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Happy Wednesday. On today's show: - @markgurman (Bloomberg) - @MerrillLutsky (Graphite) - @EricNewcomer (Newcomer) - @SwamiSivasubram (AWS) - @tomthecarrot (Raven) - @ryanjdaniels (Crosby) - @zaygranet (Bland) - Carter Reum (M13) See you on the stream.
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M13 Co-Founder @CarterReum says this tech cycle is different than others because startups aren't just competing with other startups, they're competing with some of the most well-funded companies in history. "The last cycle around consumer software and social networks was
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The biggest trend @sdianahu is seeing in this year's YC Demo Day batch is startups reaching seven figures in revenue just three months after launch. "It's become more common for companies to go from zero to seven figures in revenue within just three months." "The best companies
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BREAKING: @NoamShazeer is joining OpenAI
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.@markgurman says 2027 will be Apple's biggest product year in its history. Here's what he says is coming out: Spring 2027: iPhone 18, iPhone Air 2 Fall 2027: iPhone 20 (20th-anniversary iPhone), iPhone 20 Pro Max, Apple's second foldable phone
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BREAKING: The great country of Poland has made an $11M investment in ElevenLabs
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Raven Resonance CEO @tomthecarrot explains the 3 beachhead use cases that will allow AR devices to actually scale: "The first is micro interactions. This is something where you're in and out of the display within 5 to 10 seconds. Examples are next navigation direction, phone
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.@EricNewcomer says it's hard to have a super hard line against AI-generated writing, because there are some situations where it's probably better for both readers and writers: "I don't want AI-written stuff in our stories." "[But like], the fifth sentence in the third
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Jordi: The problem is, when you have good taste, and people pick up on it, they start blanket copying you. So there's an entire generation of companies whose visual identities just look the same — from their website to their actual products. Taste is something people curate
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We’re excited to introduce Taste Labs. Our mission is to end AI slop. We’re building the data and infrastructure layer to give AI models and agents taste. And today we’re coming out of stealth, announcing our $18.5M seed funding, co-led by @CRV and @AmplifyPartners AI has
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.@paultoo's "$100B question" challenges YC founders to think beyond their first $100M in revenue and envision what it would take to build a $100B company. YC Managing Partner @harjtaggar says the question reveals how much ambition and long-term vision founders in the batch
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YC Managing Partner @harjtaggar says many young founders are still too conservative with token spend and advises them to not skimp on token budget. "Token spend is more like rent. You don't say, 'I'm not moving to San Francisco to build my tech startup because the rent's
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"I wonder if AI is contributing to contagion and mimesis in a way we don't fully understand." — @lukeburgis "@tferriss was talking about how he had an 80% drop in sales of his books. And it coincided with 2022, when ChatGPT came out." "He was asking why somebody would read
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NEW blog post is up! "Has AI Already Killed How-To Nonfiction? Sales Trends, My Personal Data, and What It Might Mean for the Future" My head has been spinning after getting a spreadsheet roughly a week ago. Before we dive into my dirty laundry, let’s state the obvious:
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