design

“I think the vast majority of firms do not understand design fundamentally. I think most folks in the venture industry still think about design as sort of a, you know, as sort of the drapes and the drop shadows, as it were, as sort of styling exercises.”

“The second thing that you want to think about from an org structure perspective is tie-breaking. Where do you want the decisions to be made? So for example, if you want decisions between product and engineering to be made by you, then both functions should rep…”

“There was an uphill battle along the way, obviously, selling people on, frankly, the importance of design and what it could do for them, and, you know, we look at it now, and it's obvious that was a huge differentiator in the company, and it really set us forw…”

“Design you might think of as that thing of visual manipulation on a canvas drawing some mock, but actually just as valid is A bunch of iterations via prompting or just as valid is writing some code because maybe designing via coding is faster.”

“There will certainly be far more software. It's probably a fairly safe assumption. Far more technology. What differentiates it is probably how it feels and how it works. And that's very hard to copy, right?”