Introducing Perplexity Computer.
Computer unifies every current AI capability into one system.
It can research, design, code, deploy, and manage any project end-to-end.
This may be the most inspiring sentence I've ever read. Which is interesting because it's not phrased in the way things meant to be inspiring usually are.
I’m the CEO of @appsumo (a $100m business).
But the first 10 years of my career:
• Rejected by Google (2x)
• Fired by FB after 9 months
• Built 20+ startups that didn’t work out (Ouch!)
Here are 17 pieces of brutally honest career advice (I wish I knew earlier):
My best Straight Truth career advice is now available in detailed written form thanks to @lennysan in his Newsletter.
If you take the time to read just one thing from me this month, I recommend you read this.
Read here: https://t.co/oXtym8aRF5
I’m going to share with you all something I shared with someone on an advisory call this week:
Stop rewarding the academic theater of PM best practices.
I’m tired of folks thinking you put insights into a magical PM framework and a great business spits out the other end.
Peter Thiel had a very particular way of leading PayPal and the idea behind it is ridiculously interesting.
He believes there are classes of problems, depending on their difficulty:
A: The most difficult ones, and the ones that move the needle long-term.
B: Those that require effort, but are not determinant.
C: Low effort, kind of useful.
D: No effort, waste of time.
If you give a person problems A, B, C and D at the same time, you'll find trouble.
You will notice that they will solve problems by going up the ladder of difficulty.
Then the person does the problem D, C and the B one.
The reason for this is that people want to do productive things, but problems of type A are truly complex, so they have to think. And we are designed to go for the lowest-effort activity.
So time goes by and, as the person is solving problems D, C and perhaps working on B, D and C get refilled, generally.
The loop begins once again and they never get to solve problems of type A, which are the ones that matter and move the needle.
Peter 'solved' this by assigning people only one task. If you give a person only one problem, even if it is of type A, they will smash their head into the wall until they solve it.
If you give them options, the ladder of difficulty and our human design will never allow the company to move forward.