This is reminiscent of the famed Sequoia RIP good times deck from 2008. Jason sent this email to 250+ founders he’s invested in basically warning them to get ready for “an event” in the markets. He’s not alone: KKR predicted a recession is imminent […]
These 156 slides by VC Nathan Benaich and Songkick founder Ian Hogarth will get you up to speed on state of the art in artificial intelligence. “Consider this report as a compilation of the most interesting things we’ve seen that […]
Software company Atlassian had two competing products: Stride and HipChat. Now it’s shutting both down and selling the IP to Slack. It’s also making a small investment into Slack because, “if you can’t beat them, join them.” | learn more
“The Biometric Mirror, the only one of its kind in the world, is tucked away in a foyer at the University of Melbourne. … It has been programmed to read faces based on thousands of photos of people that were […]
It costs $1,000, but some people really need help (me included). | learn more
The always-thoughtful Benedict Evans discusses machine learning in this post. He shuts down some of the oft-repeated sayings like “data is the new oil” in favor of more practical ways to understand the technology shift we’re living through. |learn more
“Amazon’s Alexa Prize is a multimillion-dollar competition to build AI that can chat like a human. On the face of it, Amazon isn’t asking much: just create a chatbot using Alexa that can talk to a human for 20 minutes […]
“Robert Smith’s private-equity firm, Vista Equity Partners, revamps software companies by following detailed protocols and gauging employees’ personalities and cognitive abilities. ‘Their process is like a factory,’ says one investor.” | learn more
This short video demos live image detection with digital information attaching to a physical object. This is a peek into the future, and I like it! | learn more
The real-estate company with a nice patina of tech has been in the news a lot lately because of their massive funding from SoftBank and eye-popping valuation. Recently I found great articles on the bull case for the business and the bear case on […]