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Networks are creator-friendly for liquidity but extract value once established
“When a network or marketplace is trying to get liquidity, they're very, very creative friendly. And then once they reach liquidity, they start to try to capture more and more of that value.”
AI wrappers survive because platforms like OpenAI must design for average users
“Shopify has to make millions and millions and millions of users happy. So they're designing towards the middle. They're designing towards the average. But if you're building a custom GPT or you're building a quote unquote chat GPT wrapper, you can afford to ma…”
Building a faceless YouTube channel eliminates key person risk
“When you build a faceless YouTube channel, it has certain attributes where there's no key person risk.”
Process Street prevents stale SOPs by forcing updates when operations deviate
“The way I think about Process Street, we have living documentation, and what I mean by living documentation is at the point that our operations veer from the way that we have a documented process, there's like a forcing function in Process Street that makes yo…”
Founders should separate reliable revenue businesses from an experimental personal brand
“Maybe one answer could be to sort of build a personal brand where your brand is built around trying a lot of different things. Like Sam is trying out custom GPTs this week and AI avatars next week. He's actually building this quote unquote boring sass on the s…”
Founders can use paid ads to quickly test value propositions
“You could do a similar thing with paid ads to just see, okay, which value prop gets more clicks or which value prop gets more attention. If you have a new paid platform where ads are underpriced, that might be another arbitrage that you can jump on.”