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Mignano: AI will eventually generate dynamic social media feeds without human creators
“Sora, to me, feels like this third, the start of this third phase where Eventually they don't really need creators to make content, right? Yes, today people are prompting, but you could very easily imagine a world in which you're just coming into the feed, and…”
Opinion
Mignano: Sora proves AI labs can build net-new consumer apps that threaten startups
“Sora is kind of proof that, no, these labs, like, they have the taste and capability and the horsepower and the execution to build and ship net new products that also might run you over.”
Disclosure
Mignano: Lightspeed got lucky timing Suno investment and may have overpaid
“You know, with Suno, I feel like we kind of got lucky that we met the team at a certain time and, ah, were able to invest like kind of just as it was inflecting, and Yeah, sometimes you just get lucky and maybe overpay just to be able to do it.”
Opinion
Mignano: AI Makes Web Browsers an Investable Category
“No, actually AI Creates like a really interesting opportunity for the browser to be an investable service.”
Insight
Mignano: AI Models Will Become New Distribution Engines for Creator Likenesses
“Maybe the model is the distribution then, like we're saying, and maybe similarly how for TikTok,
It became about, obviously, the videos, and we can create a video, but you could also, like, you could let creators pull from the song catalog.
You know, Instagram…”
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Mignano: Nobody has built a real AI tutor product yet
“And obviously a lot of people have been talking about this for a while. AI is going to be a great tutor. It's going to be great at teaching you things. But nobody's really gone in and built the product for that yet.”
Insight
Mignano: Tech never democratized music creation until generative AI
“If you look back at the history of all the products that have done this in one form or another over the past 25 years, nobody's done it for music. The reason, you know, we believe is that Technology up until AI did not make music creation easier, right? The ca…”
Insight
Mignano: Suno users uniquely create music primarily for their own listening
“People were making music For themselves. They're creating the music that then they will go listen to, which I think is super interesting. I can't really think of a behavior we've seen like that in any other format. Like people don't write for, you know, to rea…”
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Mignano: Top Consumer Startups Pitching Lightspeed Rely on Micro-Creator Distribution
“I mean, all of the best consumer startups that are pitching us, they have these crazy growth charts, and they're all doing exactly this to do it.”
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Mignano: Anchor Manually Created RSS Feeds for Apple Podcasts Initially
“We literally had physical human beings manually creating RSS feeds and submitting them to the Apple Podcast Store on our user's behalf when they tapped a button in the app. User didn't know it.”
Assertion Supported
Mignano: Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley launched an AI geolocation audio app
“Dennis Crowley just launched something. Dennis Crowley's the founder of Foursquare, you know. Dennis Crowley's the founder of Foursquare, you know. Amazing consumer, product builder, thinker, super creative. You know, he just launched something. Where when you…”
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