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Nvidia has seen a fairly meteoric rise in its share price and notoriety in the last few years. From selling chips to gamers to providing the rails that the AI revolution runs on. This profile on Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang, provides a deeper look into the person behind the success.
Last week, CZ, founder of Binance, pleaded guilty to money laundering violations, and the firm is being fined $4bn. This article provides an interesting teardown of Binance’s rise, the regulatory borders it flirted with, and how global regulators allowed the shenanigans to go on for so long.
The number of startups that have raised >$10m now going out of business has increased 238% in 2023 versus last year, and we still have a month to go. This record pace of shutdowns will likely continue until the end of 2024.
A collection of articles that walks through a step-by-step approach to raising funding. From putting in the work before your pre-seed, building the perfect deck, and negotiating on a term sheet.
Here are a few ideas on how to help the sales team make 2024 your best year so far.
Ramp’s former Head of Growth, Sri Batchu, had to get inventive and explore growth strategies outside of PLG, owing to their product being heavily regulated and unfit for self-serve. Here’s a breakdown of those tactics, which include referral loops, SEO optimizations, and building bridges between your engineering and sales teams.
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Ebi Atawodi is the Director of Product Management at YouTube, former Head of Product at Uber, and a former Director of Product at Netflix. In this podcast, she talks through the various components of successful product management, from how to run a strategy session to building your vision statement.
While automation will likely be the way of the future, today, it’s all about augmenting your existing processes/self without having to rip and replace everything. Don’t fall into the trap of just augmenting yourself to do your job better - thinking through what and how to automate things and viewing your role holistically will allow you to find the best use of AI for your needs.
It’s really just one thing: complexity. However, going into the details of that is important. Deals should be straightforward and fair (both ways).
Charlie Munger passed away on the 29th of November. Here are some of his top quotes, a lot of which stress the importance of keeping things simple and consistently sticking to something for a long time.
Requests for your time and energy increase as you start to build some reasonable success as a founder. Learning the art of saying no and being ruthlessly focused on a defined vision is the antidote to distraction.
Balancing your team’s focus on workflow improvements v. product capabilities can be the difference between a solid quarter and a year of cleanup. This post is focused on more mature organizations and team leaders looking to manage the balancing act.