Friday Five for Founders
Hi all 27,078 of you and happy Friday!?As promised, I have scoured the internet to find five pieces of content I think you'll love, including a podcast recommendation, quote, interview, book and film. So here goes!
PODCAST
In recent months, I have recommended this podcast episode countless times. Its host Bilal Zaidi interviews founders and experts in the fields of marketing in order to share digestible lessons for entrepreneurs. In this episode, he talks to Lenny Rachitsky (ex-Growth at Airbnb) - the man behind the extremely popular Lenny's Newsletter (about startups, growth and product) - and they dig deep into something Lenny has coined the Racecar Growth Framework. Well worth a listen if you are looking to grow a community or business, sell a product or improve your marketing techniques.
Listen here.
QUOTE
"All the really successful people I know have a very strong action bias. They just do things. The easiest way to figure out if something is viable or not is by doing it."
Naval Ravikant, serial tech founder and investor. If you haven't already read Naval's viral tweetstorm on "How to get rich," check it out here.
INTERVIEW
Melanie Mitchell The Computer Scientist Training AI to Think With Analogies
Quanta Magazine spoke to Melanie Mitchell - Davis Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, Professor of Computer Science at Portland State University and author of Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans - about why she thinks machines need to be able to make good analogies before they can approach human-level intelligence.
"My intuition is that yes, we will not be able to get to humanlike analogy [in AI] without some kind of embodiment. Having a body might be essential because some of these visual problems require you to think of them in three dimensions. And that, for me, has to do with having lived in the world and moved my head around, and understood how things are related spatially. I don’t know if a machine has to go through that stage. I think it probably will."
Read the interview here.
BOOK
Rana el Kaliouby just sold her AI startup, Affectiva, for $73.5 million and her life story which she shares in her book ?Girl Decoded: A Scientist’s Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology is truly inspiring.
A self-described nerd at heart who felt like a misfit growing up, Egyptian-born Rana ended up Cambridge, UK not long after 9/11. A young hijab-wearing mother, brought up in a strict Muslim household, Rana pursued her studies in Emotional AI despite much adversity, before heading to MIT and starting a business with her mentor Professor Rosalind Picard. This is a fantastic read and one you should definitely add to your summer reading list.
领英推荐
If you like, it, check out my podcast episode with Rana where we have a very raw and authentic conversation about the book, why it’s critical for your company to have core values, and the toll her chosen path took on her personal life.
Listen to our podcast episode here.
FILM
The Founder starring Michael Keaton is one of my favourite films on being a founder. Yes, it's about the origins of McDonald's but trust me, it's a great insight into the highs and lows of building a business, and a fun watch too.
Watch it here.
Hope you enjoyed this week's newsletter and have a lovely weekend!
Danielle
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