Venture Capital
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Silicon Valley Bank bears responsibility for its demise, but it symbolizes a Silicon Valley reality that is very different from the myth — and the ultimate cause is tech itself.
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Uber represents something new: a company that is different than incumbents because of technology, yet not itself a tech company — just like the Venture Fund is not a VC.
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Venture Capital has been transformed by a surprising source: Amazon. Ultimately, no industry is safe from the impact of the Internet.
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An Interview with Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes About Atlassian and AI
An interview with Atlassian founder and CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes about building Atlassian and why he is optimistic about AI.
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An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman About DevDay and the AI Buildout
An interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about the infrastructure buildout, expanding ChatGPT, and the vision that unites it all.
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Google and Windsurf, Stinky Deals, Chesterton’s Fence and the Silicon Valley Ecosystem
Windsurf’s founders and IP are going to Google in the latest stinky deal that is downstream of regulator’s recklessly messing the startup ecosystem.
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xAI Raising Money, xAI and Oracle, Xbox = Windows
Everyone wants xAI to exist, but is anyone actually using it? Then, Xbox as it once existed is dead; it’s just Windows now.
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President Trump, Take Two; Big Tech, Little Tech, Chips, and Hardware; Elon Musk’s Triumph
President Trump is once again president-elect; the best way to figure out the effect his administration will have on tech is to look at the policies of his first administration. Then, Elon goes all in and wins, and changes how we should think about the Twitter acquisition.
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An Interview with Gregory Allen About Transforming U.S. Defense
An interview with Gregory Allen about U.S. defense and the role that tech plays in overhauling what is a very dysfunctional process.
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Instacart IPO, Instacart Conflict, Arm’s IPO Pop
Instacart is two different companies in one: the tech company is dependent on but in some respects in conflict with the logistics one. Then, ARM pops.