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Making of Arc Search, and finding your AI product strategy with Josh Miller
February 19, 2024

Josh Miller, Founder and CEO of The Browser Co, joins this week. We loved the experience with Arc Search, a new AI-enabled mobile search experience, we decided to talk to Josh directly about how it all came together. Topics:* How Arc Search came to be spa

Stages of Disruption: Adaptation, Evolution, or Revolution? Plus Email AI app Shortwave
February 13, 2024

Two former founders, now VCs, play with AI products and see where that leads...Fraser and Nabeel discuss the differences between horizontal disruption and vertical market disruption and the patterns of the phases of this disruption in the mobile age. From

Best of the Voice Note Apps, Three Layers of AI Coding & A Wishlist of Products
January 28, 2024

Reviewing voice note transcription apps, from WaveAI to Audiopen and ChatGPT. Then Fraser and Nabeel take stock of various ways AI coding is affecting software development, from Co-Pilots to "mealeable software development" and No-Code AI.  Lastly, the ho

Developments in Prompting, Making Sense of AI Hardware Gadgetpalooza & trying SunoAI music creation
January 18, 2024

Fraser and Nabeel discuss the onslaught of AI hardware launches, exploring the potential factors behind this shift. They also discuss the importance of designing not by listening to your customer but by understanding the customer. The duo also discuss the

Building entropically, Gemini, Prompt engineerings revenge, and Superpowered
December 11, 2023

Nabeel and Fraser briefly discuss Google's new AI model, Gemini, and keeping authenticity in startup pitches. They discuss the perils of trying to simplify when technology is lending towards complexity. How to stay authentic to yourself when pitching and

Launch stories of ChatGPT
December 02, 2023

Nabeel gets to ask Fraser for reflections on the development of ChatGPT on the one-year anniversary. They talk about the intersection of product managers and AI researchers, how ChatGPT came to be on the roadmap, how the team came to be formed, and the di

Three patterns of LLM product development
November 18, 2023

The conversation kicks off with the surprising news of Sam Altmans departure from OpenAI. Nabeel and Fraser then discuss the crazy week of product releases, demystifying the complexity and impact of AI in various workflows. They spotlight AI startup Li

My GPTs, and avoiding the OpenAI tidal wave as a founder
November 13, 2023

In this conversation, discussions revolve around the recent OpenAI Dev Day, the Reflect note taking app, and how founders should internalize the "threat" and partnership opportunities with OpenAI. Fraser & Nabeel discuss that it's still "fart app and

When do AI startups have advantage over incumbents?
November 10, 2023

Fraser & Nabeel get things up and running again at Hallway Chat. How AI is changing search engines, comparing Perplexity with Google, and what just goes to ChatGPT & Claude. "Shipping your org chat". Debating Sam Lessin's recent "State of Venture

Hallway Chat, #32 - Creating a middle class Creator Economy, Apple & service-based software, the PS5 and why we play games
January 29, 2021

Hey ya'll. In todays show we discuss Apple and service-based software releasing, the PS5 and why we play games, creating a middle class Creator Economy, blogging in 2021 and finding your voice on the internet, being a VC only in up times. It's our first e