When I was attending the Korea Conference, I spoke with Adam Torres of the #MissionMatters podcast about Blitzscaling and Korea: missionmatters.com/blitzscaling-a…

Llama Lounge, The AI Startup Event Series, Palo Alto lu.ma/llamaloungenov… ​Meet 10 AI Startups on the Demo Floor:
 ​- Amotions: AI-powered upskilling & coaching - Aomni: Actionable account intelligence for sales - Bizly: Copilot for customer events - Blueprint AI: Generate

Harry Stebbings Every competent person I’ve ever met does things quickly.

Wow. Big energy. Scary and beautiful moment at @TEDAI2023 as OpenAI’s Ilya Sutskever takes the stage, forecasting how AGI will build the next generation of AGI. Read that again: AI will build AI. Opportunity and dangers abound. This is a moment: we understand that we are building

I plan to be at this Llama Lounge event in Palo Alto. I have been to all of them this year. It's ground zero for the AI startup revolution. The companies and people at this event are on the bleeding edge of global innovation. Many will evolve to become the leading edge. And

Welcome to the Llama Lounge, AI Startup Series that I organize. See the final event of the year hosted by @HanaHaus Palo Alto, Nov 2. Is this the largest tech event in downtown Palo Alto since the iPhone launch? Drone video by the talented Space Monkey crew. #llamaLounge

Well that makes it simple.

As some know, I'm now a VC partner at Blitzscaling Ventures cofounded by Chris Yeh. Fun fact: I've known Chris for about two decades. I served on his board of Ustream when he was CEO. Here's a 2007 photo I took of him readying the streaming kit which would be provided to Robert Scoble

HP - I gotta admit I didn’t see this diversification strategy coming.

I logged into the Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚 author portal for an end-of-year review, and was pleased to see that @Blitzscaling is available in 18 languages around the world!

Thinking that Apple and Google will pipe their voice interfaces (Siri and OK Google) into a Perplexity-like search to finally make output truly helpful. Instead of "Here are some websites I found..."

If your startup has a good growth rate, no one will care who's on your board of advisors. If you don't have a good growth rate, no one will care who's on your board of advisors. Ergo, no one will care who's on your board of advisors.

Trying to use less plastic. Buying loose heads of lettuce, milk in cardboard, seltzer in cans, etc. Then I walk into Walmart, see a million plastic easter eggs for pennies each, and get a more than a bit disillusioned.

AI startup categories that are very crowded are: 1) AI Marketing 2) AI for recruiting 3) AI for getting hired 4) AI for creating content. Startups should stand out by having access to exclusive data, harness network effects, build in product-led-growth and more.

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Raising too much money is one of the greatest ways to take a team with high urgency and corrupt them with a sense of infinite time to figure things out.

If you obscure your sight when I land with a banner demanding cookie acceptance, I expect a "no cookies" button front and center, or I close the tab. So choose one: A) easy opt out, or B) few viewers.

Congrats to the Crossbeam team - very exciting day! crossbeam.com/crossbeam-and-…

Another day, another "All of your personal information was stolen..." letter in the US mail. Right into the recycling bin, as I already assume everything about me is available for sale...

Web3 as originally coined failed to materialize. The “AI web” is actually Web3.