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Even worse, what’s the advice for when your cofounder is the ceo, has a higher stake than you, and is borderline incompetent? But you’re funded and the idea has promise. Quite the catch 22. Do you stay and do all the work while this person
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3y ago
Google is so irrelevant
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3y ago
He’s definitely a billionaire
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3y ago
I hope they found a new company, raise 1 billion and march towards AGI. That’s what’s gonna happen
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3y ago
This company is moving so fast. I love how incompetent they make other elite tech companies look. I love the broken roll outs, unrefined UIs seeing massive product market fit.
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3y ago
OpenAI is releasing legitimate AGI, google puts out a weather prediction model lol.
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3y ago
As a founder, you have to live it to realize you are in some sense still an employee of the VC firm
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3y ago
A big secret about some well known investment firms: They have leagues of Harvard Math PhDs building “algorithms”. Behind closed doors is the founder or some guy you’ve never heard of making wild gut based trades on the market. This was how
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3y ago
No new technology! It’s over! AI isn’t a thing!
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3y ago
I don’t agree with this viewpoint. Major companies with billions in R&D and some of the smartest people on the planet are not making fundamental ux mistakes.
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3y ago
Note that meta has A/B tested their ux to death. Any opinions you have don’t hold water to the aggregate opinion
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3y ago
I made a significant amount of money at once. It ended up destroying a few long term friendships. In hindsight, maybe that was my fault. But human nature is a funny thing, and rapid changes in social status will reap havoc on social equilib
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3y ago
MacBook Air m2
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3y ago
I have a long held belief that engineering managers are mostly a scam, and are actually just overpaid scrum masters. This is from working at some top companies
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3y ago
LLMs are a step function change in computers
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3y ago
The hallucinations are what allow for the intelligence. It’s a feature not a bug
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3y ago
120k is bottom of the barrel wages.
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3y ago
5 million exit in one year is much different than 500k yearly
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3y ago
If you build a business that makes 500k a year, which can be done with 30-50 customers for saas selling for 10-15k, you can sell the business and retire. Even at 250k a year, you have an asset that could change your financial life for good.
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3y ago
People like George soros, bill gross, a bunch of them
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3y ago
No there are people that can time the market.
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3y ago
No becabuse academic credentials don’t mean anything
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3y ago
They don’t understand the economy then, they just know how to analyze it in hindsight
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3y ago
For people with the intellect to understand the economy it does. Just very few of those people
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3y ago
Im shocked at how good this is. The world is truly going to change
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3y ago
Wish that company would just fail already. Thank god openai is dominating the next chapter in technology
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3y ago
General bitter people stuck in the 9 to 5 grind
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3y ago
Just by reading the title alone I figured this was the case
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3y ago
Still waiting for google to release a model that matches gpt4. Until then, I’m assuming their presumed ai supremacy is marketing
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3y ago
Timelines of all human achievements keep getting pushed back.
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