Hey Car Dealership Guy - do you think US car sales and service will ever get to 30% penetration? e-commerce took 30yrs (Amazon founding in '94 as starting point imho), how long will autos take? Reminder: Tesla is already 100% as is Carvana...

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From WRAL TechWire, the Triangle Tweener Fund invested $804k across 15 companies in the 4th quarter of 2024. Scot Wingo Robbie Allen LoanWell Plantd Murphy's Naturals 🦟 Cycle Labs Remoov Ndustrial Gemini Sports Analytics Allstacks MuukTest wraltechwire.com/2024/07/10/tri…

Big opportunity for entrepreneurs. The car industry is a $1.2T industry, yet only 25% of dealers have confidence in their tech vendor’s data insights. According to a recent Cox Auto survey, the insights dealers are *actually* satisfied with: 45% – In-house data (most) 38% –

Hey Car Dealership Guy , thought you'd find this funny. Got my son's car serviced at a local (RDU, NC) dealer and the service advisor said right after they recovered from CDK they got hit with crowdstrike and there was only one station out of like 25 that they could check customers

The YC approach on how to sell:

Looking forward to speaking at the ACG Sept 12th meeting about startups and our local startup ecosystem with a focus on venture funding trends for the Triangle. acg.org/raleighdurham/…

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Salesforce acquires Own (fka OwnBackup) for $1.9B! Does that mean we’re back? While I wish it did, nope.  This acquisition is not much more than half of the 2021 valuation. Here’s what this does mean: 2024 has been, in tech and start-ups, one of the, if not THE most

Walmart used LLMs to improve 850m piece of data in their product catalogs, something that would have taken them 100x the headcount / time to do without LLMs

Jim Harbaugh knows what to do when he has a question.

Rest in Peace Lord Vader

Enjoyed contributing with Jan Davis to GrepBeat 's "In the soup" pod hosted by . In this episode we talked about the ups and downs of investment cycles. It's a ~20min quick hit packed full of info! grepbeat.com/2024/09/11/in-…

Here's a deep dive into my 4-week post-Spiffy learnings as I dig into AI:

Thoughts Car Dealership Guy ?! ai/fake news or fer realz?!

Hey Aravind Srinivas or Perplexity - quick feature request - I'm a 100% perplexityer now and my past search engine had a feature where I could splat it a tracking number and it would save me the trouble of navigating the fedex/ups/dhl/usps sites and give me the tracking