Many of the current internet titans started by making things more efficient and accessible. Google for search, Facebook for connecting to people online, Microsoft for working with PCs at a reasonable price, Amazon for buying online as well as AWS. There are examples in other industries as well, Toyota is famous for it for example. There are probably counter examples but efficiency gains can be a huge deciding factor making companies successful.

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bravura an hour ago | parent [-]

You just listed a bunch of 0 to 1 companies, not 1 to 10 companies.

They weren’t quantitatively better than previous companies. They were qualitatively better.

	▲	cootsnuck an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I think finding significant efficiency gains with LLMs and the like may lead to qualitatively better products. Looking at people's experiences to DSV4F makes me believe that even more than before too. I don't think people are realizing that speed can allow for categorically different user experiences that are more than just "worse than frontier capabilities but faster".