Good vs Great Solutions

 Solutions can be built with different levels of accuracy/scalability based on Talent, Time, and Money

• Product built with 20$ Upwork contractor
• Product built with 400$ up-work expert
• Product built with 40K FTE
• Product built with 100K FTE Experienced Research / Dev

How do you differentiate each one based on architecture, performance, and benchmark against the best? 

Steve Jobs: The difference between good people and great people in software is 50-to-1

“I’ve always considered part of my job was to keep the quality level of people in the organizations I work with very high. I mean that’s what I consider one of the few things I can contribute… pic.twitter.com/NBlk3UoWSC

— Startup Archive (@StartupArchive_) November 17, 2024

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Layoff - Analysis

Some key things we need to understand 

• Hiring people to avoid giving talent to competitors
• Feels scared are the trends are real trends but distracting competition
• Unable to track/understand trends / Far from reality
• Is this a consequence of Over hiring - Without clarity of perspectives
• Working on an Idea that never has a market - Metaverse / Bitcoin 
• Big companies build LLM - Focused startups pick and solve domain problems

Keep Thinking!!!