Fayl Tales
Behind every startup success story is a trail of mistakes, pivots, broken plans and brilliant comebacks.
Fayl Tales is the podcast where entrepreneurs, founders, investors and early employees share the real side of building something new - the failures that shaped them, the lessons they learned the hard way, and the resilience it takes to keep going.
Hosted by Loveth, each episode dives into the raw, funny and honest moments most business stories leave out - so you can learn faster, fail smarter, and feel less alone on your own journey.
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Fayl Tales
too lazy to do It himself. so he built a company ~ Haobo Zhang
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Hey Crew!
Haobo Zhang is 20 years old. He has a full scholarship to study biomedicine at University of Melbourne, 30,000 users on his AI platform, and a very public goal to build a unicorn by 25. He's also on a leave of absence from that scholarship, which is basically just a polite way of saying he dropped out.
He's been building since he was 14, and not for the reasons you'd think. It started because he wanted money to buy video games. He wrote novels, sold them online, then hired someone else to write them because he didn't want to do it himself. At 15, he was running a YouTube creator agency while pretending to be an adult because he knew no one would take him seriously. His dad was signing the Shopify forms on his behalf.
Now he's building Polarbear, an AI study tool for students, with 1,300 daily active users and a raise coming. But the most interesting thing about Haobo isn't the product. It's his philosophy. He calls himself lazy. And he thinks that's exactly why he's been able to build so much.
We get into:
- Why being lazy might actually be the founder superpower nobody talks about
- How a random Antler hackathon accidentally created Polarbear
- Why he markets to students instead of parents and why it works every time
- Building a content machine without being a natural content creator
- The reality of being 20 and building, the rent anxiety, the sleepless nights, calling 20 parents a day just to cover expenses
- What he's had to sacrifice to get here
- The unicorn by 25 goal and whether he actually believes it
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