What Roman Ugarte thinks about innovation
Leads product for Grok Bot at SpaceX AI; previously led growth at Cursor, which he joined when it had about 15 people.
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Their wordsI think it's just been hard to act on if you're stuck in the existing paradigm and if you have a lot of kind of sunk cost in that existing paradigm, it's very painful to create a new thing from scratch.
↗How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)youtube.com 7th of 18 in this recording
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Their wordsAnd I think for knowledge work, we're going to see a similar pattern of people really feeling the aha moment sometimes in a personal capacity.
↗How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)youtube.com 13th of 18 in this recording
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Our readingAn AI product company that cannot completely reinvent itself every six months is going to lose.
Their wordsAnd if we as a company can't completely reinvent ourselves every six months, which recently it's felt even shorter than that of kind of complete like very significant reinventions of our priorities, the core product, what users feel, uh we're going to lose.
↗How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)youtube.com 16th of 18 in this recording
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