronny Liverød
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Thanks for putting inn all your effort and making a fantastic product, very bold step with the AI strategy and in readable cool to follow even though it didn’t work out as hoped. Wish you all the best Matt ❤️
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