Levi Lian
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Levi Lian
wow. an amazing 325 page google strategy document quietly unsealed buried in google antitrust docket. It's gonna take a long thread but I have pulled out the gems. It's from 2017 planning, no doubt Google will just say these were only ideas but many will look very familiar. /1 https://t.co/aQzSlKQQlU
Elicit just hit $2,000,000 annual recurring revenue, about 9 months after launching subscriptions. That is *absurdly* fast.
Hereās a š§µĀ about how we managed this, and how it benefits all current (and future!) Elicians.
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Nike is down 30%+ YTD (wiping $60B+).
A former Nike branding exec wrote a viral post and blames it on three decisions Nike made in 2020 under incoming CEO John Donahue.
The plan prioritized the direct-to-consumer (DTC) business but backfired:
ā«ļøELIMINATE CATEGORIES: Mckinsey advised Nike to get rid of categories (running, basketball, soccer) and... See more
AI will take all that digital garbage and multiply it by a thousand. Or ten thousand. Or maybe more.
Let's Just Admit it: The Algorithms Are Broken
Yeah I tend to agree ā no shade to Avi as I'm always pro experimenting and trying things out, but I think I prefer a world where AI feels more like a tool that supports (e.g. "bicycle for the mind") than an active entity that lives (e.g. "personal assistant or friend")
Quick weird gestural sketch ~ though I'm not sure if this is really two distinc... See more
ai's role
if you feel like you havenāt contributed much
a thing you can do is assemble a doc listing out all of the things youāve genuinely loved- your favorite books, movies, music, whatever, with a couple of lines about how/why they matter to you
and share that
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