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AI startups: Sell work, not software
For the past 25 years, application software startups have had a singular focus: increasing company and employee (including developer) productivity. This…
Aug 21
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July 2023
The Mitochondria in Startups
On hiring and retaining employees who act more like founders than employees (update to 2016 post)
Jul 25
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Benchmark's New General Partner, Victor Lazarte
Today we’re announcing that Victor Lazarte has joined the firm as our newest General Partner and cofounder. We use this term because the firm remains…
Jul 24
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Don't Fall Into the Trap of Taking the Wrong Lessons from Others' Success
Another reminder on the value of first principles thinking
Jul 14
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Time to start cross posting on Threads :)
fwiw (not very much) quick take
Jul 6
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Time to start cross posting on Threads :)
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May 2023
"They're the ones who reached out to me"
AKA you don't want the plumber who can come right away.
May 4
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April 2023
How to escape competition -- Building enduring application-level value with LLMs
[Fell off the weekly-post horse when the SVB stuff went down, but trying to get back on. Will need to feel out pacing…] It seems clear that over the…
Apr 24
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March 2023
Founding a company? My nudge to choose to be co-located (vs distributed).
Pre-COVID, a lot of companies that were already scaling got forced to be distributed when shelter in place first hit, and then it was close to…
Mar 9
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My "Two min workout"-equivalent post
Combination of travel and my 10 month old waking up during my writing time (this morning was 4:30am! sleep training tips welcomed…) means I wasn’t…
Mar 3
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February 2023
10x and cheaper in an AI world
Almost 7 years ago to the day, I wrote a blog post called "How to build an enduring, multi-billion dollar business: create a 10x product + recast…
Feb 22
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Taking advantage when a window opens for you
I remember when I joined Pinterest in 2012, the company still had a relatively low profile. And then things changed - Pinterest got pulled into the PR…
Feb 18
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Feedback loops, and Google’s home-field advantage with LLMs
When I was at Pinterest leading product for the Discovery team, we started to leverage deep learning for our recommendations. It was always the case…
Feb 11
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