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Books, apps, and tools
other / uses
“I continue to be astounded by how much engineering has transformed in two years. It's like a completely different dropdown. We used to sit there in NID and write code, and now you're just talking to agents and reviewing code and shipping 100 PRs a day.”
service / likes
“I love Waymo. It's just like, once you see it, you're just like, This is insane.”
other / likes
“They don't have to raise money. They can just kind of go heads down and build, so I love so much about the story of Surge.”
app / uses
“Yeah, let's do it. I use Discover Weekly all the time.”
other / built
“The Superhost example is actually really interesting because I built the Superhost program.”
app / uses
“As an example, I use Claude and ChatGPT for coming up with title suggestions for these podcast episodes. And I give it examples of just examples of titles that have done well, and then it's 10 different examples, just bullet points.”
app / uses
“Yeah. For me when I use Claude for coming up with interview questions and just suggestions of... It's actually really good.”
app / likes
“Okay. By the way, I want to make it clear, I love Claude. I use Claude and ChatGPT equally, roughly.”
app / likes
“Speaking of apps, I was doing research on you in preparation for this and I didn't realize you built Quitter back in the day. I love Quitter.”
app / built
“Fun fact, I built an app once called Savorable that helped you savor the moment, it was called Savorable and it sent you a text every few hours, I don't know, maybe once a day with a little reminder of way to savor the moment.”
hardware / likes
“I love Sonos. I love the name. I have many Sonos products. How often does this happen where the client is just, "No, this is not the name.”
other / likes
“I love Ender's Game. I've read them all.”
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01 / uncertainty
“Steak dinner, champagne. I don't know what salespeople do when they close a deal.”
02 / uncertainty
“Elena Verna had this really great post. I don't know if you know her. She's head of growth at Lovable right now.”
03 / uncertainty
“I'm glad. And also it was going to be interesting once AI is so good, we're like, "I don't know who wrote that.”
04 / uncertainty
“I remember when Anthropic first launched, this was, I don't know, the first model when it launched years ago, three years ago, something like that.”
05 / uncertainty
“The latest number I saw was Anthropic was making, I don't know, $50 billion in ARR.”
06 / uncertainty
“I don't know anything about this, but you mentioned you're doing some kind of cycling event.”
07 / uncertainty
“I don't know if you know this, but your first visit to the podcast, your episode ended up being my second most popular episode.”
08 / uncertainty
“I don't know if we have the audience to do that, but that'd be really interesting.”
09 / uncertainty
“We talked about this earlier. I don't know how much more there's to add here. Basically again, it's not that this function is in big trouble necessarily.”
10 / uncertainty
“I don't know how many innings. I don't know if there's innings in cricket, but it's definitely baseball.”
11 / uncertainty
“I don't know if you have this in this deck, but a glimmer of hope that you pointed out is that enjoyment of work is actually still very high, that it's burnout, but also people still at the same levels last year actually, really enjoying their work.”
12 / uncertainty
“I think everyone knows about it. I don't know if everyone's read it. So highly encourage you to read it.”
13 / uncertainty
“I got to ask about maybe the most famous, I don't know, tagline of all time when a product was launched, "1,000 songs in your pocket.”
14 / uncertainty
“Just to support this kind of general theme you have of it's like we don't know what is going to happen, this is unprecedented, if you're to zoom out a few years ago, maybe three years ago, four years ago, the last profession you think would be automated is engineering and coding.”
15 / uncertainty
“I went to a standup comedy show of Pete Holmes, I don't know if you know him. And he made this joke that we want AI to clean the poop off the street and do all these hard things that nobody wants to do, but instead it's like, "Oh, let me help you write.”
16 / uncertainty
“I don't know about you, but I'm so excited to have a robot at home doing things.”
17 / uncertainty
“If you're saying it'll double, but it's already gone up. I don't know. I saw numbers like 6x and some like that.”
18 / uncertainty
“You tweeted that you're leaving with your brief explanation and got seven million views, 50, I don't know, 8,000 likes.”
19 / uncertainty
“What an incredible set of experiences and different types of places to work. I don't know if they could be more different, all these places.”
20 / uncertainty
“I think about vital eggs as a great example of this. It was in the news, I don't know, on Twitter, TikTok a while ago.”
