Ben Horowitz

And

you know, AIs are really flexible on how they use user interfaces.

So that mode is gone.

So I think that's just like the first thing you have to recognize as a CEO that like, okay, that's going away.

So then what is it?

Where is your value?

What are you delivering?

And it turns out there are many things that are of value.

But if you're trying to

get good pricing through any of those things, you're gonna be under tremendous pressure.

Your price has to be a function of some other value that's much more distinct that you provide.

Although actually, Loud Cloud would be awesome.

Yeah, I think you do have to be honest with yourself on like what it is you have really.

Like there are companies that get...

thrown under the bus correctly and ones that don't.

And then if you take a lot of these ideas to their logical conclusion, then nothing is worth anything because there are no people at companies and if there are no people, who's going to buy your shitty software?

So da-da-da-da.

But it is more subtle and it just tends to take much longer than we think for some of these things to play out.

So then the question is, are you getting stronger in that meanwhile or are you degenerating?

So