David Hsu
13 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 7, 2024 by David Hsu · across every show →
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Feb 7, 2024 positive
Hsu: Roughly half of Retool's early 20-40 employees were former founders
“One thing we did actually early on that I think has paid a lot of dividends, especially, you know, which was a lot larger now is we hired a lot of former founders. So I want to say like when we were, I don't know, 2030, 40 people, we were probably like half fo…”
Feb 7, 2024 bearish
Feb 7, 2024 negative
Many 2013–2017 startup founders held only single-digit equity by IPO
“If you look at actually a lot of founders in sort of, you know, the operations, statistics space, or, you know, those that fundraise, like, you know, 2013, 20 17, a lot of the founders by IPO only have a few percentage points, actually, for company.”
Feb 7, 2024 bearish
Silicon Valley is still largely searching for real AI use cases
“Especially in Silicon Valley, where a lot of the innovation is happening, I think there's actually not that many AI use cases, to be honest, and, ah, AI, to me, even as of what, like January, 19, yeah, 19 to 24, still feels like, ah, in search of truly good us…”
Feb 7, 2024 positive
Hsu: Retool had 5-6 years of runway paying founders $30k-$40k
“I think that at that point we had raised something like maybe a million dollars, maybe a million and a half coming out of YC. So, I mean, to us to people, you know, that was a huge amount of money. I was like, wow, like how are you ever gonna spend a million a…”
Feb 7, 2024 bullish
Hsu: AI workflows, not chat or agents, are the next value driver
“So we think sort of the AI workflow space is a really exciting space, and I think that is the next step in sort of delivering a lot of business value by AI. I personally don't think it's, you know, via chat or, you know, via agents quite yet, so.”
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Feb 7, 2024 neutral
Hsu: AI chat only boosts productivity 10-20% and won't replace employees
“The chat, again, will help you, like, 10 or 20%, but it's unlikely that you're going to replace an employee with chat. Like, you know, you're not going to be like, oh, I have a relationship manager at JPMorgan Chase, and I've replaced him with an, you know, AI…”
Feb 7, 2024 negative
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