Tomer Cohen

11 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 27, 2023 by Tomer Cohen · across every show →

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May 27, 2023
Prediction Open · timeframe May 2028
Cohen: Job skill requirements will change by 50% in five years
“You look at it five years ahead, they're going to be 50% different.”
Tomer Cohen May 27, 2023 ▶ 1:24:53 Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 27, 2023
Insight
Cohen: Product leaders must give up deterministic control when building AI
“You don't control the experience. AI is not deterministic. If you ever had an interaction with JGPT, it's, you know, you're, most of the time you're trying to, hard to anticipate how it would respond. And I give the analogy of a chef in a restaurant where befo…”
Tomer Cohen May 27, 2023 ▶ 59:48 Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 27, 2023 positive
Insight
Reid Hoffman reframes binary choices with unexpected 'option orange' alternatives
“I would come to Reed and I'll say, Hey, there's option A and option B and help me think for those. And he'll give me option orange that I haven't even thought about before.”
Tomer Cohen May 27, 2023 ▶ 4:20 Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 27, 2023
Insight
Cohen: Define success metrics before building, not retroactively post-launch
“I always like to start with before you launch, before you even start building, what is success? Like, you know, once you launch it, what should be going up into the rights that should be excited about? Don't tell me in retrospect because, you know, then you're…”
Tomer Cohen May 27, 2023 ▶ 31:23 Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 27, 2023
Assertion Partly supported
Cohen: Job skill requirements changed 25% over five years
“If you look at the skill set you needed for a job today versus five years ago, that has changed by 25%.”
Tomer Cohen May 27, 2023 ▶ 1:24:39 Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 20, 2023
Insight
Cohen: AI-first product design requires relinquishing control over user experience
“When you think in an AI first principle kind of way, You're really unleashing the idea of control. What happens basically in AI is you don't control the experience anymore.”
Tomer Cohen Dec 20, 2023 ▶ 0:22 Roundtable #7: Spotify, Adobe and Linkedin on How AI Changes The Future of Product & Design | E1097 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 20, 2023 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Cohen: LinkedIn will not hire product leaders lacking AI willingness and aptitude
“I would not hire you to my org if you're, if you don't have the willingness and the aptitude to go deep.”
Tomer Cohen Dec 20, 2023 ▶ 53:46 Roundtable #7: Spotify, Adobe and Linkedin on How AI Changes The Future of Product & Design | E1097 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 20, 2023 positive
Insight
Cohen: AI strategy must originate from the CEO, not be delegated
“But for many product builders, AI is something they delegate. I mean, it's like really delegated to the AI team or the engineering team. I think AI strategy starts from the CEO and makes its way down.”
Tomer Cohen Dec 20, 2023 ▶ 6:02 Roundtable #7: Spotify, Adobe and Linkedin on How AI Changes The Future of Product & Design | E1097 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 20, 2023 negative
Insight
Cohen: Monolithic AI agents are wrong; systems require multiple specialized agents
“Building one agent to rule them all is not the right design. You want to have multiple types of agents.”
Tomer Cohen Dec 20, 2023 ▶ 13:30 Roundtable #7: Spotify, Adobe and Linkedin on How AI Changes The Future of Product & Design | E1097 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 20, 2023 neutral
Insight
Cohen: A product leader's primary job is defining algorithm objectives
“My opinion as a product leader or a designer or an engineer or a product manager, like data is literally at your second most important job in your role. It's understanding how do you basically start to infuse all of data collection and make sure it's high qual…”
Tomer Cohen Dec 20, 2023 ▶ 30:54 Roundtable #7: Spotify, Adobe and Linkedin on How AI Changes The Future of Product & Design | E1097 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 20, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Cohen: Massive startup innovation will emerge in AI model routing tiers
“If I think of like why I would expect to see some massive innovation and startups to show up, it's in this tier to really allow people to leverage multiple models at multiple call centers and resources and efficiencies, and then completely mask it from the dev…”
Tomer Cohen Dec 20, 2023 ▶ 11:55 Roundtable #7: Spotify, Adobe and Linkedin on How AI Changes The Future of Product & Design | E1097 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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