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Bocar Dia

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Builder | GTM leader | Investor. Padawan. Lover of technology, innovation, people, travel, wine, sneakers, basketball.

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Auren Hoffman(@auren) 's Twitter Profile Photo

a healthy society is one where the growth in the number of players exceeds the growth in the number of referees

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Ben Tossell(@bentossell) 's Twitter Profile Photo

All the updates from Open AI Dev Day
Open AI’s dev day was terrrrriffic. Sam Altman launched a new language model, with tons of added powers. Then announced a bunch of other models to API. Took some sweet time to chat with Satya (and poke him about OpenAI and Microsoft’s…

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Ed Sim(@edsim) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The hardest part about startups and investing is that just when you think you have it all figured out, you don’t.

As much as I Ionged for experience, that very same wisdom can bite you in the ass. There are so many smart founders and investors and as soon as one thing works…

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Harry Stebbings(@HarryStebbings) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Seed pricing is worse than it has ever been.

Multi-stage funds are paying up like never before.

WTF happens from here.

This is an absolute banger with Ed Sim on the three types of seed round today, pricing, growth rounds, M&A and so much more...

Top 7 Lessons: 👇

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Andrej Karpathy(@karpathy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

With many 🧩 dropping recently, a more complete picture is emerging of LLMs not as a chatbot, but the kernel process of a new Operating System. E.g. today it orchestrates:

- Input & Output across modalities (text, audio, vision)
- Code interpreter, ability to write & run…

With many 🧩 dropping recently, a more complete picture is emerging of LLMs not as a chatbot, but the kernel process of a new Operating System. E.g. today it orchestrates: - Input & Output across modalities (text, audio, vision) - Code interpreter, ability to write & run…
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Boris Wertz(@bwertz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Really great talk by Bill Gurley on how regulatory capture is destroying the innovation we need so badly - please watch! The All-In Podcast

youtu.be/F9cO3-MLHOM

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Ed Sim(@edsim) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Founders, 👏 - you made it - you raised your Series A in a difficult environment, first board meeting is coming + new investor is fired up wanting to ramp up sales which means your team.

Do yourself a favor + don’t get happy ears and blow all your 💰 in first few quarters.…

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Felix Brockmeier(@felixbrockm) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Launching Lemon Agent! 🍋 github.com/felixbrock/lem…
🤝 Separation of tasks and human-in-the-loop interactions
🌌 Unlimited configuration options
👀 UI flexibility
🎨 [Soon] Model & framework agnostic operations

Huge thanks Iván Martínez, homanp and Stan Girard for your input!

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Matt Dupree(@philosohacker) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Been thinking a lot about UIs lately while doing customer research for ATLAS and I've concluded that UIs almost always get worse over time. Companies may hire better designers or PMs to avoid this, but their UIs will inevitably become harder to use anyway. Here's why.🧵

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ATLAS(@join_atlas_ai) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Check out our virtual conference on AI/LLMs and product strategy on July 31st : cfe.dev/events/the-fut…

We'll have AI-founders, investors, and product speakers Allison Pickens, Vijay Umapathy, Madeleine Reese, zack hendlin, Wenyu Zhang, Jonathan Pedoeem AND AI-powered comedy from ComedyBytes!

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Rick Zullo(@Rick_Zullo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

1) As long as I’ve been an investor, VCs have leaned on revenue multiples to justify valuations

We’re now seeing these multiples are useless predictors of long-term value for a company

Learn why we are focused on future cashflow generation in our latest
medium.com/@EqualVentures…

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Techmeme(@Techmeme) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Toronto-based Cohere, which builds LLMs for users, raised $270M led by Inovia Capital, a source says at a $2.1B to $2.2B valuation, taking its funding to ~$445M (Bloomberg)

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
techmeme.com/230608/p23#a23…

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Emergence Capital(@emergencecap) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We are delighted to announce that we have led AudiencePlus's $5 million financing round as the company begins to transform the marketing automation industry. Congratulations Anthony Kennada and team on this important milestone!
emcap.com/thoughts/welco…

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Tomasz Tunguz(@ttunguz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Founder-led sales are sales engineering sales, not account executive sales.

As a company scales, founders transition sales to others. The default behavior is for founders to pass sales to account executives. What if they passed it to sales engineering?

Founder-led sales are sales engineering sales, not account executive sales. As a company scales, founders transition sales to others. The default behavior is for founders to pass sales to account executives. What if they passed it to sales engineering?
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Harry Stebbings(@HarryStebbings) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Biden dropping into this meeting reminds me of growth investors checking in at the board to remind the founder to “increase sales”… 😂

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Zach Coelius(@zachcoelius) 's Twitter Profile Photo

As I have traveled around the world over the last year a lot of folks from other countries have been asking me what the hell went wrong in San Francisco.

The city so many called their favorite city in the US has become obviously broken.

Here is what I have been telling them:

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Techmeme(@Techmeme) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Sources: Toronto-based AI startup Cohere is close to securing $250M in funding from backers including Nvidia and Salesforce, at a ~$2B post-money valuation (@georgenhammond / Financial Times)

ft.com/content/84bfc4…
techmeme.com/230502/p33#a23…

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Matt Dupree(@philosohacker) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Seeing lots of folks overstate the impact and will have an GUIs. Jarvis didn't make GUIs obsolete for Tony Stark. GPT-X won't make them obsolete for us. Here's a thread with some cases where chat-based UIs don't make sense, no matter how smart the AI chat-bot is. 🧵

Seeing lots of folks overstate the impact #ChatGPT and #AI will have an GUIs. Jarvis didn't make GUIs obsolete for Tony Stark. GPT-X won't make them obsolete for us. Here's a thread with some cases where chat-based UIs don't make sense, no matter how smart the AI chat-bot is. 🧵
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