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Alan Kay

2 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 6, 2025 by Ivan Zhao · said 3 times in 3 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Mar 6, 2025 positive
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Zhao: Computing pioneers believed software shouldn't separate builders from users
“For them, people like Douglas Anglebar, Alan Kay, Ted Nelson, those first generation pioneers, for them computing, there shouldn't be a separation between builders and users. It's the same medium.”
Ivan Zhao Mar 6, 2025 ▶ 8:29 Notion's lost years, near collapse during COVID, staying small to move fast, building horizontal
Aug 30, 2026 positive
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Seshan: AI-generated sites realize Alan Kay's vision of malleable software
“Sites kind of realized the dream of like malleable personal software that Alan Kay, you know, flagged in the sixties of like the true personal computer is one that has personal software. In some ways sites are like the tangible way to make that possible.”
Tara Seshan Aug 30, 2026 ▶ 49:39 AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)
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