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question and answer was assessed with names hidden, the host's own answers included, on
four things from 1 to 5:
directness (does it answer the question asked), coherence (do the ideas follow),
precision (concrete details and clear references), compression (says a lot per word). The weighted
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Answered raw tape
D 4 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 3.85
Q I think dilution-wise you're absolutely right. If you could turn the clock back 10 years, or to 2010, when you started an incorporation, what would you do differently?
A The thing is, in, with hindsight, it's very easy to say that, right? It's very easy to say, I would have done this or that differently. Had I known in the beginning that we'd be selling the company at some point, and, and how this all would go, I might have hired a bit less people, and, and, and, but, because we, A whole lot of the things that we did, we did just because we thought it was fun, and not necessarily because we were thinking about how to, like, make the most money. Um, if you, if I look, you know, at it and back at it, maybe we hired a bit too much at, at certain points in time, and, and also, right now, we, we're really not that big. EOS as a company is not that big anymore. Uh, in terms of, or any more, it's not, it's a hundred people, but if you look at, like, thirteen million websites, uh, having a 120 or so people is really not all that much people, right?
AI assessment note: “I might have hired a bit less people”
Answered raw tape
D 4 · C 4 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.60
Q So you don't, so that's fascinating. So you don't think that, by the way, the funding hype is overhyped. You think this is justified? You think this is a fundamental platform shift like mobile was?
A And of course, yeah, of course the funding hype is overhyped. I mean, but that's, it always is. But it's also because a lot of money has to go into it, and we have to try a lot of different things to figure out which ones work. I, so I do really think that, that AI can make a very, very different, uh, well, can, can, can change where we go in terms of how big companies need to be to do things and how many things we can do on a day. I think using machine learning to, to do so much of the work that people are doing on a day-to-day basis could be very powerful, but we need to get better at Actually understanding what is machine learned. So we need explainable AI in a way. We need to actually understand what it's doing. So we can train a model to say, hey, you are getting credit. You are not getting credit. But in the end, we actually have to be able to explain why, why it's making that decision.
AI assessment note: “of course, yeah, of course the funding hype is overhyped.”
Redirected raw tape
D 2 · C 3 · P 3 · Cm 2 2.55
Q What would you do differently if you were Matt?
A I wouldn't work so hard. No, I, I don't think that's fair. I think I have a tremendous respect for what Matt has done with automatic. Um, I think So for me, WordPress, the project is super important to me as a person, which I think Matt has to, has as well. Like he, he'd be happy doing that until he dies. And for me, it's also like, whatever I'll do, I'll be in the WordPress community. And I think that that is something that he's built, that that is so much more powerful than all the other things. It's that community and those people, we, we often say come for the software, stay for the people. Uh, and I think that's very true.
AI assessment note: “No, I, I don't think that's fair. I think I have a tremendous respect”
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D 1 · C 3 · P 3 · Cm 2 2.25
Q What would you do differently if you were Matt?
A I wouldn't work so hard. No, I, I don't think that's fair. I think I have a tremendous respect for what Matt has done with automatic. Um, I think So for me, WordPress, the project is super important to me as a person, which I think Matt has to, has as well. Like he, he'd be happy doing that until he dies. And for me, it's also like, whatever I'll do, I'll be in the WordPress community. And I think that that is something that he's built, that that is so much more powerful than all the other things. It's that community and those people, we, we often say come for the software, stay for the people. Uh, and I think that's very true.
AI assessment note: “I think I have a tremendous respect for what Matt has done with automatic.”
