Hamish McKay

4 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 18, 2025 by Hamish McKay · across every show →

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Jul 18, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
McKay: Princess Polly customer service rejects order changes within 10 minutes
“If you make a mistake on Princess Polly and you reach out to customer service, their response will be, Hey, sorry, we've already processed your order. It's about a ship in like 10 minutes, and we can't make any changes to it, but we do do free returns.”
Hamish McKay Jul 18, 2025 ▶ 6:18 Why Every Checkout Will Have This in 5 Years
Jul 18, 2025 negative
Opinion
McKay: AI podcasts will fail because humans cannot connect parasocially with AI
“They'll ultimately go and die because humans are Inherently lonely, or at least the majority of the human race would describe themselves as lonely or close to it, and they want to hear two people have a conversation and connect, and they want to connect in a p…”
Hamish McKay Jul 18, 2025 ▶ 31:29 Why Every Checkout Will Have This in 5 Years
Jul 18, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
McKay: I refuse to use AI for net-new idea generation
“My answer to that right now is that I try and not go to it for net new thinking. I use it as a reviewer. I use it as a summarizer, but I don't come to it for idea generation because I like to train my brain to come up with ideas.”
Hamish McKay Jul 18, 2025 ▶ 39:04 Why Every Checkout Will Have This in 5 Years
Jul 18, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
McKay: About 1.5% of Shopify shoppers make checkout mistakes
“What we're finding in the Shopify space specifically, which has this accelerated checkout is about one and a half percent of all people will make a mistake.”
Hamish McKay Jul 18, 2025 ▶ 0:46 Why Every Checkout Will Have This in 5 Years
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