[Verse 1 — solo acoustic guitar, fingerpicked] I watched every podcaster I know Hit publish and then let the whole thing go The guest got a thank-you, maybe a text And everything useful just drifted to the left I asked the agencies, I asked the hosts I asked the ones who had the most to lose "Who's building the layer between the mic and the trust?" They all said the same thing — nobody does [Chorus — add stomping percussion] I kept waiting for somebody else To see what I could see I kept waiting for somebody smarter Somebody with more time than me I waited through a hundred episodes Then two hundred, then I lost the count I kept waiting for somebody else to build it Nobody did — so I figured it out [Verse 2] Six to eight weeks with the calendar cleared Building the thing I'd been sketching for years Not from a whiteboard, not from a hunch From seven hundred conversations and a thousand working lunches Four kids at home, a sixteen-year-old asking questions An eight-year-old who doesn't care about my product sessions A wife who's heard me say "almost done" eleven times this week And a four-year-old who just wants me to watch her eat [Chorus] I kept waiting for somebody else To see what I could see I kept waiting for somebody funded Somebody with a bigger team I waited through the tools that came and went The ones that promised everything and missed the point I kept waiting for somebody else to build it Nobody did — so I figured it out [Bridge — harmonica, slower] My father came to Saudi Arabia for a job My mother trimmed a door with a jigsaw because nobody else would I sold books from a car trunk at nineteen And registered a domain before I had a product Some people wait for permission Some people wait for funding Some people wait for the market to be ready I just ran out of patience [Final Chorus — full band, driving acoustic strum] I stopped waiting for somebody else I stopped looking for the sign I stopped hoping that the industry would fix itself In some convenient design Eight years of asking the same question Eight years of hearing the same pain Nobody built the system podcasters needed So I built it — and I'd do it all again [Outro — back to solo guitar, spoken] They ask me why I didn't wait for investors Or a co-founder, or a market signal, or validation I say: I had seven hundred data points What more validation do you need?
