Shensi Ding
6 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 1, 2026 by Shensi Ding · across every show →
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Jun 1, 2026 bearish
Ding: Enterprise SaaS sales are harder because building in-house is cheap
“I mean, I think enterprise sales for these large companies is much harder because the time to build the same exact product in house is just significantly lower. There's also just less leverage. Like when you're doing a negotiation against the customer for why …”
Jun 1, 2026
Shensi Ding: Over-intellectualizing startup building prevents founders from enduring necessary hardship
“I think the best way to succeed is to just do things, and I think if you over-intellectualize your company building instead of actually doing anything, you're too high on Maslow's hierarchy, and that means that you're not actually able to suffer later.”
Jun 1, 2026 positive
Jun 1, 2026 negative
Shensi Ding: Companies over-engineer by training custom models instead of using generic LLMs
“One hot take that I have is that I've noticed a lot of companies, like, kind of over-engineering their, like, ML usage. Like, they'll have, like, They'll build their own custom models. They'll try to train their own models when really, like, you should, you co…”
Jun 1, 2026 positive