Five invites per user, a three-week trust curve and a compute bill that doubles every week. The 10 takeaways from Shinn's Invest Like the Best interview.
Scaling trust through artificial scarcity works because it forces a rapid compression of the adoption cycle. When the barrier to entry is social rather than financial, the velocity of the feedback loop increases exponentially. This creates a unique environment where the system learns from its own user base at a speed traditional security models cannot match. My own observations suggest that when machines take over the red teaming process, they mirror this velocity, finding vulnerabilities by iterating on the very trust curves that these platforms rely on to grow. We are moving toward a period where the speed of defense must be calibrated to the speed of viral adoption.
The 40%-share-a-card-in-3-weeks number is really a commitment device — small, reversible acts before the irreversible one. That's exactly how I sequence retirement planning with salaried clients: a small SIP first, the large lock-in much later, once trust and cash-flow proof exist.
the checker line is the one i'd underline. a checker that shares the agent's incentives is just a second agent agreeing with the first. same reason judge-model evals produce well-shaped sycophants. decoupling the incentive is the whole game.
Scaling trust through artificial scarcity works because it forces a rapid compression of the adoption cycle. When the barrier to entry is social rather than financial, the velocity of the feedback loop increases exponentially. This creates a unique environment where the system learns from its own user base at a speed traditional security models cannot match. My own observations suggest that when machines take over the red teaming process, they mirror this velocity, finding vulnerabilities by iterating on the very trust curves that these platforms rely on to grow. We are moving toward a period where the speed of defense must be calibrated to the speed of viral adoption.
https://cyrilsimonnet.substack.com/p/this-months-best-red-teamers-were?utm_source=substor&utm_medium=substack&utm_campaign=comment
The 40%-share-a-card-in-3-weeks number is really a commitment device — small, reversible acts before the irreversible one. That's exactly how I sequence retirement planning with salaried clients: a small SIP first, the large lock-in much later, once trust and cash-flow proof exist.
the checker line is the one i'd underline. a checker that shares the agent's incentives is just a second agent agreeing with the first. same reason judge-model evals produce well-shaped sycophants. decoupling the incentive is the whole game.