Emerson Spartz
16 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 16, 2023 by Emerson Spartz · across every show →
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Feb 16, 2023
Spartz: 'Stay Home, Save Lives' Facebook frame was most viral ever
“I made in Two hours of work. I made a viral Facebook photo frame. It was like a circle around your head that said stay home, save lives, which if you're on Facebook, you would have seen it because hundreds of millions of people used it. And it was the most vir…”
Feb 16, 2023
Spartz: People focus on learning specific skills instead of meta-learning
“Basically I find it fascinating that people, people like they try to accumulate a specific skill and they're like, I'm going to develop this skill. I'm going to get good at like making a websites or I'm going to get good at this programming language or this, y…”
Feb 16, 2023
Feb 16, 2023 neutral
Feb 16, 2023 positive
Spartz: The easiest way to go viral is copying viral concepts minimally
“The easiest way to actually make something viral is, like, just copy something that already exists that's, like, viral, and then just, like, modify it a bit. Basically, my mental model here is, like, if you just want to get attention, you should change it as l…”
Feb 16, 2023 positive
Spartz: Books provide a five-hour summary of an expert's life work
“For content that has a longer shelf life basically somebody spends their entire life's work studying something, and they, they'll spend years trying to, like, find the perfect way to explain what it is they spent their entire life learning, and in five hours y…”
Feb 16, 2023
Spartz: Competition compresses business profit margins down to 5% over time
“Best predictor of margins is competition. Where there's competition, margins get compressed, and almost everybody squeezes down to, like, a five percent profit margin over time, and so the only way to, like, increase that number is to find some sort of market …”
Feb 16, 2023
Feb 16, 2023 negative
Spartz: Retention systems matter less than speed and comprehension
“And level three is retention. Like, how do you actually remember this stuff later? That step, though, is actually, for most people, not even important, because the most useful thing is, like, just read faster and make sure you're actually understanding what it…”
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Feb 16, 2023 neutral
Feb 16, 2023
Feb 16, 2023 neutral
Spartz: The defining economic impact of AI is zero-cost content creation
“Internet one point oh changed the world by bringing distribution cost to zero. Like, you could argue that was the single most important thing that the internet did, was it brought distribution cost to zero. And you could argue the single most important thing t…”
Feb 16, 2023 bullish
Spartz: A large percentage of future influencers and relationships will be AI
“In a world where all the influencers are, you know, AI, they're not human anymore, or, like, a large percentage of them, rather, are AI influencers. A large percentage of all relationships online become with AIs because the AI can be tailored.”
Feb 16, 2023 positive
Spartz: AI interfaces will shift from open chat prompts to guided button UIs
“This is just kind of early days of AI, but what it's gonna be is, like, first it starts with just a blank, you know, a blinking cursor in a search box where you have to, like, spontaneously think of what you want to ask the AI or what you want the AI to do, an…”
Feb 16, 2023 bearish
Spartz: Founders should never rely on Product Hunt for marketing launches
“You don't ever do anything on Product Hunt. Like if you're, if your marketing launch plan involves Product Hunt at all, don't do it. That's fiercely competitive. You're competing with all the other 20 something males who want to start a business.”