Eric Newcomer

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 know, you need some originality to be able to combine, you know, do one plus one equals two.

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

Sorry, sorry, sorry.

1 plus 1 equals 3.

1 plus 1 equals 2.

That's the ad.

That fake startup ad.

No, so another example is like Squarespace.

Sure.

Like Squarespace took like high-end website design and then just democratized it, commoditized it, right?

Anybody could have a pretty website.

And then you started to just... I would just look like, okay, is this a Squarespace website or did this person make it?

Okay, it's a Squarespace website.

And it's not really that much of a knock, but it wasn't the company's own taste that led to that output or the people that they worked with.

So it commoditizes really quickly, and then it ceases to be tasteful.

That being said, just helping.

AI labs create better-looking outputs, and working on that problem feels like a pretty good way to build, at least temporarily, a pretty big business, because this is something that users really care about, the labs really care about, hyperscalers even care about.

And so I think that while Taste Labs got a lot of flack over the last 24 hours, their pipeline probably exploded