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Just think how insane it is that there have been ~12,000 generations of humans, but yours is the one that gets to witness the birth of AGI.
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Steve Jobs once said: "The most powerful person is the storyteller."
Brian Chesky, the co-founder and CEO at Airbnb, is one such storyteller.
Brian Chesky turned AirBnB into a 75 billion-dollar company with a simple philosophy: "Storyboarding a 10-star experience."
Here's what it means in Chesky's words:
5-star experience: Host opens the door promptly after knocking
6-star experience: Airport pickup
7-star experience: Pickup with a limousine with pringles and coconut water and a surfing magazine
8-star experience: An elephant pickup and parade at the gate
9-star experience: "Beatles check-in" with screaming fans and press conference
10-star experience: Elon Musk picks you up and takes you to space
"To build something people love, you must do something more than what they expect. Every moment is an opportunity to do something slightly more than people expect."
This same customer-first philosophy applies more than ever to AI products where your design and UI are what unlock distribution, and distribution is the moat.
Do you think AirBnB will fix what is currently broken with this philosophy?
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The reason that products are great is because the people who created them were obsessed.
I don't think there is any other way to make something truly high-quality.
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The universe contains infinitely more beauty than humans can ever appreciate. While you enjoy the spectacle of one sunset, trillions of sunsets are simultaneously occurring across the universe, painting alien skies with color frequencies you couldn't even perceive
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Q: Why is it so important to get the first few hires of a startup right?
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison explains it really well in Startup School’s Hiring and Culture Lecture.
It’s critical to get the first 10 hires of a startup right because each of those people will hire or recruit another 10 people on average if your company is successful.
So instead of thinking of it as hiring 10 people, you should really treat it like you’re hiring 100 people.
The first ten employees will set the foundation for the culture and talent bar of the company.
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Given average lifespans, children born this year can expect live to the year 2100.
Gen Alpha will experience a fully automated, post-scarcity society.
AGI will be as abundant as running water.
Near-zero cost clean energy.
Multi-planetary settlements.
What a time to be alive.
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Average cost for 1 gigabyte of storage:
40 years ago: $238,000
35 years ago: $48,720
30 years ago: $5,152
25 years ago: $455
20 years ago: $5
15 years ago: $0.55
10 years ago: $0.05
5 years ago: $0.03
Today: $0.01
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As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.
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"Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world ?" — Steve Jobs, to Pepsi President John Sculley
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Set and maintain high standards. If you have to be hard on people, do it with love and a genuine wish for them to improve. Praise people when they hit the standard.
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We choose to have the problems we have. There is nothing stopping us from moving at this speed
This video Austin links of a house being built in less than three hours in San Diego in the 1980s is amazing: youtube.com/watch?v=oDB1O5ca…
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if your startup could just be a feature of a bigger company, you have no company
incumbents can call OpenAI APIs just as well as you can
you have to solve problems in a way they can't (or don't have the will to) and it has to be the core value-prop of the company
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To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment. Most large organizations embrace the idea of invention, but are not willing to suffer the string of failed experiments necessary to get there.
~Jeff Bezos / Amazon
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The only thing that really matters for a startup is having a product that people really want, and ideally can’t help but tell others about.
That’s probably 90% of the game. All the other startup accoutrements that we all hem and haw about are worth the other 10%.
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Everything that needs to be created needs to be designed - not just products and marketing, but processes, experiences, organizations, forms, and materials.
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By popular demand, my morning routine:
* Wake up 3 minutes before my first Zoom meeting.