Dan Siroker
24 statements across 1 episodes · 11 bullish · 6 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 14, 2023 by Dan Siroker · across every show →
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Sep 14, 2023
Sep 14, 2023 negative
Siroker: Ex-Apple founders often fail to ship due to unrealistic quality expectations
“I see a lot of companies today that are ex Apple people who've built amazing things and they go off and they spend years and years toiling away and never really ship anything. And, you know, I think they have this sense of like, it needs to be As good as the l…”
Sep 14, 2023
Siroker: Most Regrettable Founder Mistakes Were Deferring to Board or Experienced Hires
“My gut says we should do A, somebody else thinks we should do B, and it turns out poorly. There are plenty of times we said I should do A, and it turns out poorly. I don't remember any of them. The ones I remember are like these deep existential, my intuition …”
Sep 14, 2023 neutral
Rewind Evaluates Performance Exclusively Against Defined Cultural Values in Quarterly 360s
“When we do quarterly three sixties, which most startups don't do when we do them, the criteria we evaluate each other and I get evaluated on by my team is our cultural values. There's nothing else. There's no other thing that your performance it is. Do you liv…”
Sep 14, 2023 negative
Siroker: Google's 'Googliness' Was Poorly Defined and Occasionally Weaponized
“Google has this, Sense of Googliness that you had to assess candidates by, but it always frustrated me that there was no clear definition of what Googliness meant, what it meant to be Googly. And I actually found that it tended to, on occasion, become weaponiz…”
Sep 14, 2023 bearish
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Siroker: Optimizely would have been far more successful picking one customer profile
“And had I chosen one or the other, it didn't even matter which one it was, we would have been massively successful one or the other. I mean, there's now huge companies that are, have been built and been successful by doing that. So I know we would have been mu…”
Sep 14, 2023 negative
Siroker: Meeting Bots Are Vitamins; Continuous Screen Capture Is a Painkiller
“Scribe was kind of an, and all kind of meeting bots are kind of nice to have. It's a vitamin, it's useful, you know, but like the idea that you could capture anything you've seen and never have to take notes again, that was a painkiller for some people.”
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Siroker: Public fundraising finds better long-term investor alignment than localized networks
“And that's how I view this relationship with my investor. It's something I'm going to spend the rest of my life with. I'm going to be doing this for decades. I don't want to just meet the person I, you know, find at a bar. I want to cast a wide net and potenti…”
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Sep 14, 2023 bullish
Siroker: AGI will eventually perform half the work of human engineering teams
“Eventually, you know, I don't think it will necessarily replace engineers, but it'll certainly augment them. You'll have plenty of, you know, half the work that an engineering team does will be done by AGI, and half will be done by humans, and the human stuff …”
Sep 14, 2023 neutral
Siroker predicts 50% of work will be fundamentally changed within 10 years
“I think a lot of jobs will be gone in 10 years, but they'll likely be replaced with new ones.
I think that's probably an obvious
Conclusion.
I think on the order of probably 50% of work will go away.
It would be fundamentally changed.”
Sep 14, 2023 bearish
Siroker: Highly paid hourly knowledge work like legal tasks will likely disappear
“I do think things like white collar knowledge work that is high paid, lawyers being one of them, is probably a good area. I think anything where today people are paying a lot of money and people are being paid by the hour that a machine could do as better, in …”
Sep 14, 2023 positive
Siroker: Rewind ensures it passes the 'subpoena test' by retaining zero data
“You know, for us, the test I always use is if we were subpoenaed by the government, would we hand over anything useful or meaningful? No, like we never want to be in a situation where We have data about anything you've done that then we could hand over and tha…”
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Siroker: Rewind is exploring custom hardware due to off-the-shelf device limitations
“We are hiring for hardware people so it's possible that down the line if we cannot, by the way, I'm very much a big fan of software. I don't know if you're if you've ever done anything hardware related, but software has many, many benefits of which I'm the big…”