There is a reason chat bots work - it mimics natural human interaction.

But this can be interest pattern - for say AI driven personal tutor for math topic

Lastly - for love of god - pls do something with the UI - all colors and bubbles and I am totally lost just trying to make sense of what is going on. Look at reditt if you just want back and forth thread convo style. Life is simpler that way.

Pass - nothing ground breaking here. Just another pirate trying pass on as legit coolster!

Fractals are old folly, patterns of nature - wonder if there are active use cases to represent data in some form of fractal models

Dev + Business = speed and customer centric

Dev + PM + Business = one more layer, i.e. slow, i.e. some loss of customer voice

I worked at Amazon as dev for 10 yrs. In early days 2001+. Amazon did not hire PMs then. Best of Amazon exp came out in that period. I was part of that myself. Pm is needed for things like building amazon prime. If at all.

I am looking for recos for independents who are willing to conduct security audit for our company. I am CTO decision maker. Any pointers appreciated.

Details below:

We are a B2B startup that has scaled to 3 digit M revenue. Our business is overseas (not US). Key decision makers are however from valley, some with serious startup/FAANG exp including me.

- Core of our platform includes customer facing apps (native android), e-commerce customer, order and item/catalog workflows hosted in GCP (native java some ruby on rails, unfortunately mostly one SQL) - third party tools that integrated running warehouses. - We are above average in GCP cloud security as per Google (we use lot of tools and are auditing sec command center)

We need to conduct a security audit for software in the cloud (where most critical data lives) as well as for our physical IT infra (laptops, routers, policies etc).

Key Question: 1. What should I include in RFP for a very tech and automation driven + cloud centered security audit? 2. How about Vanta and many of these startups who give you automate compliance. Any pointers appreciated. Thx!

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The backbone of years of manufacturing from shenzhen belt in itself is becoming a moat. For example - I was literally talking to a fast fashion seller with a few shops in seoul yesterday - historically - korea has had edge on design lines to adopt and produce fast fashion from NY/EU creative trends and then manufacture in vietnam/banglafdesh etc - he is just starting to shift some of his buying to China. Their work is now better quality and more so it is cheaper - in vietnam I also saw a fashion retailer going ga ga over quality of men belts he is sourcing from china and now cost is lower - earlier only luxury retailers types had access to such stuff from China - weak IP/copy/ better-trained workforce is making luxury produce more easy to produce may be. Cross border/brand less might be next frontier in ecom here.

The spending and capital power of giants such as Ali/Tencent is becoming a moat. These giants got huge with breaking out market but now they are something like a governopoly working closely with policy makers for china vision.

All of this is affecting SE asia and now even India. In nutshell - below might be different now for starting a company:

1) Being first and just being there might matter more - product-market fit can be weak? because you are dealing with a customer base that is just coming mobile and is much less sophisticated - they will still be ok with your service with some compromise - this is fundamentally against what I have known all my life! - in long term I bet good old best CX matters - but for immature markets not so much right now

2) Being first in small market / being market maker: great if you can do this but this is not needed in Asian context. There is enough size and potential growth coming that just building in the existing big market verticals is ok - you have an opportunity to differentiate by having stronger talent and actually improving existing experience if you can start with a smaller category or segment - ok to go head on with existing players - may be same thing YC says but I word differently

3) Talent is sparse - so you have lots of avg. stuff built and then iterated - this can be your secret advantage even more so here - you can do same thing but bit faster and at better quality

I have think more about this to be more constructive. These are some of my early thoughts and I again - I just hope to share and exchange what I know. I may be wrong and hey that is ok!

https://technode.com/ also useful sometimes

Another one - mostly shallow grapevine with SE Asia view https://thelowdown.momentum.asia/ - probably many such exist

I have no affiliation with any of above. Thanks to google - I keep hitting these more than others.

This is not a criticism.

I am just asking if what I am seeing is what non valley founders are realising also - I am speaking from first-hand experience working in China/SE asia for past 3 years and recently Vietnam, where I met many founders.

Finally - what I really hope for is if someone can suggest good reads/books on growing scaling companies in Asian environments. The english literature is sparse on the topic and usuals of sam altman to peter thiel honestly does not fully apply in the global / cross border dynamics. World works somewhat differently for people starting company in Asia now and I kid you not - markets are huge and many huge names will continue to emerge beyond Tencent and Alibaba or Flipkart.

I am just turned off by how much good valley advise is now out of touch on what is happening in asia - circa 2018.

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