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“When a famous name helps a startup raise millions, does the idea get better or just louder?”
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The anti-uptrust
First time I'd heard of Cluely, a startup that whose website explicitly says "invisible AI to cheat on everything" and raised $15M from a16z. Check out 21 yr old founder Roy Lee at 9:50 in this podcast "theres not enough viral content to go out.... "You know, there are 13 ways of doing anything. 11 of them will work. Just pick one and do it.”
Dennis Hightower, who at the time was head of Disney International. He asked me why I wasn’t doing something, and I responded by explaining the pros and cons of two different ways of doing it. Thoughtfully, he replied “You know, there are 13 ways of doing anything.... - nat...
- eric.ries...
Thanks, this is helping me remember the amount of headroom we have on designing a training program that's better than what e.g. GW Bush happened to go through.... More from that article: Speed is a formula for success because: Rapid product beats the competition Rapid results build team morale, leading to even more results Rapid results generate more interest (from the press, customers, prospective hires, etc.) Rapid results increase... - stephen...
TIL UpTrust is in a startup accelerator 😅 Also yeah, super big problem and growing. Pre-2023 data is like gold, but also data cleaning and filtering strategies are becoming increasingly necessary (and AI can't be relied on for the filtering)....