Week 29 - Value, attention, and history

This week's articles, tweets, and podcasts every founder should check out.

✌🏽Welcome back

Welcome to the 29th edition of Inside Round by AngelList. Every week, we curate the tweets, podcasts, and articles every founder should check out. Let’s get into it…

Reading list

1/ Product-led marketing — by Kyle Polar

2/ Usage as the Moat in AI — by Tomasz Tunguz

3/ Attention is all you need — by Packy McCormick

4/ What if the problem you are solving is not that urgent? — by Hema Padhu

5/ The Secret to an In Sync Startup? Ditch Your Meetings and Try an Asynchronous Culture — by Sidharth Kakkar

6/ AI Safety: Technology vs Species Threats — by Elad Gil

7/ How to create valuable products that monetize — by Zoe Chew

8/ For B2B Generative AI Apps, Is Less More? — by Zeya Yang, Kristina Shen

9/ Hello Deep Learning — by Ben Hubert

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Threads of insight

dani grant @thedanigrant

In 1947, Grace Hopper found a dead moth in a Harvard computer. She started using the term “bug” to describe technical issues. Everyone thinks she invented the term, but she actually didn’t. 🧵

Steven Sinofsky @stevesi

A well-known hallmark of AI innovation over 65 years have been the cycles of AI winters. Another less considered cycle has been that as soon as an AI solution can do something "promised" (aka hyped) that solution is not "really" AI as claimed. 1/2

Shreyas Doshi @shreyas

It is a common misconception that people with the *strongest* Product Sense are overconfident / cocky. Overconfidence can be a factor for people who have *good* natural Product Sense but are lacking extensive real-world product experience. But to go from good to great, the most… https://t.co/5cKDcCm70o

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Listen and learn

Casey winter and Lenny discuss issues with the PM role today and how to think outside of popular frameworks to grow any business.

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