What podcasts say about Lon Harris
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What Lon Harris has said on podcasts
54 statements · 34 positive · 13 negative · 2 mixed · 5 neutral
AI enables microdrama production at scale by reducing traditional production requirements
“there would be no practical way to do this if you had to make sets, if you had to make costumes, if you had to cast”
Open the episode · Inside The Startup Building Uncensored AI (Abliteration AI) | EP 2345Listen at 41:33
High-rated Airbnb listings with appealing photos provide predictable accommodations.
“from the Airbnb page, if it's got like a 4.8 or up rating and you look at the pictures and it looks nice, like you're pretty much confident in what kind of place you're going to be getting for sure.”
Open the episode · Justin Kan & Brian Chesky: The Rejections That Built Twitch and Airbnb | E2344Listen at 44:36
Instinct’s strength is creating repeatable, shareable viral content.
“If you have that, like we were talking about Instinct moments ago, the viral assistant app, that, that is the same thing. It's like the entire strength of it is how to create something, how to kind of have a comment, how to make a statement. That is repeatable and shareable”
Open the episode · Justin Kan & Brian Chesky: The Rejections That Built Twitch and Airbnb | E2344Listen at 50:31
AI has not yet caused a broad revival of in-person social activities.
“I have not seen like, I'm going to go to 5 extra concerts this summer, or I'm going to host more dinner parties.”
Open the episode · Justin Kan & Brian Chesky: The Rejections That Built Twitch and Airbnb | E2344Listen at 57:58
AI has increased worker productivity while making workers busier.
“what it seems like AI has done is made everybody a lot more productive at their job and therefore a lot busier at their job.”
Open the episode · Justin Kan & Brian Chesky: The Rejections That Built Twitch and Airbnb | E2344Listen at 59:22
AI-assisted newsletter production will still require Zach’s job for months.
“I think that's going to be Zach's job for at least the next few months”
Open the episode · Justin Kan & Brian Chesky: The Rejections That Built Twitch and Airbnb | E2344Listen at 1:02:09
AI is increasing company formation among existing entrepreneurs.
“we are seeing a lot of new companies and we're seeing a lot of people who have started one company are now starting 3 companies or are now starting 5 companies.”
Open the episode · Justin Kan & Brian Chesky: The Rejections That Built Twitch and Airbnb | E2344Listen at 1:09:16
AI tools make existing creators and small businesses more effective.
“people who are already doing that are becoming much more effective with the help of AI tools.”
Open the episode · Justin Kan & Brian Chesky: The Rejections That Built Twitch and Airbnb | E2344Listen at 1:11:49
GrokBot identifies and summarizes trending AI demos more efficiently.
“it actually summarizes for me. So it's like, LLaMA, Sonnet 5.5 demos are super hot today. I found 3 times as many of those as everything.”
Open the episode · Justin Kan & Brian Chesky: The Rejections That Built Twitch and Airbnb | E2344Listen at 1:15:17
AI agents automate routine newsletter production tasks, freeing time for writing.
“So all the ticky tack stuff is done and I just get to focus on the actual writing.”
Open the episode · Justin Kan & Brian Chesky: The Rejections That Built Twitch and Airbnb | E2344Listen at 1:15:44
Voice-controlled phones could let drivers handle messaging and email without typing.
“I think the idea, especially you could think of driving, where I still going home from work every, every day, there's people like almost killing me doing this. If you could just have your phone in the car and you could just talk to it, people are— you're texting people, you're sending memos, you're answering emails your entire life.”
Open the episode · The 5 Companies Apple Must BuyListen at 3:37
ElevenLabs could enable a fully voice-commanded iPhone system beyond improving Siri.
“Above and beyond fixing Siri and making your whole phone a voice-commanded system, I think, I think ElevenLabs is the one.”
Open the episode · The 5 Companies Apple Must BuyListen at 3:58
Combining Apple and Disney would unlock substantial synergies.
