Robert Earl III

CEO - VDC & Linked Eats ; Helping restaurants digitize their business!

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Eric Schmidt on how he uses 5-year plans to predict if a startup can become a $100 billion company

“If you went to business school, you would’ve been taught: build a great product, organize a sales force, charge a fair price, make the customer happy.”

But, as the former CEO of Google explains, that strategy is insufficiently scalable in the Internet era:

“It’ll produce a reasonable business, but it’s not going to produce a huge business. It’s just too hard to hire all of those salespeople, work with every customer, and so forth. You have to have a more clever strategy.”

Eric continues:

“All of the really big companies have invented a new way to access information or a new way to do something [and didn’t require a large salesforce].”

Eric argues that lots of the startup ideas he hears are good, but not good enough. He tells these founders to do a plan over the next five years and map your growth rate. Then try to figure out what a more scalable strategy might be.

For example, if you’re building an app that you want to charge $10 for, Eric would ask:

“Why can’t you give the app away for free and then upsell the users?”

Another way to use a five-year plan to determine if your company can be a $100 billion company is to ask yourself what the big platforms will be five years from now and make sure your company is aligned with those platforms.

In this interview from 2016, he predicts Android, iOS, and machine learning are the platforms he’d want to be aligned with over the next five years.

Video source: @StartupGrind (2016)

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Ivan Zhao is the founder of Notion.

He just held a 1 hour keynote at Notion's first in-person conference.

What he announced today, will blow your mind.

Here are the key takeaways (+8 new launches):

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Meta just dropped its own AI text-to-video generator called 'MovieGen'

• AI-generated audio
• High definition clips
• Different aspect ratios
• Can edit existing footage or images

OpenAI's Sora has competition

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This idea changed my life (and may change yours)...

Parkinson's Law:

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@jsappington @michaelmiraflor 100% there are allot of laws around franchising and prices. It’s one of the biggest battle subjects for franchisee and franchisor.

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Spot on

From CEO of Snowflake

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@jodywinter @TKyle The more times they get you back the more food and drink you will order from them.