It’s totally possible! I think by the time you’re feeling comfortable enough with your $200-400k salary that you don’t want to leave, that might already be a sign that you’re not in the win at all costs, relentlessly resourceful, insanely ambitious category required for venture
@danshipper
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Venture Scale AI Companies: Significant Challenges Remain
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Indeed! Not meaning to say venture scale companies don’t work, there is still a lot of opportunity. It’s just very hard
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Bootstrapping vs Fundraising: The Startup Dilemma
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This is true! And bootstrapping / being profitable carries its own set of risks, especially if lots of other competitors are out raising you. It’s very hard to thread the needle
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Speculative Fiction: World of Exceptional Founders
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On that note, I’d love to read speculative fiction about a world where the “truly great founder” archetype was significantly more common—it’s an interesting thought experiment
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Bottlenecks in AI Progress: Scientific Advancement vs Founder Talent
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Yeah! I think it’s a good question what the actual bottleneck is. I think @itsurboyevan would say it’s fundamentally scientific progress. I think that’s part of it. @pmarca has said it’s not enough truly exceptional founders. I think both are probably true
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VCs and Founders Face Reality of Building Generational Companies
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Vibe I am getting without referencing data: A lot of VCs and founders are realizing right now how hard it is to build a truly generational company It is still 100% possible, it’s just still very rare. The glut of VC funding in the 2010s era was predicated on the idea that
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Synthetic surveying and personality simulation for customer development
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A. Synthetic surveying / customer development is a cheaper alternative to doing the real thing, which is useful for ideation B. It makes customer development available even to people who don’t have large distribution C. The effective simulation of personality is a game changer
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How Much Should We Optimize Our Lives With ML?
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How much should we optimize our lives? Machine learning has an interesting answer:
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GPT-4 Prompt Length Limits vs Code Interpreter Capabilities
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I just pasted a prompt that GPT-4 complained was too long into Code Interpeter which happily accepted it
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GPT-4 Context Window Workaround Using Code Interpreter
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Pro tip: If you're hitting context window limits in GPT-4, just switch to Code Interpreter. It has a bigger context window