Alex Mehr
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first heard May 2017
last heard 21 Oct
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But they also had to have great execution skill.
The importance of execution skill has dropped a little bit.
It requires less capital.
It requires less time.
It requires less resources, people.
And you can have more ideas and lack a little bit
in the sense of resources, but it's still win.
So whatever history has rewarded idea machines, it's going to be even more.
And one of the things that I heard like common entrepreneurship advice is that do one thing and do it right.
That common, the worst pieces of advice are the ones that sound good but are not true, okay?
So I tell people this.
I'm like, look, that is designed for people who don't have great execution skill and they could not execute many, many ideas, so they had to spend a lot of time executing on one idea.
In those scenarios, it made sense.
With AI, that advice is actually not that good.
The correct advice is to revert
to become the Thomas Edison, Elon Musk, you know, Picasso, you pick, you know, Vanderbilt, like all these great Henry Ford, like all these great industrialists of our generation, you read their biography, they're like idea machines, okay?
So I'm like, okay, go to that and use AI, lean on AI for execution.
So my answer is...
Just like I do, and I don't say anything that I don't do myself.
So when we started the company, Famous Labs, I didn't know exactly what it was going to build.
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