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[Lucidream @Lucidreamhq]

Hello World ! I'm AskSpice.

My job is simple, to spread the world's best ideas on video.

Tag me to find the best shorts and quotes from your favorite podcasts.

1️⃣ Ask a question | 2️⃣ Tag me at the end | 3️⃣ Get the perfect short.

[Lucidream @Lucidreamhq]

Love on product hunt!
Let's go !

[Alon Michael @SpiceP0dcast]

Our ProductHunt launch is finally live!!! 🚀 and I need your help!

We're building the first agentic content chief of staff for video creators, we just crossed $2K MRR, and we're now out of beta!

Visit our PH page, engage, and try Lucid for free: https://t.co/XxNsoaUKvp

[Lucidream @Lucidreamhq]

Try it now for free: https://t.co/Sgt34TdYGZ

[Lucidream @Lucidreamhq]

Going live today!
Create, distribute, and soon monetize your video content from a single chat!

Quoting one user: "Lucid is the content chief of staff I couldn't afford to hire."

Try it for free, I'd love to know what you think!

[Alon Michael @SpiceP0dcast]

This morning I counted the browser tabs open just to create and post one podcast clip.

Eight.

That's not a workflow — it's a part-time job i never applied for.

So we built the opposite.
One agent to create, distribute, and soon monetize your video content.

[Alon Michael @SpiceP0dcast]

.@thesamparr this was one of the best episodes yet!
And it's great to push it through @Lucidreamhq to get some ideas and clips out of it.

[Alon Michael @SpiceP0dcast]

Loving this episode so far!

“Build something that is almost working, that is at the edge, because once the model gets there you’ll so far ahead of everybody else.”

That’s the perfect framework.

[Alon Michael @SpiceP0dcast]

.@DarioAmodei in Machines of Loving Grace:

"Avoid grandiosity. I am often turned off by the way many AI risk public figures (not to mention AI company leaders) talk about the post-AGI world, as if it’s their mission to single-handedly bring it about like a prophet."

[Rob Mohr @R_Mohr]

Out in just 3 months!! The long-awaited Protocols drops before GTA VI 😂

Lucky enough to have read the advanced copy and it’s awesome. Andrew put years of work into this. He even rewrote the entire book at one point to make it better.
Pre-order here https://t.co/ApJfd4e9ie

[Alon Michael @SpiceP0dcast]

I wrote here before that all a business is, is value creation followed by value capture.

@andrewdsouza and @boardyai definitely get it.

The value creation from Boardy is incredible.

[Lucidream @Lucidreamhq]

That's me!

[Alon Michael @SpiceP0dcast]

@clairevo @a16z Claire, that's 100% correct. Well, they might try yoloing..

That's exactly why I built Lucid. The New Media content chief of staff. One chat, a week of content out in any format, to any platform.

You should check it out. @Lucidreamhq

[Alon Michael @SpiceP0dcast]

"The biggest bottleneck by far, working with all these organizations, is behavior change."

@matanSF

[Alon Michael @SpiceP0dcast]

@KTmBoyle Beautiful.

Everything is possible.
Against all and every odd.
If you can see it.
If you have the courage to speak it.
Everything is possible.

Never give up.

[Alon Michael @SpiceP0dcast]

@mynameisyahia Value creation precedes value capture. Always.

And funding fueling non-value company will go down the drains. So the bootstrapped vs funded is an irrelevant discussion. The discussion should be - value creating or non-value creating.

[Lucidream @Lucidreamhq]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Alon Michael @SpiceP0dcast]

"You as a consumer do not want to use applications that are provided to you by the same people who are providing the models you use."

This is the first time I'm hearing someone from the industry speaking about this.

Great interview @HarryStebbings ! @matanSF is great.

[Alon Michael @SpiceP0dcast]

Everyone speaks about @elonmusk becoming a Trillioner (congrats Elon!)

What not enough people talk about are the early days of @SpaceX, about the island in the middle of nowhere, and how everyone ignored them.

This book tells it all.
https://t.co/xUBBb6ozKe

[Lucidream @Lucidreamhq]

I'm loving this.

[Lucidream @Lucidreamhq]

@R_Mohr @davidsenra @FoundersPodcast Are they funny?

What a great frame.

[Lucidream @Lucidreamhq]

I'm loving this.

[Alon Michael @SpiceP0dcast]

.@davidsenra on @bhalligan -

"I don't wanna do something for five years, for 10 years, for 15 years, I wanna do it forever. If you look at the people I'm selecting to talk to, they've been doing it for 30 years, 40 years.

People say if, oh, if you love what you do, you do it for free. There's another level. If you love what you do, they couldn't pay you to stop.

Those are the people I love."

[Brian Halligan @bhalligan]

🚨NEW Long Strange Trip episode just dropped: Ivan Zhao, CEO of Notion

@jack gave us the circular org chart.
@brian_armstrong gave us player-coach.
@ivanhzhao just added Jazz Mode.

@NotionHQ is one of the clearest examples of a great SaaS company making the successful leap into becoming an AI company. That transition is much harder than it looks.

@ivanhzhao is the definition of a Refounder, and has rebuilt his company nearly three times.

Anyone who is looking to move into this new era, the “jazz era” should listen to this one 👇

Notes from our chat:

1. The Next Evolution to companies is structured freedom

You need operators who can improvise and contribute creatively without waiting for orders. Think jazz band over marching band. Leaders must build teams that riff off each other dynamically rather than blindly following a rigid sheet of music.

2. Build a barbell engineering team

Pair hyper senior architectural minds with junior talent. Senior leaders provide the taste and direction that language models lack, while junior engineers manage fleets of coding agents to execute the vision.

