Ben Geller

Leading marketing @parasail_io. Curious about how the mind works, building products that people love, and baking the perfect challah.

[Parasail @parasail_io]

Minimax M3 is live on Parasail, day zero. It’s the first open-weight model with frontier coding & agent capabilities, 1M context window, and native multimodal understanding.

DM us to spin up a dedicated endpoint and start testing!

[Parasail @parasail_io]

Most real-time AI traffic isn't steady. It's spiky and cyclical. Size a fixed GPU endpoint for the average and spikes blow past it; size it for the peak and you're paying for idle capacity.

That's the gap we built dedicated serverless to fill: a private endpoint with consistent latency that scales with your spikes, billed per token. You only pay for what you use. https://t.co/F1KzJ9YTPj

[Ben Geller @gbeng]

@youdotcom @xai Love to see this!

[Ben Geller @gbeng]

@philnottingham I would add MasterClass to this list—their FB ads using trailers of celebrity classes are engaging & make them stand out relative to their competitors (e.g., Lynda, Coursera, etc).

Another brand that has taken this to heart is InVision, producing the movie "Design Disruptors".

[Ben Geller @gbeng]

@randfish @joyajulz @Paul47Insights @sparktoro @caseyhen Incredible, can’t wait to try out the Beta of SparkToro. From the website’s description, it sounds like the tool of my dreams 😍

[Ben Geller @gbeng]

@randfish @joyajulz @Paul47Insights @sparktoro @caseyhen Just signed up on the site but didn’t see a link to the Beta, will it be coming over email later?

[Ben Geller @gbeng]

@adam_keesling I knew Blue Apron was a disaster when they sent cod for 10 straight meals in a row. The real question is—what kind of kickbacks are they getting from the cod industry? What role does Big Cod have to play in this? Where’s the whistleblower we need?

[Ben Geller @gbeng]

Great investigation by @kevincarey1 on the fraud behind the online degree programs at some of the most prestigious universities in the country including Harvard, Yale, and Georgetown. https://t.co/1DO24UsptO

[Ben Geller @gbeng]

@nireyal What are your three most influential books on product design? Curious to learn more about your research on internal and external triggers.

[Ben Geller @gbeng]

Did you know that people who are depressed check email more often? Designing an addictive product should account for the *internal* triggers that are causing the user to engage.
Great talk by @nireyal. #X4Summit

[Ben Geller @gbeng]

Think of your team, customer, and investor all as protagonists in a heroic journey, and identify ways to help them in their path.

-Great advice from @reidhoffman in the latest #mastersofscale episode

[Ben Geller @gbeng]

A successful marketplace is thick, uncongested, safe and simple:

Thick = Enough buyers and sellers transacting at a given time
Uncongested = Limit waiting times
Safe = Trusted by buyers and sellers to reveal accurate information
Simple = Easy to use

- "Who Gets What and Why"

[Ben Geller @gbeng]

Good summary of how to use "fake doors" or smoketesting for validating new product features from @tsharon

https://t.co/A3K5AfgyEi

[Ben Geller @gbeng]

@tsharon Just read through Validating Product Ideas, and loved the ideas of collecting a seven day diary from new users to identify challenges onboarding. Do you have any examples of final read-outs from diary collection?

[Ben Geller @gbeng]

“If a particular belief has some property that facilitated its own transmission, then that belief tends to be held by an increasing number of minds...some of our cultural wisdom looks like a super-replicating false belief. Consider money...” - @DanTGilbert

[Ben Geller @gbeng]

“When we try to mobilize action against the problem by demonstrating the prevalence of the problem, we may undermine the message”

[Dr. Robert Cialdini @RobertCialdini]

New #Gillette commercial is getting lots of attention: https://t.co/YPx8AbIQn0 We'd like to focus on the #normalizing of negative behavior. In this case, men's #behavior but also here in research done by Dr. #Cialdini in AZ national parks and theft: https://t.co/CdftpCIk8d

[Ben Geller @gbeng]

@Zola your password reset link is broken, please assist

[Ben Geller @gbeng]

@NYTCare just messaged you, having an issue with home delivery.

[Ben Geller @gbeng]

@Uber_Support Left my phone in an uber last night in Los Angeles. Need to contact driver to return my phone.

[Ben Geller @gbeng]

Great interview with @milk Virtual Reality Will Mirror Life Like Nothing Else Before (via @Pocket) https://t.co/0PLs5CslCB