My friend Adam Wathan has a new podcast called Adam's Morning Walk, and in the last episode he talked about how he's thinking about building with AI:

I was listening to this episode last night and it brought up all sorts of thoughts for me. So I opened up telegram and sent him a series of (slightly inebriated) voice memos.

I'm publishing these here in case they spark some thoughts/ideas for you as well.

F-stop example

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Successful startups don't create demand. They position themselves in the path of existing demand.

In a good market, customers provide their own motivation.

Your job isn't to create customer motivation; it's to find where it already exists and then build something that satisfies it.

Timestamps:

00:00 I was listening to the Offsite podcast.
00:20 What does it take for a customer to take out their credit card?
00:46 How high is the customer's desire for the product?
01:23 When will a customer buy even when there's friction?
01:59 The pitfalls of optimizing a product when there's no demand
02:45 A framework for assessing Market Demand
03:21 Conclusion

Watch the whole episode of Jordan's conversation with Ruben.

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There's a strange relationship between the effort you put into something and the outcome you get out of it.

You could invest thousands of hours in a project, only to get a tepid response to what you've made.

Read the blog post: "The effort-outcome asymmetry"

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