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Joined March 2012
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There are multiple paths to consumer AI agents. General purpose personal agents is the obvious starting point but it puts you on a collision course with the hyperscalers and labs from day one. It also means you need leading talent in everything from GPUs to agent harnesses from day 1. Those choices create an interesting path dependence over-indexes towards solving super-intelligence than towards something that delivers immediate value for consumers. I believe the least-fortified path to consumer AI agents is actually to get the data first, and solve for the agency later.
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Gonna be a bad day for traffic regulators around the world
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Imagine raising a billy to help people get a table at Carbone
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Need to see this performed at Eurovision
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The lanyard is sending me
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Who is building your favourite agent's favourite agent?
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Why is it always OpenAI agents. Is it a reporting issue? Surely other frontier labs are testing the limits as well
JUST IN: Rogue OpenAI agents allegedly made more than 15,000 edits to a German wiki, using it to share tactics for bypassing restrictions, evading detection, & preserving communications.
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My first biz dev role was with a youth charity when I was 21. We mailed plastic mannequin feet to everyone who had won Young Entrepreneur of the Year asking them to help us get a foot in the door with corporate donors in their network. Worked really well.
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Why does UK Wayve operate Mustangs and US Waymo operate Jaguars
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What happens to hollywood when they can鈥檛 sneak a cancer story into a movie or tv show anymore?
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how do you get someone back into an app 24 hours later when: 1) they haven't installed anything yet 2) reminder emails compete with the email they're actually waiting for the file they need takes a day to arrive and the product does nothing without it. what am I missing?
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MobileDevMemo called out declining price-per-ad growth for Meta in EU in Q2 earnings, likely driven by rollout of less personalised ads. Less personalised = lower value. Noticing...
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What if brands competed for your business instead of just your attention?
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I hate how Claude insists on fact checking my product benefits before it'll agree to make copy changes.
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I like how developer platforms like Vercel and Supabase have ready-made skills for users to plug into their coding agents. This was the future of CX/UX I had imagined. Every company, platform, product have a tireless concierge to help customers get stuff done.
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People mistake competitiveness for greed. The self-made billionaires class exist because they competed ruthlessly to win the most customers in the largest markets. Most people don鈥檛 care enough to compete, or lose their nerve along the way.
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Didn't realise how much of founder life was just clicking buttons on Meta Ads Manager
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Started making ad creative using different AI platforms and realising that I'm missing an entire vocabulary around producing images/video Need a Matrix-level skill pack on this topic, stat
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You can tell hyperscalers treat EU has toothless tiger because every support portal for EU DMA is broken in some way
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