For today's edition of Axios Pro Media Deals, we covered: 🚨 The Atlantic + Vox Media inked deals with OpenAI - Sara Fischer 🗣️ Avail CEO chris giliberti on generative AI in Hollywood - Tim Baysinger 🗓️ TikTok US gets a court date - @FlahertyMW axios.com/pro/media-deal…

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AI breakthrough where getting seated at a restaurant doesn’t require 3 people pecking at an iPad for 5 mins 🙏

Tilly now has industry awareness equivalent to top movie stars. Her entire resume is this photo.

Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed of scaling a vertical saas startup to $100m ARR in 18 mos.

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In entertainment, many businesses traditionally opposed to software are now buying because of AI hype. Interestingly, this applies to non-AI products as well! This cycle opened the door to anyone selling something useful.

Tech is rebuilding media & entertainment with a parallel set of companies and business models - it's exciting! Somewhat of a gap, however, on creative quality. By all means reinvent the business model, but in the actual storytelling, take notes from the greats.

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Every scandal plagued startup has one thing in common: They all articulated a mission through EV. “We’ll be the fastest to $100M ARR” or “we aim to become a trillion dollar company.” Compare these founders to those who have actually done it. None talk about mission this way.

Convinced this is the perfect time to learn coding. Friction greatly minimized, and yet you can still trace an agent through its tasks, which helps you learn all the underpinnings.