Roy, Cluely’s founder,<\/a> saw what I was doing and was a fan. He reached out and was like, “Yo, would you be interested in joining Cluely?”<\/p>\n I flew out to film a YouTube video with him, and I had no intention of joining Cluely<\/a>. I just wanted to do the video and get to know him.<\/p>\n But he was very convincing. He showed me the grand vision. I was like, that’s pretty cool, and then we just went from there.<\/p>\n Got into Cluely with zero coding skills<\/p>\n I have zero technical skills. If you gave me a line of code, I wouldn’t even know what it meant.<\/p>\n I knew my edge is in distribution<\/a>. You can create your own luck in the social media world.<\/p>\n Related stories<\/p>\n Business Insider tells the innovative stories you want to know<\/p>\n Business Insider tells the innovative stories you want to know<\/p>\n There are very high expectations<\/a> for everybody here at Cluely. We have very bad sleep schedules. I’ll be up until about 4 or 5 a.m., but it’s expected that you’ll work from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to bed.<\/p>\n This is probably the only time in my life where I’ll be able to do something like this \u2014 sleep, eat, and breathe this office.<\/p>\n I do enjoy it for now, but I know it’s not sustainable for me forever.<\/p>\n Daniel Min used social media to create his own demand and landed a job at viral AI ‘cheating’ startup Cluely right after graduation.<\/p>\n Daniel Min\/Cluely<\/p>\n You’ll learn incredibly quickly at a startup<\/p>\n The nice thing about working at a startup is that it cuts through all the BS.<\/p>\n At a job where it’s like a 9-to-5, a big corporation, you can kind of get by. Like, I don’t really know what I’m doing, but I can do what I’m being told to do and figure it out somehow.<\/p>\n But at a startup, everyone is expected to know what they’re doing or at least learn very quickly what they need to do.<\/p>\n If you are thrown into that environment for three different summers throughout your school time, you will learn incredibly quickly.<\/p>\n It probably would have been beneficial to work at a big company to see how they run, but I’ve only ever worked in startups throughout college.<\/p>\n Grades aren’t important \u2014 hustling is<\/p>\n Grades weren’t important <\/a>at all. Starting a social media club at Penn was very important. I realized that everyone wanted to do banking \u2014there’s no space for people who want to do marketing.<\/p>\n I posted about the social media club I started on LinkedIn, and that was how I got my internship last summer.<\/p>\n The thing I wish I had done differently then was to go deeper into content. I wasn’t sure if this could turn into an actual career, so I was deep into consulting, crypto, and all these random industries I didn’t care about because I thought it would be safer.<\/p>\n If I had honed these skills since the beginning, it would have been an insane power law. <\/strong>I didn’t do that, and it’s fine because the best time to start was yesterday, and the next best time is today.<\/p>\n College students should focus on building a skill<\/a> that makes them irreplaceable. Proving themselves at a different startup while they’re in school is probably the best way to get into a startup postgrad.<\/p>\n Taking a risky bet is the least risky thing to do<\/p>\n You might think I took a really risky bet by joining Cluely. It’s literally one of the most de-risk things that you can do, especially when you create your own path. I had multiple job offers at my old company, and I still get job offers today.<\/p>\n I created my own demand because right now, distribution is very hot<\/a>. This is way safer than if I were to have gone into consulting and gotten laid off.<\/p>\n Marketing and social media have become so valuable. It’s a matter of who has the best brand perception.<\/p>\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/placeholder.png\")
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