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Perplexity founder Aravind Srinivas explains the “user is never wrong” philosophy of Larry Page Aravind recounts a story of Larry Page’s meeting with the CEO of Excite. Excite was the #2 search engine behind Yahoo at the time, and they were interested in buying Google. The two CEOs compared... show more
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An excellent product or service should typically have both options (advanced and simple). There are about 1.5 billion people in the world with an iPhone who they can barely customize their device because Apple has a different philosophy.
People are lazy, make it simple for them to use your product 👍
Google Search is terrible now. I miss the search engine diversity we had back in the day. Those companies were killed by the Google monopoly. It would have been amazing if they were allowed to innovate. Google is the worst. Now they force their lackluster AI on us when searching.
Wow. Brilliant
This interview was so good. Here is a key insight I could relate to: A lot of founders like to build and add low ROI features for power users (or themselves) - massively hurting adoption by new users because it makes it much harder for to understand the value prop.
Pablum. Should be ashamed.
He’s right. Products need to make us more lazy.
It is caked “idiot proofing the system”. Japanese did that wirpth their electronics. If you press multiple buttons on a VCR, it will eliminate all commands except the one that is logically the next step.
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