21 / uncertainty
“I don't know if you saw this, but everyone's complaining of how they've gotten worse and they have all the highest level of toxins and then they're owned by BlackRock now, it turns out.”
22 / uncertainty
“I think there's this big, I don't know, milestone of when does token spend exceed someone's salary.”
23 / uncertainty
“The TPPN guys have a really good way of describing this exact concept, which is they had like, I don't know, 8,000 listeners and a conversation.”
24 / uncertainty
“I have a friend who works at a big tech company and you just said all the design team, they're required to ship like, I don't know, 10 PRs a month or something like that or a quarter, which is such a new world.”
25 / uncertainty
“One is when Claude thinks there's all these I don't know if you call them verbs.”
26 / uncertainty
“I think the other, I don't know, the good, again, just to remind people, it sucks to have to change.”
27 / uncertainty
“You would think though, I don't know if it was Hemmingway of just like, "If I had more time, I would've made it shorter.”
28 / uncertainty
“Along these lines, actually, you have this, I don't know if you call it a hot take that AI content is going to surpass human content and that's just the future.”
29 / uncertainty
“We interviewed, this is me and Terrence Rohan. I don't know if you know him, VC.”
30 / uncertainty
“Interestingly on that line, there's a few companies that are launching, Simile is one, that is simulating humans. I don't know if you heard about this company.”
31 / uncertainty
“" Just like, "They're so far ahead." And it shows the power of focus and just, I guess, I don't know, all the things you all did.”
32 / uncertainty
“I don't know if you saw our episode together, but we talked a bit about it, but it's coming up soon.”
33 / uncertainty
“I don't know, probably your metaphor of the assistant, multiple assistants using the same computer, maybe not as helpful, but in theory it's like, "Okay, if they could just be in the same place and use the same computer and share, that's fine.”
34 / uncertainty
“Something that it does for me is when I have a meeting somewhere, I don't know how it knows this, but it's like, "You should leave now.”
35 / uncertainty
“Because someday, whether it's at a seven years old or 100 years old or 60 years old, I don't know, maybe I won't be able to do this every single week.”
36 / uncertainty
“Another, I don't know, ritual and way of running teams that I heard about you, is you encourage team members roasting each other, which on the surface doesn't sound like a wonderful environment, but on the other hand, I hear constantly that the teams that you've built are just the happiest, the highest performing teams.”
37 / uncertainty
“Coming back to cowork, is there, I don't know, mind-blowing use case, something just like, wow, that's so cool that cowork can do that.”
38 / uncertainty
“Interestingly, I saw Julie Zhuo, famed design leader, was reading The Power Broker recently. I don't know what's going on over here.”
39 / uncertainty
“There's a couple management, I don't know, rituals or takes you have that I've heard from folks that you work with, that I want to touch on.”
40 / uncertainty
“I don't know how you did this, but it feels like you have this fire hose of information coming at you.”
41 / uncertainty
“About six months ago, I don't know if people even remember this, you actually left Anthropic.”
42 / uncertainty
“I had Marc Andreessen on recently, and I don't know if you've heard his whole thing on what he consumes, he talks about he has a very barbell strategy to media.”
43 / uncertainty
“I think about just people that don't have parents that are there and always seek someone as their partner that's more, I don't know, that gives them that later.”
44 / uncertainty
“I'm picturing an F sideways or an E where there's three, two or three, I don't know, downward parts.”
45 / uncertainty
“Say it's not like Meta, but just like, I don't know, a thousand person company, 500 people.”
46 / uncertainty
“I don't know if I told you I was going to ask you these questions, but I'm going to go for it.”
47 / uncertainty
“I don't know if you saw this on Twitter. Someone described small talk as the TCP/IP act handshake.”
48 / uncertainty
“Yeah. And I think another part of this metaphor, I don't know if you think of it this way.”
49 / uncertainty
“Jason, I don't know if you know this, but you're the perfect podcast guest because you have such deep experience in the space that you just have answers to everything I ask.”
50 / uncertainty
“I don't know if you've played with Claude much, but I actually find Claude is better at writing and words and language.”
51 / uncertainty
“I don't know if you saw this tweet where I tagged you the other day, or maybe it was today.”
52 / uncertainty
“I don't know what this is. I don't know what I'm doing with it. So I could see how this loop goes faster and faster by giving it away.”
