Dennis Mortensen
19 statements across 3 episodes · 6 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 24, 2016 by Dennis Mortensen · said 4 times in 4 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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2018 1 mention in 1 episode
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- 20VC: YC's Daniel Gross on How YC Can Democratise AI & Reduce Incumbency Advantages, Why ML Enabled Software Will Eat The Software That Ate The World & Whether AI Will Produce Independent Companies or Be Technology within Incumbents
- 20VC: The Power Of A Concentrated Seed Portfolio, Why Operational Value Add Models At Seed Do Not Make Sense & Why We Will See A Shakeout Of Growth Stage Investors with Roger Ehrenberg, Founder & Managing Partner @ IA Ventures
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
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Jun 24, 2016 bullish
Jun 24, 2016
Jun 24, 2016 negative
Mortensen: Tech incumbents have zero usable data for training AI scheduling agents
“There you have no data set, as in zero, nothing, because there is no agent-human negotiation under a given dialogue model that exists in that data set, and you can't label it in the past, as in, what if the agent said this, what would the human then say?”
Jun 24, 2016 bullish
Mar 3, 2017
Mar 3, 2017 neutral
Product-market fit means inbound demand outpaces sales hiring capacity.
“I do think, though, that upon product market fit, the market will arrive, but that is that moment for where you would almost know that you reached it, that you can't build up Your sales team quick enough. The incoming leads are faster than what you can train n…”
Mar 3, 2017
Mar 3, 2017
Mar 3, 2017 negative
Multiplying per-seat pricing for teams reflects a lack of product imagination.
“Our team edition is just you pay more, as in you've got more seats, and then if it's 17 seats, I multiply the price by 17. If it's a thousand, I multiply by a thousand. I'm not so sure that you've exhausted your imagination if that's what you get to.”
Oct 19, 2018 bullish
Mortensen: Conversational UI Will Dominate Alongside Existing Interfaces, Not Replace Them
“Though I am very bullish on this being a very dominant UI of the future, not the one for where every prior app that we have had up until this point will move over to this newer UI, I don't think that's the case. I think we'll still have a mix of UIs, just like…”
Oct 19, 2018
Oct 19, 2018 negative
Mortensen: Focus on Customer Pain Rather Than AI-First Hype
“You shouldn't try to be mobile first, or AI first, or cloud first, or big data, or whatever the term might be of the particular era. You should just really let onto that customer pain, because that is the truest thing that you can let onto.”
Oct 19, 2018 positive
Mortensen: Conversational UIs Shift Computing From Executing Tasks to Setting Objectives
“All of the prior UI paradigms had one thing in common, that they assisted you in doing a task, doing that task a little bit faster, a little bit more accurate, doing the task in such a way that you couldn't really do it by yourself to begin with, as in, you're…”
Oct 19, 2018 positive
Oct 19, 2018
Mortensen: x.ai Should Have Prioritized Data Labeling and Hybrid UIs Earlier
“I would spend less time on building the first models, as in, none of them survived anyway, and I would spend more time In trying to define what data to collect and how to label it. Two, I would have leaned into a mix of UIs quicker, not have spent three years …”
Oct 19, 2018
Mortensen: Founders Should Err on Giving Up Too Late, Not Too Early
“I'd certainly much rather err on the side of giving up a little bit too late than giving up a little bit too early, because the whole most likely outcome of any startup is that we will die. But the only way you're going to figure out that you will not die is t…”
Oct 19, 2018 bullish
Oct 19, 2018
Mortensen: I Should Have Shut Down My Failed Startup Earlier
“I think I could have closed it down better, but I fought so hard to the very last day, then another three weeks, then another two months for where, hey, Dennis, this thing died three months ago, and somehow you kept it on life support, and everybody would have…”