I found it very fascinating the whole story about how Rewind backed by a16z gets suddenly hurt by a young entrepreneur. Hurt so deep they release not ready product to the market just to capture it. Whole story is about wearable devices.

detailed tweet with screenshots https://x.com/Karmedge/status/1708983277246132438

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Original trigger post trigger to rewind response by @AviSchiffmann

date: 1:12 PM · Oct 1, 2023

https://x.com/AviSchiffmann/status/1708439854005321954

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Rewind response next day by @dsiroker

date: 9:53 PM · Oct 2, 2023

https://x.com/dsiroker/status/1708933247902892412

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@AviSchiffmann response to provocation:

10:49 PM · Oct 2, 2023

https://x.com/AviSchiffmann/status/1708947368333504616

Which horse you pick in the race?

For better or worse the rewind CEO seems to have a huge chip on his shoulder, that's probably good for the company near term, but it is funny and could cause strategic missteps if he thinks they need to "win" on too many fronts. He muted Avi's response on his announcement then went to multiple threads Avi was in and posted his product (mockup) as a response. Just the other day he went from publicly sharing his deck and talking about how open he is because they build so well or something to complaining about copycats.

I think that they are fighting a battle on too many fronts for a very new company, and getting into hardware tends to be a death knell, so we'll see if it matters. I'm just hoping Mac can basically do what they do but built in to the OS without requiring a 3rd party, seems doable.

They're also the same company that touts privacy so much that people don't realize their queries and context for those queries go to openai.

Interesting that founders with venture-backed businesses tend to react in bizarrely shitty ways.

(Rewind CEO here) I’ve been at this for a while: https://x.com/dsiroker/status/1708997628506292255

I don’t like the concept of sharing my data to anyone. Especially all parts of my life

I think rewind has big advantage here. Though small team execution may play crucial role.

Reminds me of Spotify creating dubbing for their podcasts and wondercraft (YC)