Artifact

“With artifact, the interesting thing is I feel like the sort of core UI, you know, we probably could have shipped several months ago, but like this is product lives or dies by its recommendation.”

“I think what people don't understand is we're not building a news service. Like, maybe I shouldn't be saying this as much as I say it, but like, no, I'm interested in core recommendations. I'm interested in the science of utilizing people's tastes and profiles…”

“If anything, I think we should have started with the kernel of the idea, launched that thing really quickly and then gotten feedback.”

“We had hundreds of thousands of people sign up the first day.”

“There's parts of this product that exist, you can DM people, you can post socially, like, Facebook or Twitter, like, they're entire, there's entire pieces of this app that people can use, it's just locked away and not launched. We have over, we could have laun…”

“This is not a company we could have started at a Dogpatch Labs in 2010. It's just not, we couldn't have done it.”

“Our team has seven people, you know, we're just getting started.”

“But you don't take on small challenges when you're a second-time founder, so I'm excited to go after it, and I think it'll take at least five years to get even close to that point.”