$50k invested in Segment after Demo Day yielded about $12.4m. You had to be pretty bold to invest after Demo Day, though, because then they were making technology to warn lecturers when students could no longer follow them.

In many different fields, outsiders overestimate the value of ideas and underestimate the difficulties of execution. So it's probably a good strategy for learning about any new field to ask "why is execution harder than it seems to outsiders?"

I listened to the leaked recording of the Clubhouse conversation among tech founders/VCs. @balajis makes some important points about media there. Here's my summary.

AI tools will eliminate most of the tedious work in most jobs (design, data science, programming, professional emailing, etc.) Prediction: it will be very surprising how much more productive people are when they have never have to break rhythm and slow down for a tedious task.

This is not necessarily true for all businesses, but it's true for startups, because for a startup (a) usually implies depending on investors, and investors are not dependable right now.

If your startup's market has shrunk and you're wondering if you should (a) wait for it to come back or (b) adjust yourself to its current size, the answer is probably (b).

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