Brand exploration for OpenAI with Sam Altman, February 2023 Two logo concepts – Circle and Monogram – alongside broader exploration for ChatGPT across brand and product. More details and link below.

“If AI had existed ten years ago, products would not look the way they do today. We need to move beyond chat and create experiences where AI feels native, invisible, and context-aware. This is our role: to imagine the future, and to bring it into the present.”

2. Faster questions: removed the bottom navigation, allowing the app to launch with the keyboard open, making it faster to ask questions.

Observed: The portability of products and people is an essential motion for innovation to thrive in a big company. But this tendency is somewhat counterintuitive for traditional managers that define their success by the number of people on their team. Perhaps the true “entrepreneurs” in big companies don’t hoard and build fiefdoms, they start and handoff - constantly “re-potting” anything that starts growing fast into the right part of the business with the right incentives so the roots go deep?

Truly stellar quarter. Improving step by step. Thanks to all Spotify teams around the world.

when it comes to nailing product-market fit, empathy > passion. too many builders are motivated by vision as opposed to understanding what their customers are actually struggling with (often nuanced, psychological, and surprising). passion is the red herring of product - often yielding results many degrees off.