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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…”
Siroker: Rewind AI has massive switching costs due to accumulated personal data
“The switching costs are very high. And we also have everything you've seen that are heard up until you start, since you use our rewind. So even if tomorrow, Some big tech company launches what we do. You know, we've got a lot of users who say, well, why'd I sw…”
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…”
Siroker: Pitch junior VCs at non-target firms simply to practice your presentation
“I would hone it and use I hope I just doesn't offend anyone, but use like associates and VPs at firms that you don't want to take money on as practice. Cause you meet these people, their whole job is to meet with you and get deal flow. But like, actually, you …”
Siroker: The biggest flaw of note-taking is needing foresight on future needs
“You never know what you're going to need later. That's the biggest downside to taking notes is like you need the foresight to know what is it the thing I might want later.”
Siroker: Private, continuous personal context is Rewind's moat against LLM providers
“The data of the fact that we were introduced by Paul Graham in 2010, the data of the fact that he's an investor in our company and that, you know, he just launched a new feature. All of that is data that no large language model company or provider could offer.…”
Siroker: Tech adoption tips when utility greatly outweighs perceived privacy concerns
“And so the, when the utility greatly outweighs the perceived concerns, I think that's when these things tip.”
Siroker: Investors dislike auction dynamics and prefer negotiating their own price
“The part of the auction dynamic, I think made people feel like they were part of an auction and investors don't like that feeling. They like to think they got a, you know, that they did their job to get a good price at the current price.”