Eric Newcomer

And, and, and so, yeah, I think there's fatigue around the usage of the word, the, even the conversation.

Uh, I, I, we've never even like weighted that deeply into the conversation and I'd like to keep it that way.

Yeah, and then I'll say one more thing, and then I'll steal man taste labs.

So the main thing is when I think of taste, like product taste, I think of linear, right?

Linear has always been very opinionated.

Yep.

very quality driven.

They want to grow quickly because of how great the product is.

Like, you know, very, very design driven.

Like that is a company that I think generally has very high, you know, good taste, right?

The problem is when you have good taste and people pick up on it, they just start sort of just like blanket, like copying you, right?

So then there's an entire generation of companies that just look like linear, right?

From their website to the actual product.

And so taste is something that people curate themselves.

But then as soon as it's copied, then it's fundamentally not tasteful in my view.

Then it's not original.

I think taste has, you need some originality to be able to combine, do one plus one equals two.

And another example is like... Isn't 1 plus 1 equals 3?

Sorry, sorry, sorry.

1 plus 1 equals 3.