Timour Kosters
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Investor & builder working in blockchain and ml. Tweeting: @timourxyz
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Many founders might be tempted to cast a wider net and get more users onto the product — but Ofstad again cautions against moving too quickly here. With just pockets of those click-into-place customer moments, the Airtable team knew it would be an unusually slow path to launch.
First Round Capital • Airtable's Path to Product-Market Fit
How to approach decentralization for a tradco - First map the governance surface: - Who are all stakeholders, what are their authorities - Then figure out what is desired state. - Then doing one authority delegation at a time, and then building meta process around assessing, choosing, and decentralizing specific authorities in the community.
Rehash: A Web Podcast • S3 E6 | DAO Decentralization Thesis & Artificial Intelligence w/nintynick
What we’re seeing is AI emerge from the infrastructure layer to the application layer—the parts of technology that everyday people interact with.
Rex Woodbury • The TikTokization of Everything
Assess the potential and spot the openings: “We spent a lot of time thinking about ‘What is the market for this?’ Spreadsheets have been around forever, but most of the time, people use them to track objects: people, companies, simple tables. They're not doing modeling and number crunching, which they were invented for,” says Ofstad. “And when
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The early vision was to democratize software creation. We all felt we had this crazy superpower of being able to build software, which had given us these advantages in our careers. You can have tremendous influence in an organization — even if you’re not in leadership — by building software and deploying it to people. So broadly, we were exploring
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Perhaps no use of AI is more visible to more people than TikTok’s For You Page. They have pioneered using AI to create incredible recommendations.
Rex Woodbury • The TikTokization of Everything
Multiplicity principle: we are not one, we are many
Parts can be seen as clusters of beliefs and emotions and values that get activated at different times, and that can be interfaced with by treating them as if they were actual subminds.