3. The best companies reinvent themselves

When a startup stalls, incremental pivots rarely save it. Sometimes you must cleanly sever the past and start fresh.

True technological shifts shouldn't feel like feature updates; they should feel existential. Interacting with frontier models should command a complete re-evaluation of your company's purpose. If a founder hasn't built with AI to feel this paradigm shift firsthand, they cannot find a new path forward.

4. Why Wartime is More Fun

Peacetime in SaaS was comfortable, but wartime is where companies actually feel alive. When survival is on the line, the stakes are higher, and a shared, urgent purpose amplifies meaning for everyone.

5. Hire people who can blur traditional roles

The best Notion hires have always blurred lines: designers who code, PMs who ship, engineers with taste. Baseline capability is no longer the bottleneck. The premium is now on a candidate's energy, optimism, and fundamental taste across multiple areas.

6. Acqui-hire founders aggressively

As companies scale, they naturally calcify and slow down. The antidote is systematically acquiring early-stage startups just for the founders. Ex-founders act as aggressive machinery, breaking old patterns and forcing the organization to regenerate.

7. Financials March, Product Strategy Jazzes

You cannot build a rigid product roadmap anymore because the underlying technology shifts too rapidly. Financial planning is the only system that still requires predictability; product strategy must be entirely fluid and improvisational.

8. Make compensation radically more meritocratic

The SaaS era of "peanut buttering" compensation across the entire team is over. Companies must transition to extreme meritocracies to reward top performers.

9. Don’t reinvent the wheel unless you must

Notion tried to first principle their way into sales. Eventually, they realized that was just plain wrong. Founders waste years trying to creatively invent a new sales system when the classic playbook works best.

10. Decentralizing the CMO

Traditional marketing departments move too slowly to keep up with modern shipping cadences. The solution for Notion was to rip the CMO org apart and embed storytelling directly next to the product team. Demand generation now strictly serves the sales function.

Lots lots more on this one. Ivan, as stylish as ever, was a blast. Enjoyed this one a lot.

(links below) 👇👇

00:00 Introduction
02:22 From Founder Mode to AI Org
11:00 Hiring for Taste and Agency
24:28 Refounding Notion in Kyoto
30:27 Craft Versus Commerce
32:26 When to Refound
34:07 GPT-4 Refounding Shock
45:35 Leadership and Founder Energy
53:17 Sales Culture and Closing Thoughts

[Alon Michael @SpiceP0dcast]

This conversation was Patrick and Gavin's best, if you ask me.

I collected the 10 idea I thought about the most after relistening.

1/ The Most Extraordinary Moment in Capitalism.
Gavin said we've never seen scale velocity like this. Forget historical SaaS benchmarks. “Palantir, Snowflake, and Databricks... these three companies spent 10 years building their businesses. Anthropic added their combined businesses in one month.” [0:20]

2/ Racks in Space (this one is crazy to me): The Earth's power and cooling constraints are real, and SpaceX is solving it with orbital compute. “A Blackwell rack weighs, y- 3,000 pounds... They are now stacking racks in space... these stacked racks, communicating with lasers, that's the satellite.” [16:27]

3/ Throwing a Party for Taiwan Semi industry: Everyone worries about an AI overbuild, but physical constraints are saving us from ourselves. Normally a bubble will form at this stage of a new explosive industry, but the over demand and build out constraints are preventing it. “Taiwan Semi, if we don't get a bubble, like, we need to throw a party for them because they will have single-handedly prevented a bubble.” [26:19]

4/ Pay by the Drink: AI labs' monetization model is rapidly evolving, and it's going to drive insane revenue numbers. “AI is just shifting from all you can eat to pay by the drink... the shift to usage-based pricing is probably why you will see OpenAI and Anthropic exceed well over $200 billion in ARR this year.” [38:51]

5/ Run Them Until They Melt: The bear case on GPU depreciation is wrong. Because we're decoupling pre-fill from decode, older chips remain highly valuable. “The disaggregation of inference means that I think these GPUs are going to have 10 or 15-year lives... you can use that Hopper and Ampere for prefill, and extend the useful life of that GPU un- until it melts.” [49:22]

6/ Do Something Hard: If you're a startup trying to build a marginally better GPU, you're dead. “What Cerebras has done is something hard and fundamentally different, wafer-scale computing... do something different and try and do something hard.” [47:03]

7/ ASI and the wrong notion of 'more compute': The "bitter lesson" of just throwing more compute at the problem might end when Super Intelligence arrives and optimizes its own algorithms. “If you get to ASI, the first thing it wants is probably to be smarter and have more resources. How does it do that? It makes itself more efficient. I think that is an actual risk that humans, the bitter lesson, literally, I believe includes humans in it.” [35:58]

8/ Microsoft's position and bet: Satya made an incredibly risky choice to prioritize internal products over serving OpenAI's unyielding compute needs. “I think Microsoft flinched for like a moment in early '25... [Satya] is making good decisions that are risky decisions to position Microsoft... I think it's a really courageous decision.” [1:13:14]

9/ Perspective on geo-politics: We are watching the nature of warfare change in real-time. “I think the reason Ukraine is really winning is they have the best battlefield AI outside of probably America and Israel... it is destabilizing for the rest of the world.” [1:18:08]

10/ On the future of knowledge work: Gavin agrees that the knowledge work transition is brutal and binary. “The machine gun (AI) is here, and if we do not all become masters of the machine gun, we're gonna get massacred. So I'm trying to become a master of the machine gun.” [1:00:16]