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erikashaffer

@erikashaffer

Communications pro @MadronaVentures, mom to teen girls, passionate cook, biker, runner, reader and country music lover

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calendar_today23-04-2008 03:38:21

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The commentary from NBC Sports on the dauphine was cringingly embarrassing - it's akin to getting parents of summer league swimmers to commentate on Olympic swimming. please fix before Tour de France™ !

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Congrats to Truveta and Terry Myerson + team on raising $95M for ambitious vision to aggregate data across healthcare systems geekwire.com/2021/seattle-s… via GeekWire

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Great story about ☔🔥☔ - a wonderful new(ish) voice in #Seattle tech investing! How becoming a venture capitalist helped this Seattle startup vet turn his life around  geekwire.com/2021/becoming-… via @GeekWire

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possibly ironic for a state having issues with mail in voting? wraltechwire.com/2022/03/24/dri… But I know some teens and 20-somethings who think this is legal everywhere already . .

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In this week's episode of Founded & Funded, Investor ishani ummat speaks w/ Runway Co-founder Cristóbal Valenzuela about how he got the idea, why he decided to build a startup rather than join a big tech company & how he's "leapfrogging" an entire industry. bit.ly/3r46gdq

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Jon Turow of Madrona joins John Furrier on set to chat about the latest news from CloudNativeSecurityCon 2023. #CNSCon #theCUBE #EnterpriseTech Watch all of theCUBE's coverage: thecube.net/events/linux-f…

Jon Turow of <a href="/MadronaVentures/">Madrona</a> joins <a href="/furrier/">John Furrier</a> on set to chat about the latest news from CloudNativeSecurityCon 2023. #CNSCon #theCUBE #EnterpriseTech

Watch all of <a href="/theCUBE/">theCUBE</a>'s coverage: thecube.net/events/linux-f…
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Yes we are investing a lot in #generativeAI - here is where we see opportunities for startups to build (or at least some of them!)

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We're thrilled to announce Madrona’s investment in Visual Layer, founded by Danny Bickson, Amir Alush, and Carlos Carlos Guestrin. Danny and Carlos are 2nd-time Madrona founders, and we’re excited to welcome them back to the Madrona family and to welcome Amir! bit.ly/41LGzxI

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Check out our new market map of the tools that are coming together to build #generativeAI applications. Palak Goel Jon Turow Matt McIlwain have been working in this area and talking to founders and builders - great insight for those looking to build these applications!

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great podcast - curious about vector databases and how Chroma has grown so quickly? Jeff talks about their pivot and building an engaged community for Chroma

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As the #GenAI landscape expands, discussions of the next big #AI model dominate the scene. But are we overlooking the most crucial aspect? In Matt McIlwain's latest blog, he delves into the most important model required to win in AI: The business model. bit.ly/3OVCcwx

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Dario Amodei just said the quiet part out loud: The real AI moats aren't in chatbots. They're in medicine and the physical world. Anyone can wrap a model in a pretty UI. Very few can navigate FDA trials, biological complexity, and regulatory mazes. The biggest AI companies