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[Johnny @snowboardjohn]

@evisdrenova they pivoted to AI zombie’s

[Johnny @snowboardjohn]

@andruyeung @nytimes Pitch competitions are the worst -> as a founder I think this list is quite reasonable.

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@bytecrafter_1 @BrendanFoody This

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@signulll So I agree that society needs this idea. But to me it's an idea in which value accrues at the societal layer, and won't be captured by Neuman's startup beyond being first - and then every developer does it.

[Johnny @snowboardjohn]

@signulll What stops any developer from doing this? Network effect is purely local - literally within the building itself. Having building 1 doesn't make building 2 better at all. Nothing here scales.

[Johnny @snowboardjohn]

@rakyll I started out with a domain specific harness and if it works I will extract the runtime as well.

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@rakyll Great framing!

[Johnny @snowboardjohn]

@evisdrenova Parallel reads within each dir—thousands of blobs vs just 3 directories. But for repeated bulk reads, packfiles (what Git does): concat objects into one indexed file. Trades write simplicity for way faster sequential reads.

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@evisdrenova It’s all about “The Hoof GP”

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@AstasiaMyers 🐨

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@jasonlk Does it blind them, or does it simply reveal that most decision makers have no way to measure objective facts themselves and so they default to a herd heuristic.

[Johnny @snowboardjohn]

@jasonlk This is the fault of the VPS. Reps run a process that they are trained and measured on.

[Johnny @snowboardjohn]

@jasonlk Simple product in which user = buyer: do outbound. Complex product with distributed buying decision makers and unclear path: don’t do outbound.

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@evisdrenova They’re a niche enterprise software vendor with ~30 customers selling to oil companies and utilities. The ‘AI platform’ branding is aspirational.

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@evisdrenova They’ve rebranded 3 times in 15 years (C3 Energy → C3 IoT → C3 AI) chasing whatever’s hot, have only $300M revenue after 15+ years, and one customer is 35% of revenue.

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@evisdrenova ^^ a good example of a b2b play that expands its market without requiring major rework

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@evisdrenova “Rubicon Project will start solving the sharp pain point of optimizing ad networks for publishers and will leverage this position to be the trusted platform to help monetize all inventory for a publisher – the Control HQ for all revenue for web publishers”.

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@_mattwelter You’re a founder - that’s what went wrong - easy! (I’m also a founder)