sari
- don’t think your way into doing, do your way into thinking
cut your words in half
- It took 4.5 years and ~$1bn raised for OpenAI to launch GPT-3, which was their first PMF product. That breaks every “rule” in the startup world, around mvp and being capital light pre-pmf. Goes to show you that you have to define your own rules to get outsized success.
the people who curate the Internet who have a point of view will actually become the centers of attention, and you cannot replace that with AI. You cannot replace that curator function or that guiding function that we've always looked to other individuals to do.
-Nilay Patel on Ezra Klein
“Traditional competition forces us to take on an attitude of winning. A Worthy Rival inspires us to take on an attitude of improvement. The former focuses our attention on the outcome, the latter focuses our attention on process. That simple shift in perspective immediately changes how we see our own businesses. It is the focus on process and const
... See morea note from a believer:
Sari, I remember that as a kid, I always knew I was different, and wanted to show it. I’d tie my Converse shoelaces in the shape of a star, I’d zig when others zagged, I’d take pride in being Mexican in my mostly White North Carolina small town, and this all showed through in my work. I was Me. And somewhere along the way, th
... See more“The sign of a good strategy is that it makes some customers unhappy.”
— Michael Porter
If you are not leveraging *all* of the growth [motions] x [levers] combos below in your growth model, you will be disrupted by competition who will.💡Strategy is not about which 3x3 option to pick, but rather when and how to sequence them all.
Gradually, then Suddenly retail edition The graph below is of US ecommerce penetration “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” — Vladimir Lenin