Founder of Gamma ($100 ARR AI-powered slide deck software, started in 2020 now valued at $2 billion)

• Insight that led to founding the company: “On Google slides I was spending 80% of time on the look and feeling, 20% of time on content. It should be backwards.” Paul Graham commented “surely the thing that the slide deck is describing is more valuable than the slide itself.” 
• Emphasized the importance of making the first 30 seconds of the product incredible - was the key factor leading to product viral growth and product-market fit.

Marc Andreesen (a leading VC and former entrepreneur):

• "AI is the first monumental rearchitecture of what is a computer in 80 years."
• "The scenario where you have only a few big AI model winners is like if we just had mainframes instead of desktop and laptop and mobile and watch. It would mean basically the top AI models are the best across many things, and cheapest, and most power efficient, and fastest, and easiest to adopt and use for every scenario. And we are going to want AI infused in everything."

Founder of World Labs (Fei Fei Li, a major contributor to AI progress who is focusing on developing AI models that are spatially rather than linguistically intelligent):

• "So much of our intelligence is built upon visual perceptual spatial understanding. Not just language (the foundation for LLM models powering the current wave of AI). I think they are complimentary."
• Use cases for spatial models include: robots, disaster support like putting out a fire ("words alone aren’t enough"), gaming, scientific discoveries (DNA required 3d visualization)
• "Robots are more like self driving cars than LLMs. 20 years from self driving in desert to in the streets, and we’re not even done yet. And self driving cars are much simpler robots - they’re just metal boxes running on 2d surfaces, and the goal is not to touch anything. Robots are 3d things moving in the 3d world and the goal is to touch things."

Slack Founder on good software design:

• "Good software is less about reducing friction and more about reducing people feeling dumb or having to think when using your software.”
• On tilting your umbrella to let someone else go by more easily: “Bezos famously said ‘your margin is my opportunity’. At Slack we said ‘your non-umbrella tilt is my opportunity’. Your failure to really be considerate and empathetic about other people’s experience can be our critical advantage. Slack wouldn’t have grown the way it did without those little conveniences. ‘Tilt your umbrella’ is still on company swag.”