<p>We all start off with these wild dreams as kids — dreams of who we want to become, what we want to create, and what we want to achieve….. and some of us keep having those dreams.</p> <p>But for most of us, something happens and we end up not taking the path of fulfilling our dreams. Something gets in the way and instead we end up taking a very traditional path: get a degree, get a job, then keep climbing the career ladder.</p> <p>The traditional path makes sense because of</p> <ul> <li>Culture — e.g. “my mom will kill me if I don’t go to college”</li> <li>Society — e.g. “You’re working on something and it’s not doing anything?”</li> <li>Security — You need money to pay the bills</li> </ul> <p>For some people, the traditional path works and they love it. But for others, they go down the traditional path and they’re left wishing they went down another path.</p> <p>Enter Farza Majeed, my guest today, and his company, Buildspace. Farza <strong>created Buildspace to give an alternate path to the dreamers. They are building the Hogwarts for builders and dreamers.</strong> In other words, Buildspace is a school for people that don’t want to just “get a job”.</p> <p>Buildspace is a place where you can figure out what you’re passionate about, create something you love working on, and then learn how to turn that creation into a financially sustainable path you can pursue full-time. The end goal? <em><strong>people working full-time on their creations sustainably</strong></em><strong> — that means teaching you to figure out how to make money, raise money, get government grants, whatever needed.</strong></p> <p>The basic way Buildspace works is that they have a collection of “Builds”, which is a sort of guided course / project within a specific domain, such as Web 3 or AI. For example, they have a build on how to use GPT-3 and build a simple website that uses GPT-3.</p> <p>Buildspace was started in 2019 and they have pivoted 10 times. Now they’ve become extremely prolific — &nbsp;over 125,000 <em>people have built something using Buildpsace, 1000s have attended IRL events, and some have started multi-million $ agencies, found co-founders, and even gotten funded for their own startups.</em></p> <p>Follow Farza on <a href=" https://twitter.com/FarzaTV" target="_blank"><strong>Twitter</strong></a><strong><br> </strong>Check out <a href="https://buildspace.so"><strong>Buildspace</strong></a></p> <p><em>______________________________________________________________________</em></p> <p>🎙️ This podcast was recorded in a studio provided by Founder's Inc in San Francisco. <a href="https://f.inc" target="_blank">F.inc</a> is a community of relentless founders building epic companies<br> ▶️ You can see the video recording of this episode on our <a href="https://youtube.com/@inventing.the.future" target="_blank">Youtube</a></p> <p>🙋🏻‍♂️ <strong>YOUR HOST</strong>: Julian Alvarez is the Co-founder &amp; CEO at <strong>Mindflow.</strong> Learn more about me through my growth journeys on Mindflow (<a href="https://apple.co/3BY7Nry">@infinitejulian</a>)<br> 🚀 <strong>OUR MISSION</strong>: Our mission is to introduce you to the ideas and entrepreneurs that will inspire and empower you to solve the world's biggest problems.<br> 🌐 <strong>OUR WEBSITE</strong>: <a href="https://inventingthefuture.ai/" target="_blank">inventingthefuture.ai</a></p> <p>🦜 FOLLOW US on socials for small doses of podcast clips, startup wisdom, tech entrepreneurship stories, and more</p> <p>▶️ <a href="https://tiktok.com/@inventing.the.future" target="_blank"><strong>TikTok</strong></a><br> 📷 &nbsp;<a href="https://instagram.com/inventing.the.future" target="_blank"><strong>Instagram</strong></a><br> 📧 &nbsp;<a href="https://bit.ly/itf-newsletter" target="_blank"><strong>Newsletter</strong></a></p> <p>📅 <strong>Connect With Julian: <br> </strong><a href="//linkedin.com/in/julianalvarez42" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a></p>