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Tobyn Sowden

@tobyns

Founder + CEO @rdbrck (@leadpages @shiftbrowser @delivra @animoto & others). Once acquired, now acquiring. #tech, #startups, #venturecapital, #yyj + #dadlife.

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Early TED insights: the conversation about AI is center stage. Slightly more concern and apprehension about the advent of AI and what harm it could cause compared to what I would have expected (unbridled optimism). 🤔😬

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I guarantee you this isn’t accurate. They are likely seeing Hosts that are short term property managers and incorrectly assuming the Host owns all the connected units. Will be interesting to see impacts on long term rentals and also condo sale prices. timescolonist.com/local-news/les…

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With Safari Private Relay and Chrome's new IP Protection features this causes all your web traffic to be routed through Apple and Google controlled infra. Will this be a bad thing for the open web? Cloudflare Matthew Prince 🌥 Shouldn't we at least have WARP as an alternative?

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I have to imagine that sama no longer has fiduciary responsibilities to OpenAI and no non-compete / non-solicit. In Canada we call this dropping the gloves.

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Bing - sama’s new index for training data. Damn. If DOJ breaks up Google and MS gets Sam/Greg/team .. what is stopping them?!?!!

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Tofino: we'd rather have wealthy people own empty homes for their occasional use than allow short term rentals that fuel our tourism economy and allow access for many more. 🤦‍♂️ westerlynews.ca/news/tofinos-c…

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Canada to Entrepreneurs in the 2024 Federal Budget: "we want you to build great businesses.. but just not TOO big.. or we'll tax the snot out of you. Please don't fail and please don't succeed.. too much" 🤨🤦‍♂️

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Microsoft and Bing have been clearing the deck of search ad syndicators to make room for a big partner: SearchGPT 👀🤪

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Great ChatGPT experience this weekend - my prompt: "I'm DJing a hockey game for U11, we need a 20 song playlist with starting times for the best bits of songs, can you provide that list please?" Gave me the list plus the start time and reason for start time (e.g. chorus, guitar

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Canadian government is missing opportunities to double down on previously announced initiatives like flow through shares (FTS) for r&d in AI startups and IP box for commercialization. Both incentivize building & staying in Canada. theglobeandmail.com/business/econo…

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I feel like I know a secret that no one knows, and that secret is: Replit ⠕ Once you've spent an hour with Agent 3, you'll realize that software development won't ever be the same.