Everything Aaron Goldsmid said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Goldsmid: AI Agents Will Only Succeed at Low-Leverage Tasks
“And so I also think that the, are AI agents going to eventually get there for sure, right? But I think they're going to get there for relatively low leverage work. And I think that if they are interacting with a human, I think the human's going to get pretty a…”
Goldsmid: Microsoft's Xbox Would Have Failed Without Halo
“I was at Microsoft when we launched the first Xbox. If we didn't have Halo, it wouldn't be something we talk about anymore, right?”
Goldsmid: Apple Vision Pro Fell Short Without a Killer App
“And I think what you saw kind of fell short on that Apple Vision Pro is that they didn't have the killer app, right?”
Goldsmid: Early seasoned PM hires fail because founders shouldn't yield vision
“On the flip side, I've seen founders bring in amazing seasoned product leaders and they, three months later, they're no longer there because the founder was not in a place nor should they be in a place To give up that product vision to someone else.”
Goldsmid: Startups should hire their first PM around employee 30 to 40
“I typically see PMs like the first PM be higher number, I don't know, 30, number 40, something like that. I think that is a, I think that's like the right sort of time to think about it because you've probably raised enough money. You've seen enough traction.”
Goldsmid: Chasing Feature Requests Turns Startups into Custom Dev Shops
“A lot of early founders can get lost in that. And effectively find themselves waking up and being a custom development shop and, you know, wasting a lot of money and time.”
Goldsmid: Apple's SMS 2FA autofill drove a 22% conversion increase at Twilio
“Remember when Apple, that two FA, the two, the SMS that
For two of a, when that little sheet came up and said, just add this.
22% increase in conversion.”