Pete (aka BFG)
@bfg
focus on humans-first · founder @lab2094 · /buildbetter newsletter&podcast · systems&frameworks for founders to grow businesses · also see /artistspotlight
People in tech bubble and AI specifically
tend to think that
BUILD YOUR OWN TOOL(s)
“is gonna kill every SaaS” and it will simply transform everything 🤪
And one thing I can tell you after working on “flexible tools” for PKM and TKM — only about 15% of people, founders and companies actually care and want this.
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It’s very funny and sad at the same time … every slowing startup or SMB wants to hire “experienced” person to lead their growth 🚨
… must be someone who has scaled things to the moon, etc.
Absolutely forgetting that such people don’t want to work at companies that are not growing and have undifferentiated products.
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incentives need to be permissionless 💪
Some folks already knew about the impending end of IPFS corporate dev teams – Protocol Labs somewhat secretly a few years ago, and more loudly in the past year no longer investing in infrastructure teams was a strong signal for this, but also the handoff of libp2p was yet another.
This now leaves the three main backer
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Been thinking more about enterprise AI deployments recently, because that’s where the change will come into the world 🌎
Most enterprise AI efforts stall in the “last mile”
- messy legacy systems,
- data access,
- governance constraints,
- regulatory requirements,
- language/cultural nuance,
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