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Don’t forget, it’s the CEO’s job to choose whether or not to have you steer towards the iceberg. If he chooses to drive hard and fast right into it, maybe it was meant to be.
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I mean I pay for several already. If I had to, I guess I'd pay $100/month for ChatGPT. But I also don't see how these things don't keep getting cheaper. What recent technology has gotten more expensive over time?
> What recent technology has gotten more expensive over time? Cloud. And AI is not very different from the fundamentals of Cloud; there's vendor lock-in, meaning the vendors can raise prices at will, representing a liability to whoever tries to depend on them.
There’s short-term increases sure but there’s no doubt in my mind that $100 in cloud today gets you much more than $100 in cloud 10 years ago. And the $100 is worth less today!
Just put some of your normal features behind a button with a sparkles emoji on it. No one will know.
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> At a smart business, you work for your customers. Well, then you're bound to the amount of money customers can give you. It's usually less than a VC partner with a god complex can give you.
> Well, then you're bound to the amount of money customers can give you. You’re _always_ bound by what the customer is willing to pay. Speaking more expansively, it’s just a proxy for whether the market will bear your prices/wants your product, and whether you are in the right place and/or positioning your product correctly. VCs just add a temporary runway so you don’t have to be as concerned about that.
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Can you name one tech company of note that hasn’t gone that route? BaseCamp and who else?
Microsoft is listed often as example. Dell as well. Apple startet without VCs, but added one a bit later.
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They will remain but when they have to charge enough profit to cover the cost of generating the responses, how many people will actually pay for it? Last time I saw 97% of OpenAI usage was free customers. No way to force the 3% to pay for their usage.
I mean I pay for several already. If I had to, I guess I'd pay $100/month for ChatGPT. But I also don't see how these things don't keep getting cheaper. What recent technology has gotten more expensive over time?
From what I've seen, anyone giving you definitive answers is blowing smoke. I've seen teams go for AI, do it well, and succeed. I've also seen teams go for AI, f it up, and all get fired as the company shuts down. The question is whether the key value of your product can benefit from the strengths of AI? If not, don't go there. If so, you then need to determine if your team can actually deliver an AI-driven vision th…
From what I've seen, anyone giving you definitive answers is blowing smoke. I've seen teams go for AI, do it well, and succeed. I've also seen teams go for AI, f it up, and all get fired as the company shuts down. The question is whether the key value of your product can benefit from the strengths of AI? If not, don't go there. If so, you then need to determine if your team can actually deliver an AI-driven vision th…
This causes too many company executives to think 'if we go all in on [latest trend] then the same thing will happen to us'. Very little thought is given to whether the latest thing is a good fit for what you are building.
When it is a good fit, things can really work to your advantage. When it is not, it can just be a monkey on your back.