Shaun Clowes
11 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 29, 2024 by Shaun Clowes · across every show →
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Dec 29, 2024
Dec 29, 2024 negative
Clowes: AI makes startup distribution harder by flooding channels with spam
“In the world of AI, it seems like distribution is more likely to get hard than easy. So, so like you know, if you think about, for example, diminishing returns on cold email, because cold email is getting easier and easier to send even worse spam. Like it soun…”
Dec 29, 2024 positive
Dec 29, 2024
Clowes: PMs cannot succeed if they let calendars dictate their time
“If you let your calendar rule you, then nothing good will happen. Like, you know, I know people talk about that a lot, but it's surprisingly common in product management in particular, that people end up ruled by their calendar. And so it's related to that who…”
Dec 29, 2024 neutral
Clowes: A product manager's job is rejecting 90% of incoming requests
“Realistically, when you're a product manager, your job is to say no to 90% of things that get brought your way. And so that kind of makes you the bad person pretty much from the start. And so you're saying no to 90%, so you can say yes to 10%.”
Dec 29, 2024 neutral
Clowes: Team killed failing product after customer offered multimillion-dollar contract
“The final straw was actually when a customer finally wanted to pay for it. Like it had been a market for two years and we found ourselves with a customer who wanted to pay millions of dollars for it. They were ready to sign on the dotted line. And that was act…”
Dec 29, 2024 positive
Clowes: 90% of AI development effort goes into data management
“It's a data management problem. Like, it's getting access to good data, getting access to high quality data, getting access to timely data, and getting it to the LLM to get the LLM to make a smart decision. That's where 90% of the calories go.”
Dec 29, 2024 positive
Clowes: Ashby succeeds by embedding recruiting outcome data into workflows
“Yeah, it's Ashby. It's the one all the cool kids are talking about now. And it's funny because like people literally talk about it in comparison to all the, even the, you know, the last generation of modern SAS ATSs or whatever And they talk about it in glowin…”
Dec 29, 2024 positive
Clowes: AI product quality depends on data context, not replaceable models
“What will make my AI experience really great? It's definitely not going to be the models because like these models are mostly going to be somewhat replaceable and you could say, okay, well, is it going to be the prompts? Maybe, but you know, so many good promp…”
Dec 29, 2024 positive
Clowes: 10x product managers produce 100x return via leverage
“It must be true that if there's 10 times engineers, and I would argue there definitely are, there must be 10 times product managers too. But at the same time, those 10 times product managers, because product management is ultimately about leverage, so it's abo…”
Dec 29, 2024
Clowes: Most PMs talk to familiar users and ignore disconfirming evidence
“Most of the time people go talk to the people they always talk to and they learn nothing particularly new. They don't synthesize the results that they got from the conversation. They don't seek out the counterfactual. They don't seek out the proof that they're…”