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Brian Armstrong shares the most important lesson from his startup failure before Coinbase After realizing he could make $60/hour tutoring as a college student, Brian and his roommate decided to build an online marketplace for tutors. They would match tutors with students and https://t.co/1zeJHelWlz

The classic software startup writes code to solve users' problems. If AI makes writing code more of a commodity, understanding users' problems will become the most important component of starting a startup. But it already is.

Coming off of meeting a couple dozen enterprises around the future of their AI strategies, here are a few notes on the state of AI in the enterprise right now. 1. The AI-first enterprise is emerging. Given AI increasingly is starting to be used across coding, customer support, marketing content creation, risk managemen... See more

@shreyas IMO the best product will stem from a very strong mental model of the domain and the users. UXR can help you *get* to such a model, and validate it along the way, but it's important to view the syllogism as UXR -> model -> product, not UXR -> product.

Here's my thread about why you should: - quit whatever it is you're doing - build the startup you've wanted to build - work with me and the a16z team 1:1 - And yes, I'll invest $1M via a16z speedrun (and the earlier your startup, the better. apply here: https://t.co/7U8XfKE1wI... See more