Stop Planning. Start Building. (His Rule Will Challenge You) | Daniel Innovaté

About this episode

Daniel Innovaté discusses the new era of building products quickly and the implications of speed on creativity and innovation.

There’s a new kind of builder emerging. Not slower. Not more careful. Just… faster, sharper, and a little harder to categorize. In this episode, we sit down with Daniel Innovaté, product designer, creative entrepreneur, and one of the most naturally adaptive builders you’ll come across. Daniel doesn’t just talk about ideas. He turns them into real, working products, sometimes in minutes. We explore what it actually looks like to build in this new era: - Creating apps in 15 minutes instead of 6 months - Using AI as a collaborator, not a threat - Managing 10+ parallel projects without losing direction - Why being a generalist might be the real advantage now - And how speed is changing the way we think, build, and solve problems At one point, Daniel shares how he built a fully functional app for his dog… on a plane… before landing. It sounds trivial. It’s not. Because underneath that story is something bigger: We’re entering a moment where ideas don’t have to sit in notebooks anymore. They can come to life instantly. But speed comes with tradeoffs. We also get into: - The tension between creativity and AI - Why most people resist new tools (and what that really means) - The shift…

People in this episode

Host: Mark A. Cleveland

Guest: Daniel Innovaté

Topics covered

• building
• creativity
• AI collaboration
• product design
• entrepreneurship
• speed in innovation

Keywords

• product design
• entrepreneurship
• AI
• building apps
• generalist advantage
• community-driven systems

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AI

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