Builders

“If you start to talk to the agent in this builder in the back end, it will develop its own, what I call personality or you can call it brain, but it will develop its own personality to do it.”

“For a lot of the strongest builders in the group that I'm associated with, compensation is an all time high. They have more offers than they've ever seen.”

“Every construction project is a financial project at the end of the day. Right? So what, An owner, a builder cares about is end of the day. And did I make money on that project or not?”

“I do think that there is a future where I think by the end of the year, what we're going to start to see is these start to get even murkier, murkier, where I think in some places the title software engineer is going to start to go away. And it's just gonna be …”

“I think we're gonna start to see the title software engineer go away, and I think it's just gonna be maybe builder, maybe product manager, maybe we'll keep the title as kind of a vestigial thing, but the work that people do, it's not just gonna be coding, it's…”

“When I started selling real estate as an agent, I would represent some builders cause that's kind of a, one of the holy grails of being a real estate agent is you get the listing up front, you get the listing on the second time when they go to sell it.”

“I hate to say it, but I think the venture investors that have to sell their value adder off are not the ones that are the value adder. The ones that are the value adder off are the people who have been builders before. The people who can empathize with the ear…”

“So many early stage builders and late stage builders ended up spending like equivalent or more money on lawyers than they were on engineers.”

“I think that folks who are builders, product people, developers, makers, I don't think you're an entrepreneur until you take on the, A full role, a full scope of running a business.”

“AGI is just necessary, but not sufficient. A lot of the value is still gonna require a bunch of hustle from a lot of builders to really turn that new source of energy and channel it into something that we humans want to use that solves some of our problems. An…”

“Another aspect of exposure hours is that you tend to overrate how well your products work. It's very important to give your product to another person and watch them interact with it. Expose yourself to the pain of reality. And the more you sort of like submerg…”

“And as builders, even Google builders, great job, Google, like enable more of these interfaces. We're just going to get a step function increase in engagement on them.”

“If you're actually building things and you want to be a part of creating it. It's much easier and more fruitful to be optimistic and think about all the things you can do and think about what you personally can do and what you can work on. Versus just being li…”

“They'll definitely be less, less builders. As a percent, it'll go up, right? Because you're going to see tons of people who don't identify as builders leaving the ecosystem. I consider these people like tourists basically who got in when it was like really sex…”

“And my take on this with Sandstorm is I think the builders themselves are the ticket. If Nike comes to Sandstorm and says, I need a shoe, a builder is gonna be able to deploy that across five different virtual worlds, five different formats, and allow them to,…”

“There's people that the best builders are making 20,000 dollars a month. There's some builders that are making a, you know, a few hundred dollars”

“I think with RERA Act being implemented, the quality of builders who will sustain themselves will improve.”

“So one of the like biggest gaps we found in all the other builders out there is the pages they build are just really, really slow.”