Luke deWilde

"Peloton’s quest to become the Apple of fitness hamstrung the brand. Forgoing vertical integration, new content/software/hardware bundles are emerging. Whether Peloton pursues FaaS or not, open ecosystems will continue to gain traction."

What I try to look for, and I'll tell you how I look for these things, but I try to look for companies that are early and inevitable. This is the combination of words that I think about. Stripe did an amazing job of this.Their mission is to increase the GDP of the Internet. Cool. Most people probably believe it's inevitable, that the GDP of the... See more

And then the soft things that I look for, I like this metric, I try to figure out, how will I feel if this person called me at 10:30 at night? I like really try to think about the way it will feel. The phone rings, it's this founder. Am I excited to talk to them?

" Positioning the company for a sale and charting a new path forward, Blackwells said Peloton should focus on fitness-as-a-service, or FaaS, by: focusing on softwareoutsourcing manufacturingcreating an open ecosystempartnering with equipment makers"

Adam Grant actually said this one time, which is most ... He was talking about parenting. He said, "Most people think of parents as you're either ... It's a spectrum between being highly demanding and being highly supportive of your kids. Pick where you are in the spectrum." He was like, "That's all wrong. The best parents are both." Huge unlock... See more

ModelsText is the most advanced domain. However, natural language is hard to get right, and quality matters. Today, the models are decently good at generic short/medium-form writing (but even so, they are typically used for iteration or first drafts). Over time, as the models get better, we should expect to see higher quality outputs, longer-form... See more