“if Apple and Disney were the same company, you know, unbelievable synergies to be unlocked there.”
Open the episode · The 5 Companies Apple Must BuyListen at 6:08
Sony would be an affordable strategic acquisition for Apple.
“I'm picking Sony for number 2. Again, a relative steal if you are Apple.”
Open the episode · The 5 Companies Apple Must BuyListen at 6:24
Acquiring Sony would give Apple access to PlayStation hardware in millions of homes.
“The big one here is the PlayStation. I think Apple immediately gets another device that's in millions and millions of homes that people are obsessed with”
Open the episode · The 5 Companies Apple Must BuyListen at 6:33
Perplexity could serve as a model-agnostic AI routing layer for Apple devices.
“Perplexity would be the perfect router and system that you could plug into your Apple device.”
Open the episode · The 5 Companies Apple Must BuyListen at 9:40
Etched provides the type of AI chip Apple urgently needs.
“Etched is exactly the kind of AI chip that Apple desperately needs.”
Open the episode · The 5 Companies Apple Must BuyListen at 13:10
Etched chips are designed for large-scale inference serving Siri and Apple Intelligence.
“Siri and Apple Intelligence are answering all of these requests, billions and billions of devices. That's the kind of job that Etched is building all of these chips for.”
Open the episode · The 5 Companies Apple Must BuyListen at 13:22
Acquiring Superhuman could rapidly improve multiple Apple productivity products.
“by just buying the company out, Apple could like upgrade all of its products overnight.”
Open the episode · The 5 Companies Apple Must BuyListen at 15:58
Sony could become a rival to Netflix if acquired by Apple.
“with Sony, I think they, they, they could essentially, they could become a Netflix rival.”
Open the episode · The 5 Companies Apple Must BuyListen at 18:40
Robert’s Chrome extension is intuitive, attractive, and professionally designed.
“The Chrome extension is so easy. Everything is just intuitive. It's really pretty. Like it really looks like it doesn't look vibe coded. It looks like a real professional website.”
Open the episode · Jason’s Put a $5K Bounty on His Dream Chrome Extension | E2338Listen at 24:50
Large language models are missing an expertise and context layer.
“it's that vital context that so many LLMs are missing.”
Open the episode · Jason’s Put a $5K Bounty on His Dream Chrome Extension | E2338Listen at 27:50
A first-time homeless founder is unlikely to receive startup funding.
“not very likely.”
Open the episode · Jason’s Put a $5K Bounty on His Dream Chrome Extension | E2338Listen at 35:05
Divisive celebrities can be more effective for marketing than universally liked figures.
“a divisive figure is like better.”
Open the episode · A rogue OpenAI agent hacked Australia’s government. Does this matter? | E2342Listen at 1:16:27
Complaints about Sydney Sweeney’s ad increase attention and benefit her financially.
“if you are going to make a complaint about a Sydney Sweeney ad, you're just feeding the beast.”
Open the episode · A rogue OpenAI agent hacked Australia’s government. Does this matter? | E2342Listen at 1:20:17
Current AI is nowhere near capable of taking over the world.
“I don't think it's anywhere close, like not anywhere close to being able to take over the world”
Open the episode · Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339Listen at 52:29
AI can already perform many practical tasks that make daily life easier.
“there are a hundred things that AI could do to make your life easier right now”
Open the episode · Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339Listen at 1:19:35
Physical 100 is an inspirational and highly recommended show.
“highly recommended physical 100. It's inspirational.”
Open the episode · Hugging Face Co-Founder on Open-Source, Microduck, and NVIDIA | E2339Listen at 1:32:18
The government should not fund AI development.
“The government doesn't need to be funding AI.”
Open the episode · The Pentagon Wants Equity in AI Startups | E2336Listen at 20:51
AI agents often become autonomous after roughly three or four refinement cycles.
“By the 3rd or 4th time, it's ready to go on its own.”
Open the episode · The Pentagon Wants Equity in AI Startups | E2336Listen at 45:38
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