Episode 849 | Legal Threats, AI as Platform Risk, Building Confidence, and More Listener Questions (Rob Solo)

About this episode

Ever gotten a vague cease and desist from a competitor and wondered if you actually did something wrong? This week I tackle four listener questions: how seriously to take competitor terms of service threats, whether AI is really a platform risk (or just a feature risk), how to build confidence and get past the fear of reaching out to prospects, and when a non-founder employee should walk away from a company that's missing founder activation energy. Want to get your question answered? Submit your question for an upcoming episode. Episode Sponsor: You've found traction and product-market fit. But do you have a repeatable way to find your next 100 or 1,000 customers? If you hire a typical growth agency, you'll get a retainer and a calendar. Designli does growth engineering: they build the system that finds the channels that pay you back. Every campaign is a hypothesis with a number on it, and a point where they stop. Beat your CAC ceiling and the channel gets more budget. Miss it and they shut it off that week and move the money. A GTM engineer works inside your business half- or full-time, not split across ten accounts. You pay for their time and nothing else, no percent