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33,966 просмотров • 20 дней назад

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Evan Spiegel on the lesson that killed his first startup and led to Snapchat: "We focused on building the perfect product for way too long before we got feedback. We worked for like eighteen months to build this perfect full-featured product, which was in direct contravention to how I was always taught to build things. Build a prototype, build an MVP, get it in front of people, learn as quickly as possible. But we had spent all this time building this perfect piece of software and we hadn't thought enough about distribution. While we built this great piece of software, our competitor at the time, Naviance, had secured distribution through all the different college counselors. What piece of software are you going to choose to help your kid get into college? The one recommended by the college counselors or the one from two kids at Stanford? I think it's a pretty easy choice. So we saw very early that we had no distribution advantage. Even if we loved our software, people weren't going to use it because we didn't have a scalable way to get it in people's hands. Around that time when we saw the emergence of the App Store on iPhone, it was very clear that was a distribution channel we could really use and benefit from. But we also needed to build things we could build quickly, things we really were going to use together with our friends so we could be the first early customers. Ultimately Peekaboo and Snapchat represented that." This is exactly the asymmetry Peter Thiel describes in Zero to One: superior distribution by itself can create a monopoly, even with no product differentiation. The converse is not true. Thiel puts an even finer point on it: most businesses get zero distribution channels to work. Poor sales rather than bad product is the most common cause of failure. If you can get just one distribution channel to work, you have a great business. Estée Lauder said: it's not enough to have the most wonderful product in the world. You must be able to sell it. Many founders over-index on product perfection and under-invest in distribution. The world is full of great products nobody knows about, and mediocre products with massive distribution that dominate markets. Evan Spiegel lived it. He built the better product, watched it lose, and then built something he could actually distribute.
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Evan Spiegel on the lesson that killed his first startup and led to Snapchat: "We focused on building the perfect product for way too long before we got feedback. We worked for like eighteen months to build this perfect full-featured product, which was in direct contravention to how I was always taught to build things. Build a prototype, build an MVP, get it in front of people, learn as quickly as possible. But we had spent all this time building this perfect piece of software and we hadn't thought enough about distribution. While we built this great piece of software, our competitor at the time, Naviance, had secured distribution through all the different college counselors. What piece of software are you going to choose to help your kid get into college? The one recommended by the college counselors or the one from two kids at Stanford? I think it's a pretty easy choice. So we saw very early that we had no distribution advantage. Even if we loved our software, people weren't going to use it because we didn't have a scalable way to get it in people's hands. Around that time when we saw the emergence of the App Store on iPhone, it was very clear that was a distribution channel we could really use and benefit from. But we also needed to build things we could build quickly, things we really were going to use together with our friends so we could be the first early customers. Ultimately Peekaboo and Snapchat represented that." This is exactly the asymmetry Peter Thiel describes in Zero to One: superior distribution by itself can create a monopoly, even with no product differentiation. The converse is not true. Thiel puts an even finer point on it: most businesses get zero distribution channels to work. Poor sales rather than bad product is the most common cause of failure. If you can get just one distribution channel to work, you have a great business. Estée Lauder said: it's not enough to have the most wonderful product in the world. You must be able to sell it. Many founders over-index on product perfection and under-invest in distribution. The world is full of great products nobody knows about, and mediocre products with massive distribution that dominate markets. Evan Spiegel lived it. He built the better product, watched it lose, and then built something he could actually distribute.

David Senra

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“An AI model that exists without a kind of explicit direction from a human, it's not doing something because of a human interaction. It's actually just existing almost in its own right.” Full interview with Jake Brukhman and gensyn CEO Ben Fielding dropping next week
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“An AI model that exists without a kind of explicit direction from a human, it's not doing something because of a human interaction. It's actually just existing almost in its own right.” Full interview with Jake Brukhman and gensyn CEO Ben Fielding dropping next week

CoinFund

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Elon Musk: "I'm not actually a fan of disruption for its own sake. If there's a need for something to be disrupted and it's important to the future of the world, then sure, then we should disrupt it."
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Elon Musk: "I'm not actually a fan of disruption for its own sake. If there's a need for something to be disrupted and it's important to the future of the world, then sure, then we should disrupt it."

