“I used to be good at spinning stories. Give me a half-baked startup idea, a semi-charismatic founder and a fistful of VC dollars, and I could write a story compelling enough it barely mattered whether there was an ounce of […]
It’s a little, yet useful tool for web nerds like yours truly. There are others, like BuiltWith, but this takes a bit wider technical scope. ~ learn more
“Whenever there are “too many” of fundraises of one type, the next round becomes the hardest to raise. In 2024, the Series A Crunch has returned. Software companies that have achieved the previous era’s milestone, $1m or more in ARR, […]
“One of the things I emphasized to [my students] is that no one really knows what current LLMs are capable of, since most of the tests conducted by AI companies focus mostly on coding and testing benchmarks, not real-world applications. […]
“Inbal Shani is the chief product officer at GitHub, where she leads core product management, along with product strategy, marketing, open source, and communities, including the development of GitHub Copilot.” Notably Copilot was one of the first big LLM use […]
An interview with Elizabeth Zalman and Jerry Neumann. “Together, they have written a somewhat contentious book called Founder vs Investor that lays bare the relationship at the core of most new businesses. They take specific moments in a start-up’s life […]
A long and detailed post about Dyno Therapeutics, a startup that’s using AI to iterate on capsid (viral protein shell) designs to serve as gene therapy delivery vessels. “In order to understand all of this, I’ve spoken with many of […]
“Kling has the ability to create two-minute videos in crystal-clear 1080p resolution at 30 frames per second, while faithfully replicating real-world physics.” ~ watch video
From a team at Meta: “Called Chameleon, the new system is built on an early fusion architecture, and because of that it is able to comingle multiple inputs in ways not possible with most other systems.” ~ learn more
“The company that put a computer on every desk and in every home. The company that invented the software business model. The company that so thoroughly and completely dominated every conceivable competitor that the United States government intervened and kneecapped […]