Mayank Jain

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[Mayank Jain @Mjmayank]

As building online communities becomes more and more critical for new startups, I wrote some thoughts on what Reddit does well: https://t.co/YCQF6ThhHo

[Mayank Jain @Mjmayank]

This answer makes no sense. A moat is something that maintains your business EVEN IF you’re not moving fast or hiring the best people. The example he gives about Apple isn’t their moat either. What he is right about is that hardly any young businesses have a moat. You have to develop it over time

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@ditzikow Are you Israeli?

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@gcockfoster I’m just thinking of all the spending enterprises already do on top of enterprise-grade email tooling (spam detection, phishing tests, etc) and then imagining that you barely trust the underlying infrastructure

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@anamitra Make something people need?

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@zan2434 @drewocarr isn't sam saying the opposite though? that we should stick with mainframes?

[Mayank Jain @Mjmayank]

@sriramkri we've done all different times. ours has been pretty good but obviously dog dependent. sometimes we take her out and hold her in our lap, and it's ~50/50 on if flight attendants allow that

you can also give them some doggie downers as well to keep them calmer if you want

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@JakeMedwell @bradlander Same! Hope you’re doing well

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@JakeMedwell @bradlander He lost to Zohran for mayor last cycle and won the most recent primary for the house. He’s basically guaranteed to win in November

[Mayank Jain @Mjmayank]

@JakeMedwell @bradlander He’s not in any elected position right now

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@ekaurghar @cremieuxrecueil Isn’t this guy a white supremacist

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@micsolana Are you against this just because Zohran is for it? The horses are generally gross, they drop dead in the middle of the park, and they aren’t well cared for. And now someone died. What is your argument for it?

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@ashmeetsidana Another good example of this is the TI-84 calculator. It’s been way less powerful than other devices you could get for decades, and that’s specifically why schools required them

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Why is everyone in Silicon Valley so braindead about what a moat is? If you actually want to educate yourself, I recommend reading “Understanding Michael Porter”

https://t.co/viYTOc5Jro

[Ansh Nanda @anshnanda]

Product isn’t a most

Taste isn’t a moat

Design isn’t a moat

Team isn’t a moat

Speed isn’t a moat

Marketing isn’t a moat

What moats are left?

[Mayank Jain @Mjmayank]

@anamitra @anshnanda Why are there no more moats? Nothing listed in the original tweet is a real moat. Moats are fundamental strategic advantages like network effects or proprietary data. The actual problem is that the only moats many businesses have is switching costs and that one has been destroyed

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@clairevo Vs a “wife” tells you that you’re out of something and need to go pick it up, before you even notice

[Mayank Jain @Mjmayank]

@clairevo I felt Sonia’s post was less about gendered adoption of AI, more about the stereotype that wives are proactive and husbands are reactive.

Typing a prompt is like sending your husband to the grocery store and having to explain what brand of everything you like and where it is

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@Nicolas_Colin @paulg Especially given your second example, don’t you think the maxim that degenerated is “do things that don’t scale” instead of “make something people want”?

The former always required a little bit of deception by pretending the behind the scenes was more robust than it actually was

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@sriramkri I know, I am commending you for saying it and wish other VCs would as well. Honestly think this might be necessary to earn back trust in AI. How can we trust these powerful systems built by an industry that is so clearly not aligned with the rest of society