founders

“Early in markets, like when a new technology shifts and disrupts the whole market, you actually want to just do the easy stuff, right? Why do the hard stuff? There's so much low hanging fruit. Why don't you just go after the stuff? It's super easy. And my sort…”

“I've really seen, I feel like I've seen two types. One is they really want their business to win. That's fine. Some do great. Some are, they really want their customers to win. And they're so obsessed with serving the customer that that works out.”

“Founders that are on top of Gen AI technology, thus, you know tech oriented product leaders, I think are much more likely to succeed than someone that maybe is more business oriented, more business savvy, but it's not, doesn't have a good feel for where AI is …”

“I think at the beginning you have to short, you have to think short term. You're just optimizing for closing the deal or closing a couple customers, but once you have your legs under you both can think more long-term and also you have obligation to, because if…”

“If you feel like you are micromanaging, if you feel like you need, if you feel like, you know, you have to be involved in everything, I think that's a bit of a cop-out as a founder, because you're just like, I just need to be involved in everything. It's like,…”

“I feel like a lot of founders now are almost a little bit too worried about what the labs are doing. And so they're not entering new verticals or sort of staying away from things that they think is in the roadmap of the lab.”

“I think one of the curses of being a founder today is just how much like founder advice there is out there.”