Eric Liang
@eskimoerico
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0-1 ai social products (18M downloads in Asia) | previously product @peacock, @twitter
Tokyo-to, Japan
Joined July 2017
Scott’s “skill stacking” essay completely changed my perspective on work
Scott Adams is on my Mount Rushmore of people that shaped my life. “The day you became a better writer” is still the best thing I’ve read on writing. His concept of Skill Stacks probably added on billions to global GDP. He convinced me and thousands of other people to try
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personalization effects are the new network effects
There are very few moats in AI. But like with human relationships, you will stick with the systems that know you best Memory and context have gravity. State is a moat.
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Consumer AI startups are going to have to relearn a bunch of things
Keith Rabois explains that the key to LinkedIn’s success was investing 80% of resources in virality Keith was employee number 20 at LinkedIn, and when he left almost three years later, they were at employee 59: “People forget that it took two years to get to a million users,
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@nikitabier “People don’t want to talk to computers, they want to talk through computers.”
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An interesting take from Sam. I think our great expansion is over. We’ve grown from 1M people connected to an internet 30 years ago to 4B right now. Now that it is less about expansion, tech innovation is more about spending time better. Replacing one activity for another
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Momentum growth is a powerful feeling, but it can also go away quickly. I have been surprised how many things with seemingly unstoppable momentum have slowed to a crawl this past year. Zooming out, growth without deep durable adoption and habits doesn’t count.
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You need 2 types of people to keep early-stage startups from stagnating: - someone who’ll shamelessly sell the product before it’s fully ready to be sold - someone who’s embarrassed by this and will push to improve the product faster
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In our endless chase of objectivity & numbers in product work, it is quite easy to miss that almost every product we use & love was created due to a subjective insight followed by a creative leap by one person (or a tiny team), and then followed by even more creative execution.
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My rule for making decisions in life: It's either a hell yes, or it's a no.
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There are huge skill differences between A) understanding customer pain, and B) deciding if your product should even solve that pain, and if Yes, C) how to solve it in a way that creates differentiation A is easiest of the 3 B should often be No C is where fortunes are made
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After 10 years of building consumer social apps, I've decided to start exploring new areas. Building these products is an unforgiving grind—but I learned a lot along the way. For those embarking on this path, here's everything you need to know: TIME FOR A THREAD 👇
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My favorite take on nfts so far.
NFTs = New Friendship Technology
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NFT collections would do well to learn from Legos (the toy bricks) 🧱 Here’s why:
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Trying to make a consumer product successful without an existing distribution advantage can instill more professional humility in a product person than anything else I know.
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