For all the improvements in AI, autocorrect is almost always wrong when it chooses between “we’re” and “were.” It’s true across applications and I wonder why this is the one that is so hard to make the right inference from context. A flip of a coin would be more accurate.

This tech employment recession is painful, but helpful to put in historical context. In the last two years, Bay Area tech employment is down by 36k jobs, roughly 3.7%. In the four years of the so-called Dot Com bust, the Bay Area lost 193k tech jobs, or 26.9%.

We share the story of our partnership with and support of Vannevar. Nini Hamrick talks about how she & co-founder Brett Granberg have worked together with Costanoa Ventures #BuilderOps. This team is truly #missiondriven. It's an honor to be in their corner. lnkd.in/gYs7Z6EQ

“There it is, Jenkins, the Wi-Fi password.”

And we were in Oprah's kitchen. Who knew?!

Wait. The IPO market is back?!

More Fine Tuning, more better. Thrilled to welcome ⁦⁦OpenPipe⁩ to the ⁦Costanoa Ventures⁩ family. Open Pipe: fine tuning built for Developers openpipe.ai

This is more about leadership than about middle management. In fact, it’s more about the focus and framing of work and how we treat people. Reading it is a good grounding for the work day. nytimes.com/2024/04/11/opi…

Huge congrats to John Doyle & CapeWireless on today's big announcement! Excited to continue supporting the team on their mission to revolutionize mobile privacy and security. If their mission aligns with yours, check out their open roles: bit.ly/3xIVxeN

Dan Gilbert is a one man economic development machine and a national treasure. wsj.com/real-estate/co…

Now Showing: “Not Actually About You at All”. Critics say, “Stop projecting yourself onto everything.”

We're thrilled StackHawk has been named 'Most Innovative API Security' in the Global Infosec Awards at #RSAC 2024! We're excited to keep pushing the boundaries of innovation and help organizations build software more securely. Thanks CyberDefenseMagazine! hubs.ly/Q02wdZxY0

This article gave me a visceral sense of the regular loss from those who serve and the enormous sacrifice of those who protect us. An important read. On this Memorial Day, I give thanks to and for service members past, present and future. nytimes.com/2024/05/26/opi…

There's near infinite opportunity to build AI-native business applications. Nearly every business process, function & vertical can be reinvented using the capabilities of LLMs which can ingest and synthesize images, text, audio & video. More here: bit.ly/3WjHXqA