Scott Belsky
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Roundtable #7: Spotify, Adobe and Linkedin on How AI Changes The Future of Product & Design | E1097
Gustav Söderström, Scott Belsky, Tomer Cohen, Harry Stebbings
Product leaders from Adobe, Spotify, and LinkedIn converge on an AI-first paradigm that prioritizes specialized long-tail models and proprietary data over general-purpose mega models to secure competitive moats. This strategic shift necessitates a redesign of user interfaces into probabilistic AI personas, transforming design roles to encompass model mechanics, prompt engineering, and cost-efficient infrastructure management. While traditional seat-based licensing remains prevalent, the industry anticipates a future where value-based pricing replaces headcount metrics, driven by the need to simplify complex workflows through intelligent model routing and verticalized hardware.
Julio Vasconcellos: Scaling to $100M and 1,200 Employees and then Cratering | 20VC #928
Julio Vasconcellos, Harry Stebbings, Scott Belsky, Andy Rachleff
Venture capitalist Julio Torres-Costa leverages his background as Facebook's first head in Brazil and founder of the high-growth startup Pace Urbano to guide Atlantico, a fund dedicated to Latin American early-stage investments. He advocates for capital concentration on product-market fit and disciplined single-focus strategies while rejecting bureaucratic overhead to capture the region's projected 10x digital growth over the next decade. Torres-Costa's approach prioritizes aggressive returns through a high-conviction "power law" portfolio, accepting higher failure rates to secure outsized wins that cover the fund's losses.
Kayvon Beykpour: How to Structure and Manage the Best Product Reviews | 20VC #894
Kayvon Beykpour, Scott Belsky, Harry
Kayvon Beykpour recounts Periscope's evolution from an investor-rejected prototype to a low-latency platform that redefined live streaming as a "teleportation" experience through Scott Belsky's pivotal early funding. Beykpour details the operational frameworks and hiring strategies used to balance rational data with irrational passion, while highlighting a critical retrospective lesson where misaligned product defaults nearly undermined the core ephemeral value proposition. Ultimately, the narrative emphasizes the necessity for leaders to ignore conflicting market signals when pursuing a validated vision and to rigorously structure feedback loops to prevent organizational paralysis.