Paul Murphy
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05-04-2007 10:04:20
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Caitlin Bolnick Rellas My reductive list of 'must haves' for B2B marketplaces:
1. High frag of supply or demand (ideally both)
2. Core discovery challenge (or other info arb) solved with 1st party data.
3. ~$100B+ GMV TAM or ~$10B+ rev TAM
4. Compelling wedge solution to break status quo behavior.
Today Mistral AI releases Mixtral 8x22B, 39B active parameter model under Apache 2.0 allowing anyone to use the model anywhere without restrictions.
Fluent in 5 languages, excels in math & coding, with a 64K token context for precision. More efficient than any 70B model.
READ: “3,337 Parisians were equipped with GPS trackers to record their journeys…for journeys from the outskirts of Paris to the center, the number of cyclists now far exceeds the number of motorists, a huge change from just 5 years ago.” Via Carlton Reid forbes.com/sites/carltonr…
“Trump says extremely dangerous things that have gotten people killed… I truly believe that if he gets reelected, there is a high likelihood this is the last election under our Constitution.”
Trump’s WH aide Cassidy Hutchinson
#TrumpIsNotFitToBePresident
Congrats on our Lightspeed portfolio company Mistral AI's latest AWS partnership.
All Mistral models now available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), EU-West-3 (Paris) regions.
Are you in LA on April 3rd? Join us for an evening of networking and a discussion with leaders in the frontier tech spaces, including Brian Schimpf, CEO of Anduril Industries, Dino Mavrookas, CEO of Saronic, and John Gedmark, CEO of Astranis Space Technologies. Find event details and register here:
About last week!🔥
Thrilled to have hosted a breakfast with Paul Murphy , Partner at Lightspeed Ventures leading European investments🌟, where we were got into sector trends, investment opportunities in the European ecosystem, and challenges/best practices in scaling operations. 🌏
This week our portco Mistral AI released Mistral Large, Small & le Chat, a demo of what you can build & deploy in your business.. & their first hyperscaler partnership w/ Azure
We led the biggest seed round in Lightspeed history on simple belief that they could build the best