Darren LI

Etsy, ProductHunt and Pinterest (the latter two both A16z portfolio companies) are building solutions from different directions, and a great many people trying to replicate some form of the boutique model online as well, as I suggested here - to create some kind of specialist curation.

But why make this point? Well, splitting the hair between profit and usage is important to measuring long-term success. If a project gets great adoption but cannot drive revenue, it will die. Some wishful thinking might argue that the community will take over, but there’s been little evidence to indicate this happens.

3. Companies want to customize language models to their unique context.

It’s delightful to have the freedom to Bring Your Own Client (BYOC): to choose your favorite application to interact with some data.

6. Don’t start out with a DAO. A lot of our internal governance/decisions or interactions between members is not what you usually see, and I think community governance is extremely inefficient and makes no sense for most products. I think DAOs only make sense for a few small categories of products.

2. They also have ~55% of volume of assets going towards exchanges.

In streaming settings, StreamingLLM outperforms the sliding window recomputation baseline by up to 22.2x speedup.