A founder once shared that launching on producthunt, getting to #1 and acquiring thousands of users ultimately killed his company. He explained that it gave them a false sense of product market fit that they fundraised against to build a bunch a features to solve problems real users never had.

Can confirm that investors do not value product hunt traction. Many see it as a negative signal.

This entire article can be answered by a single word: instagram

I cannot say that you are definitely wrong, but I do think that the article is worth the read even if that is the answer.

Kinda like blockchain right? it's only been a decade, we're still trying to absorb it.

Kinda like any invention after two years: the telephone in 1878, radio in 1892, airplanes in 1905, computers in 1947, the internet and web in 1992... Had they changed the world yet? No, just stupid hype!

OP has a point...

First link is Cisco laying 4K to focus on AI. Not jobs replaced by AI. Second link is MSFT laying off 1500 doesn't say they were replaced by AI. Third link, read the comments, it's a reorg. Normal at big companies. Fourth link is a startup ceo who is replacing 2 interns...

"The tech giant is planning to let go of 30000 employees from its ad sales unit after its recent advancements in artificial intelligence said president of the Americas and global partners Sean Downey last week. As per a news report, new innovations can automatically suggest and create ads for customers, requiring basically, no human intervention. This development renders the ad sales unit essentially redundant."

?????

>Fourth link is a startup ceo who is replacing 2 interns...

The question was whether there was job loss to AI.

I can't find any news stories about 30K jobs at Google going to AI. The references to the information are false. This leads me to believe this isn't a real story. If it was every news outlet would've reported on it.

To beat salesforce you need to win over the admin/rev-ops or trailblazer as SFDC celebrates them. They throw monthly events in their skyscraper in every major city globally and an annual retreat/festival called Dreamforce to keep them loyal. It's not a better tech problem, it's a network effect. Good luck ripping them from the church of benioff.

I don't get the fascination with robots. There are billions of humans. Countries are restricting immigration to keep them from coming in and disrupting economies. And yet, there is awe with trying to build artificial humans?

This entire article could be a sentence: Apple is taking a small model approach to Generative AI so they can run them on-device.

When I was 35, I had a mid-20's startup CEO ask me if I still had it in me... what?

Hehe "ask your mom" might have been a response I'd give. Maybe not an appropriate response, but at least it'd be entertaining.

haha. I'm pushing 50. If somebody asked me "Do you still have it in you" I'd say "What, to disconnect Zoom calls with smug 20 somethings? You bet." [End Call]

Dang, my 35yo self probably would have punched it in the nose and asked if it was good enough.

I joined as a senior leader and inherited a ton of 1:1s that I felt were a net negative for the organization. The majority of time people used these meetings for personal promotion thinking this was a time to show they are in the know and wanted to informally bring it to my attention. My response was always did you talk directly to the person responsible? When the person said no, I'd say lets do it now and pull up my phone and call the person on speaker.