My conversation with Noah Shinn (@noahrshinn), founder of Instinct.
Noah is building a personal AI assistant. It's still invite only, has spent nothing on marketing, and is growing roughly 10% A DAY.
This is his first long conversation about the company.
We discuss:
- Why Instinct doesn't have an app
- Buying compute months ahead of exponential demand
- How users learn to trust it with a credit card
- Safety and security
- Agents coordinating with other people's agents
- Instinct's business model
- Apps built on consumer inertia
- and more
Enjoy!
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
4:11 What people are using AI agents for
15:07 Rethinking travel, reservations, and the internet
22:43 Trust, privacy, and personal data
27:50 The business model behind Instinct
38:04 How existing businesses will adapt
47:55 Designing a personal assistant people love
53:15 Growth, compute, and competing with Big Tech
1:11:44 Whatโs next for Instinct and personal AI
Some of our loudest laughs came from his dialogues, some of our deepest thoughts from his screenplays.With humor as his weapon, Sreenivasan held up a mirror to society fearless, honest, unforgettable.
Malayalam cinema lost one of it's biggest legends. #RIPLegend#RIPSreenivasan
Short videos will kill long videos.
Quick commerce will kill Slow commerce.
Memes will kill articles.
Chats will kill emails.
AI tools will kill outsourcing.
while we're on the topic of incredible Indian / Malayalam cinema, "Bramayugam" by Mammootty is also worthy of mention! Let's shine a light on the diverse talent and storytelling prowess of the Malayalam film industry! #Oscars@mammukka#Bramayugam#Aadujeevitham
Poonam Pandey situation is a pretty good insight into the fact that a lot of news media is essentially just retweeting not reporting. Sheโs alive, journalism thoughโฆ.
Letโs go back to 1999.
After selling his first companyโฆ
โฆMusk set out to disrupt banking.
And the X identity was born.
But its time as a standalone brand would be short-lived.
Instead, X became part of another brand.
Nvidia just added $219B in market cap overnight.
That's more than PayPal, Spotify, and Airbnb combined.
And Nvidia has:
No new AI product.
No new graphics card.
No new senior management.
What's going on? ๐ค ๐