Creative Professionals
topic on 4 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
My First Million 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 
the a16z Podcast
4 statements about Creative Professionals, every show
Puri: Professionals succeed by tolerating their own mediocre early work
“Actually, the difference is when the pro sits down, they make the same type of bad shit you do. They just keep going and they go through the door. Yeah, they sit down more and they stick with it. They're able to face their own mediocrity and tolerate it much l…”
Oliver Wang: Professional creatives will always adopt state-of-the-art AI tools
“The high end, and the professionals, and the creatives, like, they'll always use state-of-the-art tools, and this is like another tool in the tool belt for people to make cool things.”
Kamath: AI's inability to predict counter-trends makes creatives more valuable
“I feel like any model will eventually either predict random or trend, not necessarily counter trend. And most innovation generally comes from counter trend thinking. So creative people will likely become a lot more valuable.”
Belsky: AI productivity gains will increase creative hiring, not decrease it
“And I believe that actually, when you get more ingenuity per person that you employ, the people on your creative team, when you get more possibility from each of them, you're gonna actually want to hire more of them. Look no further than engineers. Engineers h…”