It's a crazy testament to the power, influence, and savvy of the hyperscalers that they managed to capture such ownership in the next gen disruptors: Amazon and Google in Anthropic, Microsoft in OpenAI. Puts Meta / Zuck's spending imperative in perspective.

Warm weather in SF is so in and so are builder breakfast clubs 🫶! Lmk if you want to join the one we’re hosting next week cc April Underwood Jessica Verrilli Katie Kirsch

Thanks Carina Oriel ✨ for the wonderful evening chatting about how to help founders navigate some of the toughest moments SimpleClosure, Carta

Setting up for Builder Breakfast Club. 30 engineers and founders incoming…. 💚 Adverb Ventures April Underwood Gary Pesola Katie Kirsch

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It's not everyday Jessica Verrilli jumps up on a chair, but we take our work seriously for the SF breakfast builder club, so what did you expect! Huge thanks to friends like Michael Mizrahi, Kayvon Beykpour, Pablo Jablonski, Aaron Wasserman, and so many others who made the morning special cc April Underwood, Katie Kirsch, Adverb Ventures

It sometimes is overwhelming when we see what used to take years to build now take seconds, but don't let that stop you from leveraging this tech wave April Underwood

While tech-enabled services haven’t been central to venture’s narrative, we’re drawn to founders challenging assumptions and redefining the fundamentals cc April Underwood Jessica Verrilli

.April Underwood on what we look for in founders: "I think the kids call it rizz these days"

Breakfast of champions Will McCarthy & Jared Rosner 😇

The sounding alarm from April Underwood who built her career in software over the past tech waves