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The challenge with the current AI wave is that you need to hold two opposing ideas in your head at the same time: (1) AI as a technology will be transformational (underhyped, if anything) (2) The current generation of AI startups are overhyped

How to Build a New Era in Hollywood open.substack.com/pub/pricepoint…

Was just watching this recently, sums it up perfectly

Growth, sharing, and word-of-mouth matter for consumer products because 49.9% of a user’s decision to adopt is informed by their peers (with the remainder being the product’s intrinsic value and utility). The internal voice in a consumer’s head is constantly telling them,

Excited to speak The Drum LIVE tomorrow!

Paula Scher – “Less is more and more is more. It’s the middle that’s not a good place” creativechair.org/paula-scher/

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terrifying how much of the content we consume was created within the last 24hrs

This week on The Startup Leap, Raffi Salama, CEO & Co-Founder of Passionfruit - a marketplace that's reshaping the freelance economy, shares that work is a privilege, not just a job and how every great customer interaction raises their ambition. With Yvonne Bajela & Maria Rotilu

"Had pasta at Il Posto Accanto, which has the most chaotic and wonderful menu copy in all of New York." h/t Emily Sundberg from Feed Me

Quite the chart. An even bigger political backlash than after 2008/09. People really really really hate inflation. on.ft.com/3AkW6ND

Mikel revealing a bit more about what he looks for when scouting a player this morning. Super interesting.

The classic software startup writes code to solve users' problems. If AI makes writing code more of a commodity, understanding users' problems will become the most important component of starting a startup. But it already is.

In this episode, raffisalama joins James Pringle to discuss: 🤖 How AI & voice tooling are changing workflows inside enterprises 📊 Distribution as the biggest challenge of the AI age 📝 Passionfruit’s 3 hiring principles Listen Now🎙️🦄 #founder #ceo #podcast #Marketing

Building the Future of Marketing with Raffi Salama, CEO & Co-Founder @ Passionfruit youtube.com/watch?v=tR7dLJ…

Within the next 3 years, there will be so much AI, in particular AI video, people won’t know if what they see or hear is real. Which will lead to an explosion of f2f engagement, events and jobs. Those that were in the office will be in the field. Call it the Milli Vanilli

Pumped to release ep1 of "Building Passionfruit" 📺 linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…