EP 01 Jun 5, 2024 43 min
Stephen Smith on why dashboards are obsolete
With Stephen Smith, Founder, Simplyput.ai
Stephen Smith on timing the AI wave right, why dashboards are obsolete, what lives beyond the text-to-SQL meme, and how to not get wiped out by the next OpenAI release.
Show notes
- 00:30 — Intro
- 04:11 — Entrepreneurial journey and self-doubt
- 08:15 — Learnings from the first act
- 11:27 — Timing: striking the iron while it’s hot
- 12:27 — Early positioning to ride the AI wave
- 14:48 — Not another text-to-SQL play
- 21:58 — Why dashboards are obsolete
- 24:03 — How to not get wiped out by AGI / OpenAI innovation
- 25:29 — The impact of larger context windows
- 29:33 — Perplexity-like layer & B2B2C, guardrails, customer story
- 36:06 — AI to generate auto-insights
- 40:54 — Wrapping up: advice to young entrepreneurs