Software Product

“I think that as more and more software is made, more and more products are made, I think that the, I do think that the human element of design is going to really Be, start to become more and more important. It's always been the case that I think that, you know…”

“If you're a software product and you don't think AI is going to disrupt not just how you build, but what you build, Then you actually probably want to actively short it.”

“The most valuable software products are going to be using this data scraping tool at the backbone because it makes their AI 10 times smarter.”

“Habitual zone for our minds is somewhere on daily or weekly basis. Anytime you move into being monthly, You're in the forgettable zone.”

“What makes, it actually increases the peril for anybody who's built a software product that has an enormous margin pool. You know, your margin is my opportunity. Well, I can vibe code against your opportunity. It has to be very, very sticky. It has to have som…”

“I still believe that products are no more the moat with AI first world, but in, in, but really hard, in really hard startups, which were, which go beyond just products, I feel still, I mean, the problem itself becomes a moat if you are trying to solve somethin…”

“Regardless, I think that now we're entering this moment where like every, I mean, certainly every software product, in my opinion, has to be refounded because like AI is such a paradigm shift It's not even like, just like the shift from desktop to mobile or on…”

“We're going to see a completely new type of experience and interface to build software products, and it's not going to be humans looking at the code, it's going to be something new, something more like visual, and driven by talking to an AI, and it's going to …”

“Look, like, I think that software as a primitive is changing, and kind of the artifact inside of it is, is a model alongside the software components itself. And so in many ways, I think that, You know, software products will all be model-forward products, if y…”

“The future of products being about composability and not the canvas. And I think that product makers really need to rewire their mindset around this because I think we spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about the UI of something rather than how someth…”

“There are some things that I don't believe in is like MVPs first and foremost is like, if you're building something that people will not be able to use or is not good enough, especially these days where it's It's so much easier to build software, so the attent…”

“I used to think all these products were durable. That they were durable. Now. I don't think any of them are durable.”

“And the number one reason it's interesting for people to start AI workflow agencies and AI agencies and service-based businesses that help implement this stuff is actually not, not because you can make millions of dollars a year from that, but it's to learn th…”

“And so I think what was typically considered to be a more quality recurring revenue stream in software products is going to be less true than it's ever been.”

“The speed to create most software products, if you have a great engineer using AI, has been shortened to days or weeks instead of months or quarters.”

“I think one of the interesting things about the AI wave right now is it sort of resets the playing field where there's a lot of low hanging fruit of things to build. And so it becomes that that's a real opportunity to build things for yourself that like was no…”

“Their buying decisions are actually governed by what tools Are interoperable with the things they already have in their stack, which is probably the prominent buying determiner at this point for most software products, particularly in SAS.”

“I think one thing we probably didn't go over is like buyer founder market fit for the product too is really important because if you have a software product and the person has no technical ability or their co-founder doesn't, it's just going to cause a lot of …”

“I think for me, like, honestly, Greg, like I like media, I like creating content, but I don't necessarily like the media business. I really love building product, right? Like that's what I've been doing over the last 10 years. And so that, that's kind of reall…”

“Just in the first half of this year, it's higher than we've ever seen. On average, a 124 software products per company.”

“A good rule of thumb is if you can sign on to your product, Then you're collecting private information, because you have that key, and then everything associated with it is private.”

“We were still also a consulting firm at the same time. So we were trying to play both sides of the street. And that also probably contributed to some of those difficulties.”