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Knapp: Apple Screen Time features have failed to reduce phone addiction
“It's clear from that chart that like Apple's sort of screen time features and all that stuff. It's like, it's not making a difference. Like this is still a problem.”
Knapp: ChatGPT generates bland 'oatmeal' ideas compared to weird human concepts
“The way chat GPT looks at the world, it just tends to be like kind of the oatmeal version of things. And I'm so much more interested in like the opinionated, like weird versions of things that people come up with. I still feel like for weirdness, Humans have l…”
Knapp: Founders rarely dial in customer first principles before tech stack
“Even if you've been thinking about it for a long time, it is rare that people are totally dialed in on the first principles on the basics. Always helpful to say, well, let's just back off of the tech stack. Let's just talk about who's the customer.”
Jake Knapp: Purely money-motivated founders struggle to build unique products
“The thing about the motivation is I per just personally, like if I'm investing in a company, I'm a little nervous if their motivation is just money, just because that's like, well, yeah, of course, like that should come if you do a good job here, but it's a li…”
Knapp: Having No Competitors Can Signal Weak Demand
“Competitors might be a substitute. So a substitute of like, ah, I use, yeah, like I'm using this thing to solve that problem. I do this thing instead. And sometimes the competitor is nothing. Like there is actually no thing that solves it, which can be, I mean…”
Jake Knapp: Relying on AI for Ideation Weakens Founder Conviction
“Like if you, I feel like if you rely on it to do the thinking for you will miss, you know, God, honestly, even if it does come up with a great thing, not stepping through and processing it yourself, I think it's hard to have the motivation to the, and the conv…”