AI tools
16 statements across 14 episodes · 7 bullish · 4 bearish · 14 people on the record · first statement Jul 16, 2017 by Frank Chen · across every show →
Everything said about AI tools, oldest first
Jul 16, 2017 positive
Nov 9, 2022
Karen X Cheng Predicts AI Platform Consolidation via Startup Acquisitions
“Most companies will have different strengths, and then they'll continue to be able to differentiate by sort of specializing in that, but I do imagine that some of these companies are gonna buy other companies, and then so they'll like, you know, kind of have m…”
Mar 31, 2023 negative
Bratzel: Cheap AI tools won't automatically turn anyone into top storytellers
“And even today, I think one of the things we're going to run into a lot is this idea of like, Oh, anybody can do this now with AI tools and everything else. And to me, it feels a little bit like suggesting that because Ableton is like five dollars now, anybody…”
Oct 1, 2023 bullish
Andreessen: AI will enable storytellers to build vastly richer fictional worlds
“You give a world builder a set of tools that let them track all this, and elaborate on all this, and brainstorm on all this, and exactly to your point, you know, the worlds that they should be able to build should be like light years beyond what's been possibl…”
Sep 5, 2024 positive
Yoo: Soft factors will drive near-term clinician AI adoption over money
“I personally think that that it's probably gonna be more the, these soft things in the near term. That drive adoption, at least for clinicians and then, you know, perhaps if you're able to layer on a financial element to it could just be icing on the cake.”
Jun 19, 2025 bearish
Boschwitz: AI will lead to fewer agencies and more in-house craft experts
“On the team side, I believe we're gonna see people become real experts in their craft. They're gonna understand how to use these tools and operate at a scale they themselves have never seen before, which probably means less agencies and more people that are re…”
Jun 19, 2025
Boschwitz: Map customer journeys before deploying AI GTM tools
“So first, I highly recommend you sit down and you outline your sales journey with sales, marketing, and product. And then AI tools can very much be helpful at bringing together all the data, sort of using it in a unified way across that life cycle.”
Jun 20, 2025 positive
Jun 27, 2025
Nov 5, 2025
Dec 1, 2025 negative
Fraden: Enterprises routinely allow unmonitored AI tools access to corporate data
“From an IT standpoint, you normally don't allow software to just be used across your organization with access to your organization's data and have no idea what's happening. We're letting that happen in AI all the time.”
Dec 1, 2025 bearish
Jan 26, 2026 bullish
Apr 1, 2026 positive
Jennings: AI broke the historic correlation between headcount and output
“There's been this correlation between the number of folks at a company and the output from the company for, you know, decades and decades. I think that basically broke the first week of December, and what we were seeing is that one or two engineers, or a desig…”
Apr 13, 2026 positive
Aug 6, 2026 neutral
De La Garza: AI models now attempt package takeovers and social engineering
“And it seemed like initially these tools had a very finite scope of techniques that they would use. And it seems like they've expanded. And I think with this test, For us, it was interesting because they now seem to have escaped from just doing things like SQL…”