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Gil: About 60% of New Jersey childhood ADHD diagnoses lack testing
“So in the state of New Jersey, it's something like 60% of ADHD diagnoses in kids actually have never the kids have never taken any form of test. It's just somebody deciding that they have it.”
Walls: Sam Altman said polite user prompts cost billions
“I think that Sam Altman one time said that even if you add a nice little thing at the end, it costs them all this. They're spending billions just because people are being nice.”
Patel: HubSpot CMO says 13% of signups come from LLMs
“When I was speaking at Inbound, the HubSpot event, I was with Kip. And Kip is the CMO of HubSpot. He ended up talking about how roughly 13% of their signups come from these LLM platforms, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, et cetera.”
David: Posties is the first fully open-source social media scheduler
“Posty is the first social media scheduling tool that actually, like, fully open source”
Gil: Minecraft was the first billion-dollar single-person company
“People always say, oh, when's the first billion dollar single person company? That was Minecraft.”
Santos: Women make roughly 70% of Gillette razor purchases
“There's a few products that are like this, like the one I usually tell is like, is Gillette where, you know, usually the woman in the relationship is the one that buys the Gillette. It's like, I think about 70% of the purchases of Gillette are by women. Don't,…”
Chesky: Airbnb was the first to combine host and space photos
“On couch surfing, you saw the photo of the person. On Craigslist, you saw the photo of the place, but on no website did you see both, like, the person and their place. I think that was one really important ingredient that made it really compelling.”