Thomas Sowell Quotes

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THE AMERICAN REVIVAL "When our nation was born in 1776, we were a nation of underdogs. Our Founding Fathers stood up to the most powerful empire in the world, declared their independence, and then somehow turned assertion into reality. In order to make America great again, we have to know the story of what made America great the first time around. That's the story of our nation, that's the story of our history - and it's a story we've forgotten. If you think about who were the most intellectually groundbreaking thinkers of the 18th century, they actually weren't our Founding Fathers. Most of them were actually on the other side of the Atlantic, in Europe. But the European society into which they were born was different from ours in a big way. It was a culture that valued expertise over curiosity. But our Founding Fathers? They were different. They didn't believe in those boundaries. They didn't even believe in acquiescence to expertise. It was a culture that valued education, that valued autodidacts - people who taught themselves - exploration, a fundamental curiosity about how the world works. And an unyielding confidence that, even if you weren't an expert in something, you could still figure it out with the right combination of self-education & curiosity. So what's the message for us? Your generation - I will say, our generations - need to revive that special combination of curiosity & self-confidence. That special sauce that allowed America to succeed as an insurgent was that unmitigated curiosity & the totally unjustified confidence of our Founding Fathers. We should expect more of one another as citizens. We should expect more of ourselves. We should expect more of our leaders. These are the stories of American history that we deserve to revive, our children - our grandchildren - deserve to hear. That's the story of American Exceptionalism." - Vivek Ramaswamy
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THE AMERICAN REVIVAL "When our nation was born in 1776, we were a nation of underdogs. Our Founding Fathers stood up to the most powerful empire in the world, declared their independence, and then somehow turned assertion into reality. In order to make America great again, we have to know the story of what made America great the first time around. That's the story of our nation, that's the story of our history - and it's a story we've forgotten. If you think about who were the most intellectually groundbreaking thinkers of the 18th century, they actually weren't our Founding Fathers. Most of them were actually on the other side of the Atlantic, in Europe. But the European society into which they were born was different from ours in a big way. It was a culture that valued expertise over curiosity. But our Founding Fathers? They were different. They didn't believe in those boundaries. They didn't even believe in acquiescence to expertise. It was a culture that valued education, that valued autodidacts - people who taught themselves - exploration, a fundamental curiosity about how the world works. And an unyielding confidence that, even if you weren't an expert in something, you could still figure it out with the right combination of self-education & curiosity. So what's the message for us? Your generation - I will say, our generations - need to revive that special combination of curiosity & self-confidence. That special sauce that allowed America to succeed as an insurgent was that unmitigated curiosity & the totally unjustified confidence of our Founding Fathers. We should expect more of one another as citizens. We should expect more of ourselves. We should expect more of our leaders. These are the stories of American history that we deserve to revive, our children - our grandchildren - deserve to hear. That's the story of American Exceptionalism." - Vivek Ramaswamy

The Conservative Alternative

150,544 просмотров • 1 год назад

We asked Brad Gerstner about the future of AI and America. "The age of AI is going to be the biggest supercycle of our lifetimes." "But it's going to lead to a lot of dislocation. The world will end up in a better place, but it doesn't mean that everybody ends up in a better place." "We need our best and brightest to rethink the social contract in a way that holds this fragile experiment (that is America) together." "We can't take for granted that we can go through this magnitude of change that AI is going to bring and that nothing will break."
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We asked Brad Gerstner about the future of AI and America. "The age of AI is going to be the biggest supercycle of our lifetimes." "But it's going to lead to a lot of dislocation. The world will end up in a better place, but it doesn't mean that everybody ends up in a better place." "We need our best and brightest to rethink the social contract in a way that holds this fragile experiment (that is America) together." "We can't take for granted that we can go through this magnitude of change that AI is going to bring and that nothing will break."

TBPN

37,278 просмотров • 1 год назад

Over the past two decades, we made it effectively illegal to build a nuclear power plant in this country. That was a massive mistake. If we get government out of the way and make it easy to permit and build, we can have a nuclear energy renaissance in this country.
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Over the past two decades, we made it effectively illegal to build a nuclear power plant in this country. That was a massive mistake. If we get government out of the way and make it easy to permit and build, we can have a nuclear energy renaissance in this country.

Mike Gallagher

12,158 просмотров • 1 год назад