garrickvanburen

raw spelt is fantastic in beer. Malted spelt is indistinguishable.

10yrs isn't far enough. 2016 wasn't that different from today relative to media.

> Just use the LLM to make a thing that's actually good at what you need it to do.

Yes, this.

Ad revenue is why Twitter removed their RSS and heavily restricted their API forever ago.

1. I'm the product owner, I can demo it for you. 2. I know who the product owner is, and I think it's live. 3. I think it's currently under development...or maybe we're still gathering requirements 4. Budget has been assigned, but work hasn't started 5. It's listed in a slide deck

Early on my corporate career, I quickly realized “have” had 5 distinct definitions.

For a couple years, I officed out of a VC firm. It was terribly helpful in taking off the shine.

This was my mantra when I ran strategy for a corporate venture studio: every existing spreadsheet is a prototype for a potential new product

It’s about quantifying the business value of the software to a specific customer segment.

More on my approach here: Https://forstarters.substack.com

Few b2b buyers prefer it, for the same reason. For example, this is why reserved AWS instances exist.

Yes. I focus on pricing software and I’m a bit baffled why frontier models are pushing tokens.

It’s a race to the bottom, and the bottom is unlimited use for a flat monthly rate.

Granular pricing (tokens, minutes, etc) is pretty anti-customer generates less revenue than customer value-based subscriptions (why SaaS is such a good business model)

I often make the analogy that LLMs are like Amazon same day shipping. You can have later today, but it's unlikely to be the best offering...just the best you can get later today.

There's a lot of stuff that we just don't need to do. Not right now. Not ever. That's OK.

Yes. This is consistent w/ my default position: "if LLMs are good at it, we probably don't need to do it."