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Hiremath: Zero software cost businesses must rely on network effects
“The businesses that succeed in a world where software costs approach zero will be built on network effects.”
Hiremath: Historically All Successful Companies Had Intense Work Cultures
“It's like all of the successful companies have had pretty intense cultures historically, and it's just a function of a startup, right? You got to work harder than everyone else, obviously in a sustainable way to succeed.”
Hiremath: Human data labeling and talent assessment are now the same problem
“Actually, our insight about the market is that human data and talent assessment have actually become the same thing, right?”
Adarsh Hiremath: Major founder decisions like dropping out are made emotionally
“Like most of these decisions, you just make them completely emotionally, and I just knew I wanted to work with my best friends.”
Hiremath: AI model evaluation definitionally requires human-created datasets
“I think a lot of it will be human data going forward, and I think a great example of this is evals, right? Evals for models definitionally have to be outside of model capability, right? In order to see whether model is doing well at a particular task, You need…”
Hiremath: You Can Teach Technical Skills, But You Can't Teach Care
“One realization that we've come to is that you can teach people a lot of things, whether it be, you know, technically or going to market or whatever, but The one thing that you can't quite teach people is to care, and that's one thing that we index on pretty h…”
Hiremath: Top 0.1% talent delivers exponential value, making customers price-insensitive
“There's a huge difference between the top .1% and then the 80th percentile person. So usually for customers, it's not a question of price. It's a question of quality.”
Hiremath: The greatest technology companies of this generation are usage-based
“And I think a lot of the greatest products or companies of our generation have been usage based, right? I think Stripe is a great example of this.”
Adarsh Hiremath defines AGI as automating economically valuable work and research
“When we achieve AGI or sort of like think about AGI, it will certainly involve You know, doing more economically valuable work, right? So when more and more and more of economically valuable work has been automated to some extent, you know, research has been a…”