53 / uncertainty
“I know this isn't what you work on, but there's a lot of opinions, a lot of, I don't know, timelines.”
54 / uncertainty
“Built, you said, in 28 days and I don't know, 10 days, 18 days just to get the core of it working.”
55 / uncertainty
“I always love meeting people working on AI because it always feels like this very, I don't know, sterile, scary, mysterious thing.”
56 / uncertainty
“Essentially, it's like a virtual machine with, I don't know, a browser or a spreadsheet or something in it with like, I don't know, surge.”
57 / uncertainty
“Are there any functions you think are especially successful at this? Not to play any favorites, but I don't know.”
58 / uncertainty
“What this makes me think about is there's this famous Harvard Business Review piece. I don't know.”
59 / uncertainty
“Most people started hearing and caring about AI, as what it's called today, just like, I don't know, a few years ago when ChatGPT came out.”
60 / uncertainty
“" You have some even more concrete pieces of advice here of just what that looks like. You have a huge, I don't know, philosophy of just huge leverage per person.”
61 / uncertainty
“Oh, what a, that survey man, what a, and not only just that survey being the slick, I'm imagining that XKCD comic with the open source little, I don't know, block holding up the entire world, like this one little piece of code.”
62 / uncertainty
“I see your face all the time in my LinkedIn feed. I don't know if you know this is a thing.”
63 / uncertainty
“I don't know, is there anything surprising about, "Oh wow, this model's actually really good at this and this is really bad at that.”
64 / uncertainty
“Just like, most of what limits people it feels like now is just, I don't know what idea I have.”
65 / uncertainty
“I don't know, imagining some kind of a storyboard and then it's figure out the model and level of model and prompt for that model to achieve each of these steps as best as possible.”
66 / uncertainty
“Let's talk about the next phase and maybe, I don't know, tell us kind of the ARR at that point through 100 million.”
67 / uncertainty
“I wonder what that metaphor is for figure skating. I don't know. Anyway, Melanie, this was incredible.”
68 / uncertainty
“I don't know how that works. Yeah, I don't know how you did that, but it worked.”
69 / uncertainty
“Just was the mood really, I don't know, sad internally? Two years, that's a long time not to ship anything.”
70 / uncertainty
“I don't know if you want to name names of products or anything like that, but it's something that you find helpful or useful.”
71 / uncertainty
“Something that Hamel and Shreya shared is that people need just, I don't know, five or seven evals for the most important elements of their product.”
72 / uncertainty
“There's the common ones, Copilot, Cursor. I don't know. Is there anything that stands out that you want to share, just like, "Hey, you should check this tool out.”
73 / uncertainty
“I don't know a single product team that doesn't use and love Figma, which is extremely rare.”
74 / uncertainty
“Not to put you on the spot, but is there someone that comes to mind when you think of, this person has great taste, that maybe isn't an obvious, like a Steve Jobs, maybe another leader? I don't know.”
75 / uncertainty
“I don't know if anyone's ever mentioned, it was one of the most influential books for me too.”
76 / uncertainty
“Where can folks find you online if they want to maybe reach out, learn more about what you're, I don't know, maybe join Scale.”
77 / uncertainty
“What's crazy about that book, you look at all the companies they talk about, I haven't read in a while, but just the whole book is about companies that last, I believe, or maybe that's the other book, I don't know.”
78 / uncertainty
“You've worked at a bunch of different sizes of companies from startup to Grammarly, I don't know, you call it a big company, bigger company.”
79 / uncertainty
“I don't know, classically, designers aren't the biggest fans of experiments and data and making decisions based on data.”
80 / uncertainty
“Such a good point, because I don't know if I have competitors in this exact space, but basically they would show up instead and then I lose all that traffic.”
81 / uncertainty
“Yeah, I think about I was at Airbnb for a long time and just thinking of Brian, who I don't know even know if he had a job before Airbnb now.”
82 / uncertainty
“I don't know if forcing's the right word, but encouraging people to play with the latest stuff and giving them a chance to take days off or block out calendars, cancel meetings, just stay on top of this stuff to play as you talked about it.”
83 / uncertainty
“I don't know how much time you'll have for the hundreds of thousands of people coming your way, but I appreciate the offer.”
