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Abraham: Document parsing succeeds by reading visual cues like humans do
“Our Insight here was that these documents were made for humans like you and I to read. Every little visual cue, like a gap between two paragraphs, that's me telling you, hey, this is a new semantic piece of information, or a tab structure in a list is me telli…”
Abraham: Launching early in established markets wastes prospective customers' time
“We had gotten this advice of you should launch early. You need to like get this out there. Don't be afraid of failing with your launch. But we knew that we were In a space that if we launched too early and the product wasn't good, it would sort of be a waste o…”
Abraham: Proving AI applications hallucinate on hard PDFs secures sales calls
“I would upload a hard PDF into AI applications, and I would show them that their application is hallucinating. It would be a very clear, like, here's the document that I sent in, and your model is actually making up information that wasn't there. And for any p…”
Abraham: Horizontal document parsing transfers learnings across healthcare, insurance, and finance
“It is very valuable for us to Not deal exclusively with healthcare customers and not deal exclusively in insurance or finance or any given use case because the learnings that we have from each type really transfer across them, and they've made the product into…”
Abraham: Small teams scale by questioning if non-core features should exist
“In that restrained scope, a lot of the way that we've been looking at this is not a
Build versus buy decision.
It's a, does this feature even need to exist?
Like our customers really, really asking for this, or is this something that we are sort of lying to ou…”
Adit Abraham: The Top Founder Lesson Is Recognizing Personal Malleability
“The number one thing that I've learned is actually not a specific skill. It's almost just this general idea about how malleable you as a person are.”
Abraham: Diligence VCs by talking to founders of their failed portfolio companies
“The number one thing that was most helpful for us was actually talking to companies that raised from them that didn't work out. I think it's often the case that you find out what it's truly like to partner with a person in the bad scenarios, as opposed to the …”
Abraham: Long-term relationship dispute resolution skills translate to co-founder dynamics
“And something that I mentioned a lot is both of us have been in long-term relationships for a while, and I really see co-founding a company as very similar to that, honestly. And the things that you learn in terms of settling disputes and like talking through …”