Wow.

Props to Marcus Segal and the a16z speedrun 🧊 team for a well-produced demo day. Impressive startup pitches and a great chance to catch up with old friends.

Prediction: AI video slop will make live performance theatre/plays popular again. Broadway, local theatre companies. It will be Whole Foods organic for content.

Is anyone else already tired of AI-generated content? 🔹 When banner ads first emerged, they were eye-catching and animated. Then they became background noise. 🔹 Email newsletters once felt personal and unique. Now they’re promotions that flood our inboxes. 🔹 The first

Big week for Glacier, your neighborhood's favorite robot recycler. Named to the 2025 TIME Best Inventions List Launched with Waste Connections and Cox Enterprises to deploy a new robot at Penn Waste, the Taj Mahal of Recyclers in the Northeast, serving 60+ counties in

We’re in a weird era for startups where perception has become the moat. Raise early, get labeled a “category leader,” and that perception attracts capital, customers, and talent until it’s no longer perception. The irony is many kings were crowned long before they’d earned it.

VSC rocks October with 4 TIME Magazine Best Inventions of 2025 Congrats to Glacier Recycling, Future Family, AutoStore, and osteoboost! 🏆 ⚡ Groq – Jonathan Ross with Harry Stebbings Stebbings of 20VC sharing Groq’s journey scaling AI hardware 💡 Mayfield – Navin Chaddha

We love a good PR stunt.

Yea so JSX might cost $50 more but the selfie game is worth it.

Direct to audience media has been around for years. tiktok.com/t/ZP8AcAPPU/

Best outbound LinkedIn message of the year.

Gong-banger week at VSC ⚖️ Noetica – in Bloomberg analyzing $1B+ deal terms to uncover lender default defenses 🤖 AutoStore – warehouse robots helping Macy’s speed up deliveries in The Wall Street Journal 🤑 VSC – Two of our own team members made the front page of The Wall

Very cool solution for severe acne from some of the team of hims : businessoffashion.com/news/beauty/hi…

Too many percentages

Remember when ChatGPT was gonna kill Google?

This is cool

This week can be best summarized as BING BONG. 💉 Indomo unveils the ClearPen, an at-home acne treatment from the folks behind hims & hers 🫐 Fruitist – raises $150M from investors including Ray Dalio and JPMorgan 🏠 Reframe – builds climate-resilient homes 2.5x faster and at

Congrats team.

The hits keep coming for VSC companies. 💡 Inception Labs – Stanford professor+team raises $50M and builds a 10x faster and 10x cheaper AI coding model with the performance of Gemini Flash / Haiku. AI veterans Andrew Ng and Andrej Karpathy are among the investors, alongside

DOING GREAT BY DOING GOOD: Super proud of Eniac Ventures portco Hyper, the voice AI that saves lives. Now live w/ multiple police depts, handling up to 65% of non-emergency 911 calls, freeing dispatchers to focus on real emergencies, where every second counts.