Kith CEO @RonnieFieg says social media algorithms have flattened taste:
“Everyone now wants the same thing. You used to be forced to have your own opinion.”
His influence came from riding across Queens, watching completely different cultures get on the train, and walking into stores before the internet had already told everyone what to like.
“Every other stop would be a different culture hopping on the train.”
“What I got to see became my world. That was my influence. I got to see so many different styles, people dressed in so many different ways, and that’s when the sense of individuality was at an all-time high.”
“Before you were influenced by your algorithm, which now, a lot of people want the same things because it’s based off what they see.”
“Back then, when you went shopping, you were forced to have an opinion because you wouldn’t have seen everything.”
“Today, people will walk into a store and know about all the products before they walk in. They’ve already seen someone wearing it, a photo of it, a lookbook of it, a campaign of it.”
“Back then you were just forced to have your own opinion.”
Very few things are certain in life but this one of them:
If you can sell you'll never be broke.
Jordan Belfort (the guy from Wolf of Wall Street) went to prison, lost everything, and came out with felony convictions.
He's probably richer now than he was before.
You're not doing anything interesting if everyone agrees or you are well liked/not being laughed at
Get used to it
Also people are on edge again (not sure why) so do not share your wins publicly. Just creates resentment
A lot of software will become cheap and free. Especially single user point solutions.
E.g., we replaced a $4000/yr email marketing tool with one I created on Replit in < 1 hour because the old tool was stale with no AI or integrations. What I built is 10x better and also saves us hours a week now.
But, a lot of software is too complex for now to go anywhere. Salesforce has become more integral to our AI Agent stack than before. It’s become our hub and our 20+ AI Agents all run on it.
It’s hard to predict right now.
What I do think will soon happen is your AI Agents will build simpler apps on their own, essentially invisibly, and just share the outputs and results with you. You won’t even know some software has even been built for you. Your Agents will handle it effortlessly and invisibly. You won’t even know they’ve build apps for you.
E.g., we build an AI Parking App distribution app for 5,000 parking pass apps at SaaStr AI Annual this year inside of 10K, our AI VP Marketing. It saved us weeks of work. It’s great. But by next year, I think 10K might just automously build it on its own and we might not even realize it was an app 10K built, tested and deployed.
It would just tell us the problem was … solved.
ServiceTitan just cut off Podium. A thousand joint customers.
Podium crossed $100M in agent revenue. Then the agents became the system of record.
"It could schedule the meeting. It could track when the HVAC comes to fix your house," says Jason Lemkin.