I don't like planning things. I just want to follow my curiosity and do something that provides someone else value. Zapier where I'm working now is a lot of AI adjacent things. If you are an obsessive curious person like I am, like you are, boy, man, that is going to be such a huge, almost asymmetric opportunity in the new world that we're going in.
Ben Tossell writes Ben’s Bites, a daily newsletter on AI that’s read by over 15,000 others from Google, a16z, Sequoia, Amazon, Meta and more. He previously founded Makerpad, a no-code education side which was acquired by Zapier in March 2021. Important Links:
Show Notes:
- Ben’s journey into AI
- The importance of ease of use
- How AI will impact our lives
- Ben’s hackathon
- Balancing originality and usefulness
- Why Ben is wary of providing strategic advice
- Achieving ground-up change with AI
- Interaction between the AI industry and the governments
- How Ben wants AI to be used
- Following your curiosity
- Making the world more competitive
- MUCH more!