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Opinion
Building successful software is getting harder despite AI and modern tools
“No, I think it's getting harder, actually. Well, number one is because there's so many, when, back in the Barlow days, this is pre-web, this is software that you print on a disk and ship to humans, so you've got, you know, you're shipping it once a year, so th…”
Michael Lopp Jan 25, 2024 ▶ 7:52 The human side of world-class engineering leadership | Michael Lopp (Apple, Palantir, Slack)
Opinion
Muthukumar: Limiting ChatGPT to Writing Copy Is a Mistake for CMOs
“In terms of overall though, in my conversations with CMOs and marketing leaders, I feel like most people are kind of making a mistake. They kind of go out and deploy ChatGPT into their workforce, but they expect it primarily used for writing, like whether it's…”
Krithika Muthukumar Aug 1, 2024 ▶ 58:35 Inside marketing at Stripe, OpenAI and Retool | Krithika Muthukumar (VP of Marketing at OpenAI)
Opinion
Jack Krawczyk credits ChatGPT for proving consumer excitement for generative AI
“I have to give credit to ChatGPT going out into the world and showing people there's more than just the risk of this technology. There's excitement that exists.”
Jack Krawczyk Nov 30, 2023 ▶ 12:02 The Bard blueprint | Creating value, shipping fast, and advancing AI | Jack Krawczyk (Google)
Opinion
ChatGPT succeeded partly by remaining a standalone product outside core workflows
“And when you look at ChatGPT, I think partly why it's been successful is that it's such a standalone product that's not integrated into anything else. And I think if it actually was integrated into your Slack or into your email or into your work, I think peopl…”
Ryan Glasgow Sep 7, 2023 ▶ 48:07 A guide to building product in a post-LLM world | Ryan Glasgow and Kevin Mandich from Sprig
Opinion
Tech is likely near the peak of the current generative AI hype cycle
“I think what we're going through now is we're probably close to the peak of the current hype cycle that was introduced earlier this year with, you know, ChatGPT and everything.”
Kevin Mandich Sep 7, 2023 ▶ 21:21 A guide to building product in a post-LLM world | Ryan Glasgow and Kevin Mandich from Sprig
Insight
Muthukumar: AI Creates Value by Giving Marketers Counter-Disciplinary Skills
“Some of the most novel ways that ChattoBT helps is it makes a fantastic brand marketer also really good at data analysis because it can help them run those regression analyses on the data. Or, you know, it takes someone who is extremely data-driven, maybe they…”
Krithika Muthukumar Aug 1, 2024 ▶ 59:09 Inside marketing at Stripe, OpenAI and Retool | Krithika Muthukumar (VP of Marketing at OpenAI)
Disclosure
Muthukumar: OpenAI operates as a branded house, not a family of brands
“We want that imbued with the same kind of underlying investments that we're making around privacy, safety, data security, the sort of responsibility and approach that we take towards model development and AI development and the future AGI development. It's rea…”
Krithika Muthukumar Aug 1, 2024 ▶ 55:39 Inside marketing at Stripe, OpenAI and Retool | Krithika Muthukumar (VP of Marketing at OpenAI)
Assertion Supported
Muthukumar: ChatGPT has over 100 million weekly active users
“And in ChatGPT, we see more than a hundred million active users on a weekly basis.”
Krithika Muthukumar Aug 1, 2024 ▶ 47:46 Inside marketing at Stripe, OpenAI and Retool | Krithika Muthukumar (VP of Marketing at OpenAI)
Disclosure
Habib: Post-ChatGPT, Writer shifted to selling directly to IT and AI leadership
“Over the past year, we have really been selling to IT and the office of the head of AI. And then they really bring us into that first sort of big impactful use case.”
May Habib Feb 29, 2024 ▶ 11:06 Scaling and selling AI products for enterprise | May Habib (Co-founder and CEO of Writer)
Assertion Supported
OpenAI built the ChatGPT web interface using the Next.js framework
“ChatGPT itself is built on Next.js.”
Guillermo Rauch Nov 2, 2023 ▶ 37:11 How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (CEO)
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