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01 / belief
“You just hit on the first one. This is the first one that I always think about because this is where I learned about this cycle very early in my career.”
02 / belief
“My prediction of the new distribution platform will be ChatGPT, in some ways that people probably already think it's happening in some ways that it won't, but the thing that is less important or that is more important than whether I have predicted the exact winner correctly, the thing that's more important is to understand the cycle and evaluate how to determine where you want to place your bets and how to place those bets, which I know we'll talk about.”
03 / belief
“On that note, which I think os a very good summary of what you're trying to do in a startup and distribution, is that we're right now living in this environment where that game of startups getting distribution faster than the incumbent has gotten way harder in a lot of ways, and in some small cases has gotten a little bit easier.”
04 / belief
“I think that's also what all the major media publishers are really contending with right now.”
05 / belief
“All of the ingredients for new distribution platform are essentially happening. My prediction, the new distribution platform will be ChatGPT.”
06 / belief
“Other than that, I would say, once they launch these platforms, you can't do much else, so you really know what the value exchange is and what they're going to expose for you, but also just be prepared to turn your strategy on a dime and go all in.”
07 / belief
“One is that, if you're a CEO listening to this, I would say that most CEOs or most executives are incredibly disconnected from the actual AI adoption taking place inside their companies.”
08 / belief
“Lesson seven is use cases, not personas. So the trope I think is always to talk to your customers, know your customers, and it just puts a lot of emphasis on understanding the person or category of person.”
09 / belief
“I got exposed to so many things I probably wouldn't have been exposed to otherwise. But one of the things that I learned in that, reflecting on that experience, is that the most miserable couples in the wedding planning process were the ones that were trying to solve for everybody, their fiance, both sets of parents, the friends, that annoying Uncle Eddie that you might have.”
10 / belief
“I think a lot of folks have really come to this realization through some of these hard times where a lot of pressure gets put on prioritization and budget cuts and stuff.”
11 / belief
“I think there will be an artifact on this soon, if there isn't live today, but we can get one live.”
12 / belief
“I think so. Yeah. I'm pretty sure. Or they do boxer. They also have the shorts with the liner in them.”
13 / belief
“' Here's what I've personally experienced, and I've talked to a lot of founders about this as well, where I think historically I've gotten really caught in this trap where at any moment in Reforge, it's like, "Ah, if I just solve this one thing that's X problem, everything's going to get easier.”
14 / belief
“Yeah, I learned a ton even from my brief time there, but yeah, that company has executed so well over a long period of time. It's just like, yeah, so many lessons there that I took away and I'm sure exist that I don't have knowledge of now because I haven't been there in some time.”
15 / belief
“At certain moments in my career, I had what I think a lot of people would call mastermind groups where I would get people at a similar stage of company as me together, we would meet biweekly or monthly and all those types of things.”
16 / belief
“Especially the early seasons I think capture the pain of creating something new really well.”