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Don’t Sleep on Consumer Tech: AI is Changing Everything

VC Cafe

But change seems to be brewing in the B2C space, powered by the fast advancements in AI and generative AI. Digiday reported conversations with media executives, with one publisher seeing a more than 50% decline in its search referral traffic since AI Overviews rolled out last year.

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Textio’s Founder Kieran Snyder on the Two Advantages Startups Have in AI (While Remaining Skeptical Of The Funding Gold Rush)

Hunter Walker

I was publishing quite a bit of original research about bias in workplace documents like performance reviews and job posts, a bunch of it went viral, and I got to know a lot of people who eventually became Textio customers. We had some unfair competitive advantages in serving HR buyers: we knew them all.

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Kindling Early B2C Growth: Getting to 1,000 Users

VC Cafe

Create viral content: Viral content can help you reach a massive audience in a short amount of time. However, it’s difficult to predict what will go viral, and this strategy is often more luck than skill. It’s so much easier to create content these days with generative AI.

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What could go wrong with Vinod Khosla’s techno-optimistic vision of the future

VC Cafe

What makes something go viral on TikTok (like Bin Laden’s ‘letter to America’ did recently ), is still a black box. We are excited about the potential of AI Agents, but sometimes it means that things get out of hand. It’s a vision that is easy to get behind.

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Fake Drake and AI Twins

Start Up Blog

Listen to Steve read this post (9 min audio) An AI-generated song purporting to be Drake and the Weeknd caused a stir in the music world after going viral and accumulating over 20 million views on streaming and social platforms. The label condemned the song for “infringing content created with generative AI.”

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2025 In Media and Entertainment Tech

VC Cafe

It’s hard to believe that ChatGPT is only 2 years old, considering the amount of capital that has been invested in generative AI startups since. Security protocols for AI-driven commerce. We’ll start seeing AI generated content go viral and create huge following. AI-generated VFX and animation).

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Weekly Firgun Newsletter – February 14 2025

VC Cafe

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 MEDIA OF THE WEEK The capital amount of M&As in the range of $100-$500m and $500-$1000m in Israel increased sharply, setting a decade record. Keep on creating.

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