From a16z’s Frank Chen, a refreshing perspective on AI. “So the counter-narrative I want to offer to the mainstream, front page accounts [of doom] is that with careful, thoughtful, empathic design, we can enable ourselves to live longer, safer lives. […]
“Voice computing seeks to deliver a single correct response to any query. That’s why it’s going to upend our relationship with information.” | learn more
This company elicits a lot of strong feelings these days – from its clearly addictive nicotine product to its $38B valuation and recent investment from cigarette maker Altria. | learn more
“The NVC is the University of Chicago’s nationally ranked accelerator program that has graduated more than 230 startup companies still in operation today.” | learn more
Investor Elizabeth Yin from Hustle Fund shares 12 things she’s learned from her experience writing angel checks. | learn more
Brad Feld summarizes his partner’s longer post about how to get one of the few coveted jobs in this field. |learn more
“A new breed of high-tech real estate flippers is using algorithms (and a healthy dose of Silicon Valley venture capital) to buy at massive scale.” | learn more
This Forbes piece doesn’t cover recent news, but it is a neat profile of one Chicago’s entrepreneurship heroes. The author interviewed Sam Yagan to learn about his history founding SparkNotes (went well), eDonkey (ended badly), and OKCupid (eventually acquired to […]
Gina Bianchini, CEO of Mighty Networks, discusses how the internet has fundamentally changed business models for media. Specifically, she’s saying that audiences are out and networks are in. I think she makes a great point! | learn more
Axios reports on the new technology from OpenAI that enables machines to write human-sounding prose. Combined with Deepfake technology to create artificial video and audio, “It could be used to influence people one-on-one on a massive scale, rather than distributing […]