Co-founder, CEO Ndea – an intelligence science lab Co-founder, Board ARC Prize Foundation – a north star for AGI Co-founder, Board Zapier – automation for everyone Invested: Braintrust , Limitless , Julius , Cognition , Cartesia , After Thought , Climatix , New Theory , CTGT , Inception Labs , Sepal , Agemo Grew up in St. Louis, now SF Bay Area Email me: mikeknoop@gmail.com Twitter: @mikeknoop…
Is it possible to do Great Work as a non CEO/CTO co-founder? The temptation to be someone else is greatest for the young. – Paul Graham Before starting Zapier, I read PG's other essay Keep Your Identity Small and now think there is an important connection: to do great work as a co-founder you must keep your identity small. Writing about identity is tough without personal example, bear with me. I…
Wow, this was one of the most thrilling weeks in tech. It feels like a whole year of AI progress happened all last week (not to mention a banking crisis + resolution ). GPT-4 released LLaMa running on consumer hardware Claude released Multi-model nat.dev playground released Google AI showcase GPT-4 I've used a version of GPT-4 (as did many, if you had access to the New Bing ). Compared to…
This is intended to be a useful knowledge base for anyone building new things, particularly new products. Assume you are building a new software product from zero. By definition, new product ideas don't have “product/market fit”. This is, in my opinion, the canonical definition of product/market fit . The critical things to focus on first are: What is the shortest path to P/M fit? What is the…