Evans: Chatbots are a terrible user interface for AI
“I feel like chatbots are terrible interface and users need product and interface and tooling and company and go to market around that.
And so that we all have thousands of companies that go out and build that.”
Shipper: AI will eliminate software interfaces in favor of pure delegation
“I think we're just getting to a point where for pretty much all of these, you know, all the usual applications, AI is going to be good enough that we can get rid of the interfaces more or less where you're like digging into all the things that it's actually do…”
Bosworth: AI Will Simplify Every Digital Interface and Problem Space
“Every single interface that I interact with, every single problem space that I'm trying to solve are going to be made easier by virtue of this new technology.”
Nadella: Enterprise AI agent data access will use licensed connector interfaces
“On the enterprise side, I think what will happen is everybody will say, hey, in order for you to either action into my action space or to get data out of my sort of schema, so to speak, there is some kind of an interface to my agent that is licensed, so to spe…”
Palihapitiya: AI models will commoditize while scaffolding and interfaces capture value
“So I think the right way to think about this now is the models will basically be all really good. And then it's all this other stuff that you'll have to pay for interface. Whoever builds all this other stuff. Is going to be in a position to build a really good…”
Follow Up Boss is the best real estate CRM with no close second
“Our primary product is an integration between real estate CRM follow a boss which is, it's the best real estate CRM. It's really, and there's really not like a close second.”
Interface has reached approximately 165 customer teams on its platform
“We just passed one 50. I think we're one 65 ish.”
Interface generates between $15,000 and $20,000 in monthly revenue
“We're probably 1515 to 20,000.”
Interface has scaled to its current revenue entirely bootstrapped
“Bootstrapped.”
Daniel Poston currently owns 80% to 85% of Interface
“No, it's about 80 to 85%.”
Interface is acquihiring an Indian engineering team for 15% equity
“We actually are in the process of acquiring a team in India. They built a AI chat bot and didn't have great product market fit. I need the developers. And so we're in the process of merging companies right now. And so they're getting about 15% of the business.”
Poston uses a modified Slicing Pie equity model with 2x hour multipliers
“Slightly modified slicing pie model where you measure how much you put into the business in terms of like hours and dollars. And then you convert that to pie slices where every hour you put in, you, it gets a two X multiplier and every dollar that gets put in …”
Poston originally hired his eventual technical co-founder as his assistant
“I was working for a real estate team. I was a chief data officer and hired him as my assistant.”
Hwang: The AI competitive moat is shifting from data to interface design
“The amount of data you need to pull off certain types of machine learning applications is going down over time. And what that tells me is that there might not be necessarily a first-mover advantage in this space, where you may actually have collected a bunch o…”
Macmillan: The best interfaces for voice output are task-driven
“I think the best interfaces are task-driven.”