Mike Vernal
American investor and engineer, general partner at Conviction; earlier a vice president of product and engineering at Facebook and a partner at Sequoia Capital.
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Their wordsIT *is* software engineering for most companies in the world. Most companies don’t have software engineers – they have an IT department that is responsible for deploying software to make the business run better/faster/more efficiently in a safe, compliant fashion.
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Their wordsI do think once we relax the concept that "all functionality needs to be exposed via the UI," we give software the chance to be dramatically simpler.
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Their wordsIt'll be interesting to see if this creates a modern form of the innovator's dilemma, i.e., enabling agentic use (which is unequivocally pro-customer) cuts deeply to their bottom line, creating opportunity for those that don't rely on ads for their operating profit (e.g., Shopify).
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Their wordsTo the extent I have derived any formula for success, it is this – imagine the world is a turn-based game, try to squeeze as many turns into any given period of time that you can, and have the discipline (see below) or infrastructure (e.g.,
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Their wordsOne of the crazier facts about venture is that it seems consistently possible to build a small community of college-aged kids that is incredibly talent dense
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Their wordsOne (maybe the only?) thing that seems certain over the next few years is that inference is going to grow like crazy.
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Their wordsI think AI will do the same for apps and software development more generally (both in the enterprise and in consumer). A small # of platforms will become more powerful and "app" creation will become radically democratized.