Brian Balfour
① 他说过的话
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构建很棒的产品是必要的事情之一，但不是充分的，而真正的区别在于那些真正构建了很棒的渠道的人。
指向原始笔记的链接
building a great product is one of those things that’s necessary, but not sufficient, and actually the separation is between those that build really great distribution.
—— Brian Balfour · [05:15]
AI 技术变革是一场尚未伴随渠道变革的技术变革。
指向原始笔记的链接
the AI technology shift has been a technology shift that has not come with a distribution shift yet.
—— Brian Balfour · [08:49]
一个新分发平台出现的所有条件、所有要素本质上都在发生。
指向原始笔记的链接
all of the conditions, all of the ingredients for a new distribution platform to emerge are essentially happening.
—— Brian Balfour · [09:33]
最终这变成了囚徒困境，也就是，没有不参与游戏的选择。
指向原始笔记的链接
It ends up being a prisoner’s dilemma, which is, there is no opting out of the game.
—— Brian Balfour · [28:26]
护城河是关于上下文和记忆的。
指向原始笔记的链接
the moat is about context and memory.
—— Brian Balfour · [30:40]
这些模型本身，如果你把它们并排比较，它们产生的结果是一样的，所以真正的决胜点是谁拥有更多的你的上下文，因为是上下文加上模型产生了最好的输出
指向原始笔记的链接
these models by themselves, if you compare them side by side, they generate the same result, and so the actual difference-maker is which one has more of your context, because it’s the context plus the model that produces the best output
—— Brian Balfour · [30:44]
从来都不是那个在当下拥有最大分发的人。而是那个拥有最好留存率和参与度的人。
指向原始笔记的链接
it was never the person who had the biggest distribution at the moment of time. It was the one that had the best retention and engagement.
—— Brian Balfour · [32:05]
用户在横向工具上很挣扎。它们什么都能做，而这正是它们难以被采用的原因，所以它们通常需要更具体的入口点。
指向原始笔记的链接
Users struggle with horizontal tools. They can do everything, and that’s exactly why they struggle to adopt, and so they typically need more specific entry points.
—— Brian Balfour · [45:30]
你没有分散筹码的奢侈品。你必须全押。你必须选择一个并全力以赴。
指向原始笔记的链接
You don’t have the luxury to spread your chips. You have to go all in. You have to choose one and go all in.
—— Brian Balfour · [50:10]
所有的失败都是那些试图同时玩多个游戏且拥有稀缺资源的，如果你是早期初创公司，这往往是行不通的。
指向原始笔记的链接
all the failures are the ones that tried to play multiple games at once with scarce resources, and that just tends to never work if you’re an early-stage startup.
—— Brian Balfour · [51:49]
一旦你进入了游戏，那么你需要立即开始思考如何退出游戏。
指向原始笔记的链接
once you enter the game, then you immediately need to move to starting to think about how do you exit the game.
—— Brian Balfour · [59:28]
实际上真正起作用的是那些正在定义难以置信的硬性约束的公司。
指向原始笔记的链接
the thing that is actually moving the needle are the companies that are defining incredibly hard constraints.
—— Brian Balfour · [69:23]
区分做出这种变革的前百分之几和其他人的东西本质上是在做最艰难的决定，而最艰难的决定归结为让人员离开。
指向原始笔记的链接
the things that separates out the top few percent making this change and everybody else is essentially making the hardest decisions, and that hardest decision is going to come down to exiting people.
—— Brian Balfour · [70:36]
文化依赖于密度，这就是为什么有时最好的文化感觉像邪教。
指向原始笔记的链接
Cultures thrive on density, and that’s why there’s sometimes the best ones feel like cults.
—— Brian Balfour · [72:48]
你的输出受限于你系统中最慢的部分。
指向原始笔记的链接
your output is constrained by the slowest part of your system.
—— Brian Balfour · [77:10]
如果你只是加速系统的一个部分，你只会把瓶颈转移到另一个部分，而你实际的产品产出，即系统的产出也不会加速。
指向原始笔记的链接
If you just accelerate one part of the system, you’re just going to move to the bottleneck to another part and your actual product output, the output of the system doesn’t accelerate, either.
—— Brian Balfour · [78:19]
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