Businesses can no longer choose between optimizing for stability and optimizing for speed.
“As for Loopt’s failure, he chalked it up to his misreading of how people would use digital technology. “We had the optimistic view that location would be all-important,” he told the magazine. “The pessimistic view was that people would lie on their couches and just consume content—and that is what happened. I learned you can’t make humans do something they don’t want to do.”
― The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future
― The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future
“There was nothing better than walking into a dark room with a projector flickering”
― Who Is Michael Ovitz?
― Who Is Michael Ovitz?
“We had to build a critical mass of clients so we could reverse the power curve from the buyers (the studios) to the sellers (us)”
― Who Is Michael Ovitz?
― Who Is Michael Ovitz?
“So I called his son”
― Who Is Michael Ovitz?
― Who Is Michael Ovitz?
“It is incredibly unproductive to try and argue with someone else’s vision. You might think they’re not doing it the right way. You might think they’re dishonest. Who knows—maybe you’re right, maybe you’re not. But what you should do is take some people you trust and go off together and make your vision happen.”
― The Scaling Curve: Dario Amodei, Anthropic, and the Race to Build and Survive Superintelligence
― The Scaling Curve: Dario Amodei, Anthropic, and the Race to Build and Survive Superintelligence
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