andrea
@andreas
dreaming about the future, romanticizing the past
andrea
a lot of the magic of ChatGPT is nothing to do with AI, it’s just nice to consume high-quality internet content without ads or whacky custom formatting.
the sad thing is, this isn’t a technology problem at all, it’s a business model, copyright & incentive problem. and I’m not sure ChatGPT has figured that out.
Maia Bittnerx.comincentives are everything
The vast majority of founders want to raise something like a small seed round to get going and then never need capital again.
What if we just listened to them?
Tyler Tringasx.comperspectives on funding and venture capital (VC)
this is true. big opportunity for people in VC to shift to building for this kind of customer. Go bug or go home is not what founders want.
on counterintuitive pricing and signaling in marketing
The real villain here is Google.
Google found one of the very best business models of all time, skimming all the surplus profit off of the entire free open internet.
This is the natural end state of that process.