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“I almost feel like it is the only solution to prevent mass revolution. Because people are going to lose their jobs.”

“I think actually software engineering in the way it is today, I think is, is not going to be a thing because you already have things like lovable and these other companies where you can generate a website or app just in like a few seconds.”

“Consulting a hundred percent like McKinsey all of those big consulting firms. I don't know how they are thinking about things internally, but. You know, doing research and creating a report and creating a PowerPoint deck is almost like the easiest thing you ca…”

“The model's commoditized. And I think the foundation model companies are at most at risk.”

“These are all incremental steps towards what is inevitably a free, pretty much instantaneous, hyper-intelligent, AI at your fingertips. Like that is the end in mine. And so we're on the path to getting there, but you should be planning for that as the end”

“Yes. And I think personalization and proactivity are the two things that I think over the next year are really going to be the things that take AI from a nice to have to, wow, this is ingrained in my life. I don't have to think about it. It's reaching out to m…”

“I mean, I tell everyone we hire, I want a sub-fifty person public company.”

“Sam Altman talks about the one person billion dollar tech company, but maybe there is the one person billion dollar company in general. It doesn't necessarily need to be a software company.”

“So an example of thinking with the end in mind is right now, if you wanted to build an app you may spend 200,000 dollars hiring some mobile app development firm to build it out. But if you look at lovable and how fast AI software engineering is moving, potenti…”

“And so I think AI is just another thing that people like to create a catastrophe out of. Whereas instead it's more like, okay, it's a new thing. It's going to change a lot of things, but. As humans, we find meaning and there are new ways of working and we don'…”

“And so I'm actually like more bullish on the creator economy and like the individual economy, more bullish than ever, because I really do think that When everyone has the means of this hyper-intelligent AI tool, people are going to pay attention to the things …”

“I actually think you need to work more in order to stand out because AI, you can only reap the benefits of AI. If you have something worth scaling, AI can only build off of a foundation that you have spent time building. If you haven't built that foundation, y…”

“You can imagine SEO is not going to mean anything anymore because everyone's going to be doing this.”

“If you think about what happens with email when every single person is using an AI agent to send hyper-personalized Emails to your inbox every single day. People are not going to check their emails anymore. I actually think email is going to be a thing of the …”

“Specifically AI really benefits generalists because it allows anyone to be a polymath before to be a polymath, you really had to be like a special kind of person. But now AI democratizes access to a specialization. You can become a specialist in a couple of da…”

“I think it's such a difficult problem to solve because you get into like political bias and like what's actually right. What's like, what's true and what's false. And then you have like the Orwellian, 1984 view, where if someone has control over, over what's t…”

“The movie whiplash is like a great movie which I personally love it. We make all of our new hires watch it.”

“One, AI democratizes creativity. You know, anyone can be a movie director.”

“Anything that is not relationship oriented like you can go on Upwork and like get all these one-off jobs. I think AI is a much better tool because the relationship doesn't matter there.”

“I think all of the low-hanging fruit of startup ideas, you know, payment system, accounting system, they're all taken. Meaning, I think that really the only opportunities left are those that are weird”

“AI is just math. You pass in a bunch of pictures of a cat or a dog. Think about, you have a child. And you show that child a hundred pictures of a dog and a hundred pictures of a cat. And then you show him another picture. That's either a cat or a dog. He's pr…”

“Easier than ever to get distribution, easier than ever to be really good at something, harder than ever to be the best. And so I think eighty-twenty likely becomes ninety-five-five, where the five percent really reap the benefits of the 95.”

“At a bare bone assistant that can manage your inbox and even like schedule traveling for you, and it doesn't require that much personalization to your life and your nuances. Yes, it's there. People are already doing it.”

“I don't know anything about pricing or branding, but I've become a branding and pricing specialist just by using opening eyes, latest a 200 dollar per month model, which sounds ridiculous, 200 dollars per month for a model, but it's like having. A consultant a…”

“There may be a world where humans don't value in-person communication, but I just think that, you know, that's a kind of habit change that is going to take decades and even centuries to really manifest that we don't value in-person times with humans.”

“We've seen that behavior with Delphi, where someone is, you know, learning from someone's digital mind, and then ends up wanting to meet them even more.”

“And so from the business owner perspective, I think, you know, the founder led influencer, the founder founder led marketing. Is going to continue to become more as this idea of parasocial relationships with business owners starts to be more commonplace.”

“We have CEOs whose teams, like, love the clone, because they don't want to bother the CEO, and they're using it to, okay, is this how he would make, or she would make decisions?”

“Are P people are either going to trust everything or default. It's going to be, I'm not trusting that. I'm not trusting that.”

“We hire two kinds of people at Delphi. Either those that are the top .1% in what they do, and how do you know they are the top .1%? They are more artists than scientists. They're like Rick Rubin vibes.”

“Our first hire was a 17 year old kid from Belgium who now has a visa. Now he's in San Francisco and he has designed Everything in our app”

“Yeah, he's one of our investors. Yeah, he's got a Delphi and everything.”

“That's why we're working on this interview mode feature where you can get them to answer questions about themselves over a period of time.”

“Claude is particularly good for language and writing specifically. You know, if you're emailing someone, everyone speaks different languages, and I don't mean languages as in like Spanish or English. I mean, we perceive things in different ways, and we make as…”