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7 transcript-backed records
01 / evaluation
“A lot of startups have this problem and initially they just do things that don’t scale in the Paul Graham way, but then things start breaking more and more as you scale.”
02 / evaluation
“You can do that too when you’re small just to delight users, but it doesn’t scale.”
03 / evaluation
“If you’re just trying to take on Google by building another [inaudible 00:15:38] search engine and with some other differentiation, which could be privacy, or no ads, or something like that, it’s not enough. It’s very hard to make a real difference in just making a better [inaudible 00:15:55] search engine than Google, because they have basically nailed this game for like 20 years.”
04 / evaluation
“What is the weakness of Google is that any ad unit that’s less profitable than a link, or any ad unit that kind of disincentivizes the link click is not in their interest to go aggressive on, because it takes money away from something that’s higher margins.”
05 / evaluation
“LLM means large language model. That LLM takes the relevant paragraphs, looks at the query, and comes up with a well-formatted answer with appropriate footnotes to every sentence it says, because it’s been instructed to do so, it’s been instructed with that one particular instruction, given a bunch of links and paragraphs, write a concise answer for the user, with the appropriate citation.”
06 / evaluation
“He learned the mistakes that, if you rely on others a lot for your distribution, his first company, Zip2 where he tried to build something like a Google Maps, he ended up, as in, the company ended up making deals with putting their technology on other people’s sites and losing direct relationship with the users because that’s good for your business.”
07 / evaluation
“One common trait across every successful founder is they were relentless. So that’s why I really like this, an obsession about the user.”