Two back to school nights this week 📚🧮… First year that parents are actively asking what about ChatGPT? what’s your teacher / classroom AI policy? Nothing is banned but instead kids are getting media literacy training on how to use (and not use) AI tools, as a parent I think

What a force. A beautiful fierce force.

We are fighting barbarians. Whose side are you on?

Highly recommend reading this Subscription Value Loop framework from Phil Carter — very applicable to Prosumer GenAI apps today, retention isn’t all you need 👇

Congrats to hardmaru + Sakana AI team on their Series A! 🇯🇵 Sakana is one of a kind AI company with a distinct philosophy and focus, excited to see their trajectory 👏 Andrew Schoen Nyle Sykes on our team and props on this opening paragraph🔥 more here ->

What is the key to building a breakout consumer co? It’s deceptively simple. It’s all about generating user love In the product, in the brand, in the story, in the ethos Can you generate user love at scale? Yes you can

Have you ever done a documentary? …they asked nope! but there’s a first time for everything 😁 playing hypewoman to Jae Lee Twelve Labs (twelvelabs.io) for Korean TV, stay tuned

this is Elon’s era and we’re all just living in it

people who *aren’t* early tech adopters are sending me this ad, that’s how i know it’s working Dmitry Shevelenko Ryan Foutty 👏

ditto

This was a fun watch, especially since TK hasn’t been in public eye in recent years ultimate founder mode youtu.be/8j7lwauJN2s

What is a really really hard problem to work on in #AI? My own answer is Spatial Intelligence - a technology that could empower and enable countless possible use cases in creation, design, learning, AR/VR, robotics, and beyond. It’s a real honor that my cofounders Justin Johnson

I remember going to an AI talk by Fei-Fei Li about 7 years ago, long before this GenAI wave... it was mind blowing Super exciting to have NEA involved in World Labs and with such a stellar team: Justin Johnson Christoph Lassner Ben Mildenhall

I've been using Perplexity since Jan 2023 but I still get that magical moment... this is just so awesome and useful, can't believe it's this easy to find out facts Like this morning, doing some digging on Stripe early history and how the startup avoided the commoditization

Cal bears gotta get to #1 here 🐻 💪 I’d really like to see my alma mater UC Berkeley at the top of this leaderboard!!!

Excited to make two announcements today! -- 1. We're partnering with Accenture to power their LLM Switchboard and >$1B in Gen AI Deployments. 2. We're launching Airlock, our LLM Compliance Automation tool.

brevity is a virtue

And here we go! Webflow has been a supporter of the creative community since day 1! The ecosystem they have built for creative professionals and agencies has been inspiring to observe from the outside looking in. Today Contra is longer on the outside. Im thrilled to

Congrats to my girl Deena Shakir on publishing this gem of a book to inspire the next generation of girls to build, lead and take that CEO seat Leena Mo, CEO 👏👏👏❤️

absolutely nothin happening in tech, slow news day