Alexandr Wang on Muse: 10 days to beat ChatGPT on the App Store with a team under 200
___Mufasaa · x · 2026-10-13
Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang says big companies have a "smoothie problem"—every PM blends in features until users can taste it, and it's now happening inside AI labs too.
A newsletter breakdown shows how Muse avoided it: launched Sept 8, passed ChatGPT atop the App Store in 10 days after 7 months of work; team kept deliberately under 200; one point of view (Nat Friedman's taste); a 100+ row behavior spreadsheet set the launch date; 200+ researchers reported directly to Wang; memes from his own X account drove marketing.
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