Matthew O'Rourke

Tweets about product and startups mostly. Have worked as a PM in many startups like @bandsintown and @wearestudio

[Matthew O'Rourke @mtorourk]

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I guess the same word every time and it finally paid off.

[Matthew O'Rourke @mtorourk]

I like to thank ChatGPT when I use it, for two reasons. 1 - it just feels polite. 2 - when the AI’s take over maybe they will remember that I was nice to them.

[Marc Randolph @marcrandolph]

In 2000, at the depth of the dot com crash, Reed Hastings and I tried to sell Netflix to Blockbuster for $50 million dollars. They laughed us out of the room.

Today, the company they could have bought for $50 million has a market cap north of $150 billion. And the company that once had 9,000 stores, is down to a single one.

But what lesson to take from this?

That it’s possible for a handful of people, with no prior experience in the video business, to take down a 6 billion dollar category leading company? Sure.

But I think the more important lesson - a lesson that Blockbuster learned too late - is simply this:

If you are unwilling to disrupt yourself, there will always be someone willing to disrupt your business for you.

[Sam Altman @sama]

here is GPT-4, our most capable and aligned model yet. it is available today in our API (with a waitlist) and in ChatGPT+.

https://t.co/2ZFC36xqAJ

it is still flawed, still limited, and it still seems more impressive on first use than it does after you spend more time with it.

[Matthew O'Rourke @mtorourk]

@waronweakness I think a lot of people don’t see another viable option. It’s hard to build up enough runway or to start something profitable enough while working full time.

[Matthew O'Rourke @mtorourk]

There’s something so satisfying about debugging something and having it actually work.

[Matthew O'Rourke @mtorourk]

@ischafer Disney too. I think they’ve found that there’s limitations to the binge model. There is something fun about the constraint of having to wait for it to drop, building the anticipation is rewarding.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Oh no.

[Matthew O'Rourke @mtorourk]

@pokecoder Just open https://t.co/eokuEk5Ns8 and mash keys as fast as you can lol. It’s been a personal fave for like a decade.

[Danny Thompson @DThompsonDev]

I worked with a 22 year old that learned to code.

I was 30 when I started to learn to code.

My friend was 49 when he made the transition to tech.

I worked with a PHENOMENAL woman who was 60 when she got her job as a frontend developer!

You absolutely got this!💪🏽

[Ali Abouelatta @abouelatta_ali]

This is one of the 🤯🤯🤯 experiments we ran on the Duolingo Retention team :

[Matthew O'Rourke @mtorourk]

@elonmusk I think the better question is, what do you love about Twitter and how can it be even better at that? I love seeing experts break down important topics in real time. It’s tremendously valuable. I could do with more of that and less spammy content.

[Matthew O'Rourke @mtorourk]

@lennysan I got a Wusthof chef’s knife on sale for more than half off last year during a sale at William’s Sonoma and it’s so much nicer than the other knives I have. Using it to cut things like tomatoes is oddly satisfying because it works so well.

[Nichole Wischoff @NWischoff]

If you have a safe place to live, food on the table and someone that loves you, you have it all. Easy to forget.

[Matt Schnuck @mattschnuck]

A famous experiment exposed the No. 1 killer of high-performing teams.

Here it is (and how you overcome it):

[Matthew O'Rourke @mtorourk]

@Codie_Sanchez The @BingingWBabish media empire seems pretty lean and profitable.

[Matthew O'Rourke @mtorourk]

With the success of newer apps like BeReal I could see this working if they differentiate well.

[Matthew O'Rourke @mtorourk]

Someone should start a competing social network with the laid off Twitter employees. Huge concentration of people with the right skills.

[Matthew O'Rourke @mtorourk]

What if they got together and remade a better version of Twitter, make it employee owned and try to address some of the core flaws.