84 / uncertainty
“Don't watch it before you go to bed, I don't know how many gruesome scenes you've seen already.”
85 / uncertainty
“I don't know if you've seen this, but I've been doing research on which companies produce the best product leaders.”
86 / uncertainty
“If you've seen the revenue recently, they're making, I don't know, approaching 10 billion a year or some crazy amount of money.”
87 / uncertainty
“What you're saying here is this is the opportunity for startups to disrupt an incumbent. This is the opportunity for someone to disrupt Salesforce, I don't know, ServiceNow, all these guys that have been around for a long time.”
88 / uncertainty
“Even though it's not, I don't know, Google or Facebook or whatever, it's still incredibly valuable for this specific thing that I do.”
89 / uncertainty
“I don't know where it is today, but it was the most influential music review site.”
90 / uncertainty
“I don't know, is there a philosophy book you're like, "Here's the one to read if you're getting into this.”
91 / uncertainty
“Wow. This is such a good example of, I don't know if you think of it this way, but when someone offers you a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask which seat.”
92 / uncertainty
“There was a recent study actually, I don't know if you saw, where they showed engineers were less productive with AI because it was just putting them in different directions.”
93 / uncertainty
“I have a two-year-old and it feels like there's a new milestone of, there's like when to give them a phone, when to give them, I don't know, Snapchat, whatever kids use these days and then it's like when to give them their first ChatGPT account.”
94 / uncertainty
“There's a lot of stuff here that's scary and I don't know how to think about it exactly.”
95 / uncertainty
“Along these lines, Dario, your CO recently talked about how AI is going to take a huge part of, I don't know, half of white-collar jobs, that unemployment might go up to something like 20%.”
96 / uncertainty
“In terms of the offers do you think, is this a real number that you're seeing this $100 million signing bonus, is that a real thing? I don't know if you've actually seen that.”
97 / uncertainty
“Most people probably don't actually feel this yet or see this happening and so there's always this, I guess, I don't know, maybe, but I don't know it's hard to believe, my job seems fine.”
98 / uncertainty
“I don't know if you want people to know this, but I was browsing through your Medium posts and you have a post called Five Tips to Poop like a Champion.”
99 / uncertainty
“Today there's over 1,000, I don't know what the latest number is, but I know it's over 1,000.”
100 / uncertainty
“Maybe a last nugget or something you want to, I don't know, just double down on to leave folks with before we wrap up.”
101 / uncertainty
“Anything more you can add here for helping people start to think about ways to differentiate beyond the obvious price and speed. And I don't know, a couple more.”
102 / uncertainty
“Just again, so kind of a tip here is if half of your team or, I don't know, some percent of your team hates it, some percent of your team loves it, that's a good sign.”
103 / uncertainty
“I'm thinking about how to use that, I don't know, mode for other use cases, like the ghost version of something to motivate you essentially.”
104 / uncertainty
“I don't know if you saw his previous thing that he did, I forget what it's called.”
105 / uncertainty
“I don't know, maybe you could keep it anonymous just to make this a little reel of the kind of mental model you might want to build around someone.”
106 / uncertainty
“You guys launched MCP, which is just, I don't know, the fastest growing standard of any time in history that everyone's adopting Claude powered and unlocked centrally the fastest growing companies in the world, Cursor, Lovable, and Bolt, and all these guys.”
107 / uncertainty
“I'm dogfooding like crazy." But a lot of people work at Oracle and Snowflake and I don't know, Fivetran, all these companies where it's much less, non-consumer product essentially where it's more difficult to dogfood.”
108 / uncertainty
“I want to talk about how you operationalize this in the culture of it at Uber, but just as a CPO, I don't know of many that go draw people off hundreds of times deliver food to people's houses hundreds of times.”
109 / uncertainty
“Sort of along those lines, there's a question I got from, I don't know if he's the CTO of Uber, CTO of part of Uber, Praveen who I believe you work with at Uber.”
110 / uncertainty
“We're not going to be obsessed with perfect quality of our, I don't know, websites and emails.”
111 / uncertainty
“I don't know if he'd called himself the product manager 'cause I don't think he loved product managers.”
112 / uncertainty
“What are these results telling you?" I'm like, I don't know. She's like, this tells me you should start your own company and work on your own.”