Cheeky Pint / episode intelligence
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25 published records
01 / evaluation
“com is a particularly interesting one because they aggregate all the hotels, but they are also aggregated by Google.”
02 / evaluation
“Yes. So you've talked a lot over the years about aggregation theory and really popularized this idea where pre-internet, often power would live with the supply, whereas on the internet, because of the different marginal cost dynamics and things like that, power will rest with the demand aggregators.”
03 / evaluation
“I see. So I mean famously, yeah, the restaurant economy and places like Taipei would have been really good, but it's gotten worse because people are eating in more with Uber Eats and stuff like that.”
04 / belief
“Not having access to that is definitely one of them. But the problem is that it's such a huge market now that I think there are fewer and fewer restaurants, in that a lot of these places actually just straight up close their storefronts are just ghost kitchens basically.”
05 / belief
“I think you're with Stripe, you're on the skepticism side. I think ads are amazing.”
06 / belief
“I mean, I think that that's a bridge that every tech company would be happy to cross if they came to it.”
07 / observation
“The problem is the merchants who will make that bundle valuable have no incentive to join the bundle because they could make more just monetizing users directly.”
08 / belief
“I think there's a lot of …There's a real stated versus revealed preference about a lot of this stuff.”
09 / belief
“I think some skepticism is triggered by people pitching a very far end state with a lot of agentic autonomy.”
10 / belief
“We're already seeing it and like in the early usage of the ChatGPT buying experience, I think that's one of those super cool features.”
11 / belief
“I agree there’s kind of a knee-jerk skepticism of ads. Look, I'm a YouTube Premium subscriber.”
12 / belief
“I think there's massive economic reasons to do so, which is all the revenue you're going to be foregoing in 2029 if you don't do it now, and then we'll happily get geopolitical insurance for free.”
13 / belief
“I think OpenAI might be a bigger threat to Facebook than Google, something worth considering, but Facebook is obviously clearly spending to meet it.”
14 / belief
“Not just a six billion humans typing away, but agents generating stuff sort of constantly. And in that world, I think crypto as an identifier of authenticity is going to be more and more important.”
15 / belief
“I think no one's going to really solve community around content, like a message board or comments or not.”
16 / prediction
“I think one of the brilliance of American business is… Actually, this is one of my theories about why the Europeans are so gung-ho about data privacy and regulation is because they so often interact with European companies.”
17 / evaluation
“And if you're just an app on a phone, you can't build a platform. And the problem is that I think being an advertising-based model is generally incompatible with being a platform.”
18 / evaluation
“I've made this disagreement before and they get mad about it, but they characterize themselves as being totally writer-friendly. And I think that was a mistake because it's impossible for them to be ultimately writer-friendly because the most writer-friendly setup is running an open source software on your own server.”
19 / preference
“It's still great. But there's a number of restaurants that I used to always take people to, like holes in the wall that I knew had super good beef noodles or something.”
20 / preference
“Just because it just shows up, I'm moving back to Wisconsin, so I'm buying stuff for the house and I get all those ski hangers and think those would be great.”
21 / commitment
“There was a thumb on the scale here. And I started talking about it then, and I did support the ban of TikTok or the forced divesture from China because it seems fairly insane to have a primary information source controlled by your chief geopolitical adversary.”
22 / evaluation
“I think burnout's not a function of how much work you're doing, it's doing work you don't enjoy.”
23 / evaluation
“What actually matters, and this is a key thing, people get hung up on relative numbers, what matters is absolute numbers.”
24 / evaluation
“You get exactly what you asked for. And I think the extent to how powerful this already works, they're just stuck on “50% of my ads work, I don't know which ones.”
25 / preference
“Yeah, I mean it's silly to try to crush it out. I'm very opposed to these AI detectors because they don't work.”