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“One of my philosophies of building companies is the importance of velocity,”

True. And the key to keep (increasing) velocity is momentum. I believe the fundamentals to that is infrastructure. Once you get to the "flywheel stage" of an AI company (http://nicodjimenez.github.io/2018/01/25/stages.html), experimentation becomes so easy that new models can be rolled out nightly.

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Actually the key to keep increasing velocity is maintaining a positive dv/dt, that is to say, acceleration. Momentum is more of a tendency to refuse to leave a state (think of `inertia-in-motion`), rather than actively seek it.

If that makes any sense at all, that is.

I think goal-driven is what keeps the momentum, regardless of the amount of investment and machinery available (though I have to admit a clean desk is better than a messy desk).

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