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+1 . I think it takes a certain type of mental or emotional deficit to forfeit all of your free time and the majority stake in your company for funding for a t
by zug_zug 7d ago
+1 .
I think it takes a certain type of mental or emotional deficit to forfeit all of your free time and the majority stake in your company for funding for a tiny shot at hitting a grand-lam.
"Not everything needs to be a platform". I remember a 10 person company that did translation dispatch for medical needs in California. And the CEO was insisting we needed to someday "become a platform."
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- Terr_ 7d agoSimilar to "needs to be a platform" [0], another variant is "be a data company" where somehow the underpants gnomes will transform your moat of stored information into profit. [0] Read: "Needs to be pitch-able to investors as a magical 1000x growth unicorn."
- fragmede 7d agoit's no longer a theory. google paid millions for spirit airlines' emails and internal messages to be used as training data for their AIs.
- ambicapter 7d agoGoogle already had the machine, this was just feeding the machine. 99% of companies do not have this machinery in place and probably wouldn't know where to start.
- Terr_ 7d agoYeah: Spirit Airlines didn't become ultra-awesome with the power of all its "data", it went bankrupt. I'm not sure on how much of the flight/sales/maintenance data is being used, versus simply a big archive of emails and support calls.
- fragmede 7d agoProbably by emailing google, meta, OpenAI, and Anthropocene, saying you have a dataset and asking if they'd be interested.
- dwaltrip 7d agoAfter they went bankrupt... right?