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AI.com now redirects to x.AI, a company that aims to understand the true nature of the universe. OpenAI had seemingly purchased this domain back in February, but it looks like Musk has swooped in.
There’s a growing movement across the EU to save cash as governments, banks, and merchants encourage consumers to go digital.
Serve Robotics, an autonomous sidewalk delivery robot startup that spun out of Uber’s acquisition of Postmates, is going public via a reverse merger with a blank-check company.
Liquidity puts capital into the hands of employees and early investors, enabling them to reinvest into the ecosystem or themselves. We still see very few secondary events in the startup world, but it looks like that might change, with all the new products and communities propping up to support private share sales.
A lot of people have a romantic view on strategy. You do this big lift, lock in a strategy, and then flip to pure execution. In reality, building a company is this dance between strategy and execution. Follow these principles to avoid writing a strategy doc that nobody ever looks at more than once.
A long deep dive into Plaid and how its product, model, and culture led it to become a FinTech giant.
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A zero interest-rate policy environment can drive a lot of things in the wrong direction. This article unpacks some ‘winner takes none’ outcomes, where even the best/surviving companies end up consuming a tremendous amount of dollars and delivering little value.
As a big advocate of side-gigging and combinatorial creativity, I like this approach of using hobbies and extracurricular activities to build out T-shaped knowledge. What you do outside of work is going to influence how you show up to work.
We get it, AI is changing everything. But with any disruptive technology, doing the math on that disruption is actually pretty hard. Enter a16z with their typical deep-dive on how AI is going to disrupt the cloud and application layers. Dense (although good) read.
More marketers and content producers are turning to AI for efficiency. Over time, this will lead to a level of genericism in the market. The antidote will be authentic human production.
Advice often comes in the form of someone giving you their winning lottery ticket numbers, but that’s not exactly helpful. It’s good to be mindful when you hear successful people explain some of their success, that it might not always be the truth. Red herrings can lead you down costly paths.
We’re big fans of the folks over at SaaStr and this recap of a bunch of their tips for founders & CEOs resonates this time of year when we’re taking a break and also preparing for the big push into Q4. Always insightful and timely advice.