VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Paul Graham’s recent essay, Founder Mode , describes the mindset that founders need to adopt to navigate the early stages of building a startup, and how they’re different than ‘manager mode’ which is traditional management/corporate best practices.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 30, 2023

ChatGPT has barely been out for six months, but it seems like generative AI automation has just taken a leap forward with AutoGPT. Driven by GPT4, AutoGPT is able to code, execute scripts and push the boundaries of what is possible with AI. Cointelegraph AutoGPT essentially creates its own list of prompts.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 4, 2024

The breakneck speed of AI advancement is one of those areas where the stream of information is so constant and so dense, that it’s very hard to process it all, let alone STAND OUT in the crowd. This creates a challenge, but also an opportunity for startups in the generative AI space. apply here: [link] ).

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

billion invested in coding agents and co-pilots alone, with Google, Salesforce, Meta, and other incumbents heavily investing in Agentic AI. When it comes to Generative AI, the incumbents are not resting on their laurels. Google is also leaning in on AI Agents. Since then, we’ve seen approximately $1.5

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

Yet, these are the risks we are being asked to take with our live Generative AI experiment, at least according to some AI experts. P(Doom) is the term AI researchers are using to describe the probability that Artificial Super Intelligence will emerge and become an existential risk for humanity. Would you do it?

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

I covered my personal journey to venture capital, what makes our partnership work at Remagine Ventures , and gave an intro to Generative AI, a current theme that connects to our investment thesis (we made 3 investments in the space). Some use general data sets, and others train their models on proprietary data. Jasper, Copy.ai

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

I was watching a fireside chat from SaaStr 2023 between Jason Lemkin and David Sacks (ex Paypal Mafia, All In podcast co-founder and managing partner at Craft Ventures, with $3.3 Co-pilots – every industry will have its own co-pilots. billion under management). Lawyers, doctors, architects, designers, etc.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

So much has happened in the generative AI space globally, and in Israel since we published the previous version of the Israeli generative AI landscape, back almost exactly five months ago. We’ve seen new foundational models, open source LLMs and all sorts of new companies building the co-pilots for every category.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company. He is also the co-founder of Traction, a community empowering over 100k innovators through connections, content, and capital. He is the co-founder of Boast.ai This is John Jansen.

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VC Cafe

MAY 2, 2023

The theme of this year’s conference was ‘Possibility’ and there was a significant focus on AI and generative AI, and the possibilities they unlock. Theme 1: The Power of Generative AI The first AI talk was by Greg Brockman , co-founder and CEO of OpenAI.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 17, 2023

“The unanticipated demand to create AI software has outstripped the cloud service capacities of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google Cloud, and Oracle” The Information The big challenge in generative AI is GPU shortage and costs. This affects both big players like OpenAI / Stability AI as well as small startups.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It’s a bit crazy to think that even a year ago, the term ‘generative AI’ was not exactly on everyone’s lips. To put things in context, let’s start with the basics: 2023 witnessed an impressive influx of $15 billion invested in generative AI startups, significantly surpassing last year’s $4 billion.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Iuri Struta , S& P Global ( source ) I was listening to Bret Taylor , the founder and CEO of Sierra, former co-CEO of Salesforce, ex CTO of Facebook and current chairman of OpenAI on the 20VC podcast. The Modern AI Stack – Menlo Ventures ( source ) If not LLMs, where will the value accrue in Generative AI?

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 17, 2024

How to Balance AI Magic with Human Expertise written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Jeff Coyle, the Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer for MarketMuse. This is John Jantsch.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Second, it matters to us externally that founders know it’s always Homebrew making the investment – never a situation where one of us was excited and the other one didn’t block it. Satya and I were excited by the vision and the cofounders’ previous work experience together.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 14, 2024

In this episode of the AI + a16z podcast, Inngest cofounder and CEO Tony Holdstock-Brown joins a16z partner Yoko Li to discuss the reality and complexity of running AI agents and other multistep AI workflows in production.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2024

