Anyone have a Bluesky invite?

Why no one wants to fund your mobile game startup, and what to do about it. Nothing gets venture capitalists more excited than a platform shift. Why do early-stage investors love them, and how do they play out in the games business? 1. Clean slate: What works on the new

1) Real communities are built upon a shared belief of selflessness - how can I (as a member) help others expecting nothing in return Over the last 5 years, the community of Emerging Managers has been one of the most influential forces on my life - providing help, guidance and

Are any game developers I know currently using Inworld.AI?

would you hire a ceo whose entire executive team refuses to work with them ever again?

US Administration

SF: AI that replaces your sales team NYC: AI that replaces your cheekbones

Parakeet v2 is wildly impressive. Way faster than Whisper with great accuracy and speaker recognition.

SUPERHUMAN, VENTURE MATH AND WHY DISTRIBUTION TRUMPS ALL First things first - I'm a huge fan of Superhuman Mail and I don’t think this exit was a bad outcome. But one detail from today’s announcement of their acquisition by @Grammarly  jumped out at me: after a decade of building

This is really big. For the last 10 years, the pitch for an assistant has always been the same = What if you could have an assistant take actions for you? But nobody has done it, until now. So how has Hero been able to do this? We are doing 2 things differently from everyone

This is terrifying.

GOP: the second amendment protects us from tyranny Also GOP: YAY! Federal troops are being sent to control DC! GOP: we support the free market! Also GOP: it’s fine that NVIDIA and AMD are being illegally forced to pay 15% to the government to sell their products in China.

Whoever puts a user friendly consumer interface around the "Claude Code as your general purpose assistant that lives on your computer" use case is going to make a shit ton of money very quickly.

These people need to be mocked endlessly. Fuck anyone involved with this

Incumbent VCs and LPs who talk about VC in terms of "access" are optimising for a zero-sum, finite game. The drop in activity is a direct result of this becoming the dominant strategy (in terms of dollar volume and prevalence in discourse). In the incumbent's view, brand and

Seed investors: if a startup has gone through a16z speedrun 🧊, does it make you more likely or less likely to invest?

Uh oh

Seed is nuts right now. Legible team +hint of traction = $40M+ post

Same energy

This dude was almost dying of flu and still connected me with 3 founders on Wednesday. Hubert is a beast