⛳️ Noteworthy Bits

The Age of AI Has Begun by Bill Gates

One of the GOATs of technology, Bill Gates, describes how GPT is the most important advance in technology he has seen since the invention of the graphical user interface.

“The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the microprocessor, the personal computer, the Internet, and the mobile phone. It will change the way people work, learn, travel, get health care, and communicate with each other. Entire industries will reorient around it. Businesses will distinguish themselves by how well they use it.”

Society's Technical Debt and Software's Gutenberg Moment from SK Ventures

“There is immense hyperbole about recent developments in artificial intelligence, especially Large Language Models like ChatGPT. And there is also deserved concern about such technologies’ material impact on jobs. But observers are missing two very important things…”

How Salesforce Built a $13 Billion Empire from a CRM from Hiten Shah

Remember how you used to buy software on CDs? This is a historical look at how Salesforce created an entirely new category of software delivered as a service.

“The way that Salesforce completely moved the entire software industry to the cloud was revolutionary. But users never would have paid them any attention or cared about their cloud movement if they’d been selling a crappy product.

Salesforce created a CRM and put it in the cloud so that they could get users excited about cloud products. Then, they used their position as the cloud leader to build out more (and better) products that users wanted, and that fueled their own growth.”