For this episode, we’ve stitched together two archived episodes from the a16z Podcast , both featuring General Partner Anjney Midha. In the first half, from December, he speaks with Mistral cofounder and CEO Arthur Mensch about the importance of open foundation models, as well as Mistral’s approach to building them.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 22, 2024

I’ll finish with another TED talk takeaway on the existential threat of AI, this time from Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founder of Deepmind, founder of Inflection, and now CEO of consumer AI at Microsoft. Can we avoid the 3 conditions that make AI very dangerous in the next 5-10 years? Time will tell.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 11, 2023

Riffing Off VC Charles Hudson’s Blog Post, Here’s What I’m Trying to Answer a group of different robots running a race, digital art [DALL-E] If startup founders sometimes ‘Build in Public,’ is the analogou sventure capitalist motto to ‘Think in Public?’ And then I read Charles Hudson’s post, which prompted me [AI PUN] to just write this down.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

I’ve written about Agentic AI on VC Cafe in May 2024 and specifically about AI agents as the evolution of RPA (robotic process automation) in September 2024. But first, a refresher on what is Agentic AI , how it’s different and why VCs are all of a sudden so excited about it. What’s Different About Agentic AI?

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Questions I ask Kate Bradley Chernis: [00:57] Exactly how did you go from DJ to business founder? [06:06] 06:06] What’s your take on, how AI is changing the whole landscape of content marketing? [11:53] 11:53] As a social selling platform that uses AI what is Lately’s key differentiator from other brands?

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Mira Murati , co-founder and CTO of OpenAI announced she’s leaving as well as the company’s head of research. YouTube launched a bunch of generative AI video capabilities for creators and Google made several upgrades to the impressive NotebookLM. So far it hasn’t deterred the investors putting $6.5

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 27, 2022

However, NextView’s initial Generative AI investing hypothesis has been focused not on the amusement factor of democratizing access to art, music, and text generation for the masses layperson/hobbyists which has captured much of the attention in the popular press and zeitgeist.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 15, 2024

But in the coming age of generative AI, endless synthetic content and misinformation – there might be an opportunity for traditional media companies to regain their reputation as a 4th branch within a democracy. How can media companies transform generative AI from threat to opportunity ?

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Up to 38% of jobs in Latin America and the Caribbean could be exposed to generative AI, the World Bank Group identified in its 2024 report. Industry leaders Google and Massy aim to close the gap between the Caribbean, Latin America, and AI. While AI is set to contribute 5.4% Both are seasoned executives and experts in AI.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 7, 2025

Looking Back: A Year Defined by Generative AI 2024 will go down in history as the year generative AI truly went mainstream. It wasnt just startups leveraging generative AIcorporates like Adobe, Salesforce, and Google integrated AI-powered features into their core products, making it ubiquitous.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 24, 2023

.” Thomas Friedman Bill Gates, Thomas Friedman and Sam Altman, recently published thought pieces/interviews on why the rapid development of AI technologies means we’re entering a new era for humanity. This has been demonstrated in AI-generated text that displays gender, racial, or cultural stereotypes.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Ilya Sutskever , co-founder of OpenAI is in talk to raise billions for Safe Superintelligence Inc. Who are the AI Agents at each line of the P&L? by Madrona Interesting stat: about 10% of Y Combinator companies achieves an exit – by Lenny Rachitsky Bonus: opening moves in global AI – report by Dealroom.co

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

is the co-founder and co-director of Bad Robot Productions , which has been the force behind some of the most successful and well-known films and TV shows of our time. Generating stories, generating conversation. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT. Reid Hoffman:?? Hi, everyone. Welcome to Greylock’s Iconversations. Abrams with us.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 6, 2023

It’s just been the first anniversary since ChatGPT burst into the world and launched the term ‘generative AI’ into the mainstream. It’s been a big year for AI. billion invested in generative AI startups globally in the first half of 2023 according to Pitchbook.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2025

” Des Traynor, co-founder of Intercom AI startups attracted a record 46.4% Sarah Guo and Conviction Capital Sarah Guo is the founder of Conviction, an early stage VC fund, Embed is an acceleration program launched by Conviction, investing $150K into pre-seed AI startups. Time to build !

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