garrickvanburen

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by garrickvanburen 13d ago
For a couple years, I officed out of a VC firm. It was terribly helpful in taking off the shine.
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by garrickvanburen 13d ago
This was my mantra when I ran strategy for a corporate venture studio: every existing spreadsheet is a prototype for a potential new product
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AI and Employment: So Far, So Good(marginalrevolution.com)
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by garrickvanburen 1mo ago
It’s about quantifying the business value of the software to a specific customer segment. More on my approach here: Https://forstarters.substack.com
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by garrickvanburen 1mo ago
Few b2b buyers prefer it, for the same reason. For example, this is why reserved AWS instances exist.
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by garrickvanburen 1mo ago
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-custom
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by garrickvanburen 1mo ago
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.
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by garrickvanburen 1mo ago
There's a lot of stuff that we just don't need to do. Not right now. Not ever. That's OK.
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by garrickvanburen 1mo ago
Yes. This is consistent w/ my default position: "if LLMs are good at it, we probably don't need to do it."
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by garrickvanburen 2mo ago
I wrote this back in 2023, and I think it holds “After compiling all these, it still seems neutral to net negative. Maybe a net positive on the customer service side.“ https://garrickvanburen.com/media-tetrad-generative-ai&#
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by garrickvanburen 3mo ago
“In the end, if I’m successful, I’ll have this one bread recipe adapted/developed, and if written out comprehensively for someone else (even future me), it will likely be >4 pages.” https://garrickvanburen.com/only-f
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by garrickvanburen 3mo ago
My default position is: if an LLM is good at it, we probably don’t actually need it.
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by garrickvanburen 3mo ago
There seems to be an overall, “I’m just now aware of this phenomenon, technology must be to blame” when the phenomenon has stayed constant and the tech has shifted under it. #moraloutrage
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by garrickvanburen 3mo ago
Whether grocery shopping or an endurance running event (5K+) those with any kind of headphones in are simply less aware of the people trying to get around them.
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by garrickvanburen 3mo ago
This was my guess on the impetus for the name change as well.
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by garrickvanburen 3mo ago
My preference is to pre-commit by blocking off time on my calendar in 30, 60, or 90min increments depending on the task. If in the middle of it, I get distracted, I look at the calendar to remind myself.
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by garrickvanburen 3mo ago
fantastic book.
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by garrickvanburen 3mo ago
The metaphor that changed my perspective came from the book, "The Power of Full Engagement", paraphrasing "you're behaving as if you're a world-class endurance athlete without an off season - stop it."
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by garrickvanburen 3mo ago
I worked a corporate job for 6yrs off an iPad Pro.
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by garrickvanburen 4mo ago
I agree, outside of the AI bubble, there's a lot of wait-and-see happening in the B2B world right now, I'd say we're currently 6-8 months into that 14 months.
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by garrickvanburen 4mo ago
My worst job interview ever - in-house creative team at telecom company in downtown Chicago. I walk into a darkened cubicle farm, down to the only lit corner office for a 'lunch interview'. Interviewer is sitting at their desk eat
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by garrickvanburen 4mo ago
I agree. We don't need a nondeterministic 10quadrillion vector model. We need an deterministic expert on our narrow business. Something small, that can be run on the 2026 version of the spare PC under the CTOs desk.
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by garrickvanburen 4mo ago
I think Dan Olson and Folding Ideas is doing a fantastic job of bringing thoughtful criticism to all kinds of modern media, most recently Mr. Beast Games. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyNtlmLB73-7gtlBz00XOQQ
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by garrickvanburen 4mo ago
Agreed. Also, as every media organization is free to make editorial decisions on both what they cover and how they cover it, left/right is often far too simplistic and vague to actually reverse engineer a media orgs bias.
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by garrickvanburen 4mo ago
I agree. Between: more efficient models - tuned for the task at hand, the ability to run those models in-house, or even at the edges, plus Google and Microsoft are well positioned to stay ambivalent as they’ve got lots of products to sell a
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by garrickvanburen 5mo ago
it's a great reminder that Uber wasn't a 2-sided marketplace to begin with, just an on-demand black car service, and Travis drove early on. The marketplace model came later, copying Lyft, more as a low-cost expansion strategy than
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by garrickvanburen 5mo ago
This. Stated another way, you need to start by either: fulfilling existing demand yourself....or being the demand yourself.
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by garrickvanburen 5mo ago
My default position: If an LLM can create it, we probably don't actually need it.
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by garrickvanburen 5mo ago
I agree, and a willingness to experience failure as soon as possible has always been a competitive advantage. If anything LLM chatbots & synthetic users will make the majority of founders evermore comfortable not testing reality.
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by garrickvanburen 5mo ago
https://dejabru.org - The Homebrew Competition Remembering Historic and Long-Forgotten Beer Styles

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