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Brian Balfour

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These companies that have basically built on top of this platform, the other thing is by the time they started closing all those things down, all those competitors that we talked about, they were so far ahead at that point because they had built off the back of all these developers coming, adding use cases, bringing more users onto the platform, identifying that moat.

“These companies that have basically built on top of this platform, the other thing is by the time they started closing all those things down, all those competitors that we talked about, they were so far ahead at that point because they had built off the back of all these developers coming, adding use cases, bringing more users onto the platform, identifying that moat.”
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Brian Balfour
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Lenny's Podcast

02 / evaluation

These models by themselves, if you compare them side by side, they generate the same result, and so the actual difference-maker is which one has more of your context, because it's the context plus the model that produces the best output, and then that starts to accrue to this loop around memory.

“These models by themselves, if you compare them side by side, they generate the same result, and so the actual difference-maker is which one has more of your context, because it's the context plus the model that produces the best output, and then that starts to accrue to this loop around memory.”
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Brian Balfour
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

03 / evaluation

We saw that in the early Twitter days with things like Vine and Periscope, shutting those things down unceremoniously, or they need to find ways to monetize at a deeper and deeper level because all these companies, they have to grow.

“We saw that in the early Twitter days with things like Vine and Periscope, shutting those things down unceremoniously, or they need to find ways to monetize at a deeper and deeper level because all these companies, they have to grow.”
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Brian Balfour
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

04 / evaluation

Because all of these dynamics, in all the history, they either end up in monopolies or duopolies, and so the stakes are really large and so the competition is fierce.

“Because all of these dynamics, in all the history, they either end up in monopolies or duopolies, and so the stakes are really large and so the competition is fierce.”
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Brian Balfour
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

05 / evaluation

In the blog post that I wrote about this, I actually then played my own devil's advocate and said, "Okay, here are some reasons why it might not be ChatGPT," but I think we're in that part of the cycle.

“In the blog post that I wrote about this, I actually then played my own devil's advocate and said, "Okay, here are some reasons why it might not be ChatGPT," but I think we're in that part of the cycle.”
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Brian Balfour
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

06 / evaluation

That's probably just based on what real estate and where people live in the stack would own. And then, I think right behind that, I would probably put Google because of owning the context of things like email and the distribution points of search and Chrome and Android and those types of pieces.

“That's probably just based on what real estate and where people live in the stack would own. And then, I think right behind that, I would probably put Google because of owning the context of things like email and the distribution points of search and Chrome and Android and those types of pieces.”
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Brian Balfour
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

07 / evaluation

Especially as a company grows, there's all sorts of processes to put somebody up for a promotion and all that kind of stuff, and the way a lot of those processes are designed is the individual that's going up for promotion tries to tell a story about what they have accomplished and then the manager's going to advocate for them. And I think in that process, there's just too many opportunities to either twist what actually happened or there's all sorts of biases that end up involving.

“Especially as a company grows, there's all sorts of processes to put somebody up for a promotion and all that kind of stuff, and the way a lot of those processes are designed is the individual that's going up for promotion tries to tell a story about what they have accomplished and then the manager's going to advocate for them. And I think in that process, there's just too many opportunities to either twist what actually happened or there's all sorts of biases that end up involving.”
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Brian Balfour
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

08 / evaluation

Whereas I think in a lot of planning processes, you get those things out really fast, and then 80% of the process is churning on the last little bits that ultimately don't matter in the end.

“Whereas I think in a lot of planning processes, you get those things out really fast, and then 80% of the process is churning on the last little bits that ultimately don't matter in the end.”
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Brian Balfour
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

09 / evaluation

So I think a story from very early Reforge days. So when we started Reforge the norm in the education space online, that thing that everybody was talking about at the time was essentially these short form, self-serve, low-priced, available for everybody courses.

“So I think a story from very early Reforge days. So when we started Reforge the norm in the education space online, that thing that everybody was talking about at the time was essentially these short form, self-serve, low-priced, available for everybody courses.”
Speaker
Brian Balfour
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast
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