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Nice to see more from Amazon in this space. I had the chance to see a demo a few weeks ago and it seemed impressive. Now to actually do the challenging, and build something useful …

I am hoping that the extra time will mean that they get Custom GPTs to work even better.

I thought the decision was made that Sam, Greg, etc are going to Microsoft. Isn't that what was part of Satya Nadella's announcement.

The interesting question is that now that things are a little bit settled what should we expect. Some thoughts that seem obvious: - OpenAI to slow down progress with newer models a…

The Assistants API is really cool. Together with the retrieval feature, it makes me wonder how many companies OpenAI killed by creating it.

Rethinking how tech can make learning better! I think how we teach is stuck in the stone-ages, even though we as a society have learnt so much more of what works. I have worked in …

I think this is a little different for those wanting to build a VC-backed business vs a bootstrapped business. If you are getting investors, managing them is a full-time job - so y…

Overcoming this 'mistake' is very hard. I have faced it many times. As long as I am an engineer on something it is never good-enough for me. I am now trying a different approach th…

Violet implements the most common voice UX Patterns and makes using them be easier. The typical enterprise web app can be said to consist of just navigation (i.e. menus, breadcrumb…

Violet takes inspiration from HTML, bootstrap, Angular/React/Vue to make build Voice Apps as easy as web pages. I created it because I have needed to create 12+ Voice projects a ye…

There code is open source: https://github.com/snipsco Though there are about 100 repositories there. I am not sure if it is easy to put it all together.

I was just at a startup showcase and a common theme in many healthy startups was how much of a stress it put on the relationships of the founders. I feel like we need more of a con…

I am the author - I did 10% of this for my job, but 90% of it has been a nights & weekends activity. I would love feedback. And feel free to ask me anything.

Can you elaborate on conversations? (I have seen a lot written about good books on this topic.)

I think that unfortunately, the answer to this question is: it depends! My $0.02 is that it depends really on the market size (based on your startups focus) and its growth. If you …

The challenges of starting a company are different form the challenges of running/growing a $25 million dollar company. That being said, you will still learn a lot from shadowing h…

While I also like to consider myself above pricing, it is worth noting that innovation with pricing is perhaps the most important part in building a great business. Arguably Google…