Author: tremendousblog
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“You’re going to see a lot of emerging managers shut down in the next few years,” said a VC I met with this morning. She couldn’t stay long — she was heading to California to fundraise. The down market is hitting emerging managers hard. These VC’s are on their first…
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Corporate raider Carl Icahn has lost $15 billion since the release of an exposé by Hindenburg Research. That’s over $900 million a day. The Hindenburg Report Hindenburg claims that Icahn’s holding company, Icahn Enterprises, is structured like a Ponzi scheme. Repeated share sales support an unusually high 28% dividend. In…
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Every now and then, I meet a hardworking founder with some great tech. But I know I’ll never invest in their business. Despite founders’ best intentions, some companies develop serious problems. Those problems can make a startup untouchable for investors. We put those companies in the “too hard bucket.”* And…
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The year is 2166. I am 180 years old and my body is beginning to fail. Time to upload my memories. Advancements in biology could soon have us living much longer than ever before. But even if our bodies can’t reach immortality, perhaps our minds can. Imagine a future in…
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+ AI, Artificial Intelligence, Being, Computer Science, Consciousness, Futurism, GPT-4, Longevity, Philosophy, Startups, Tech+
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Nearly a quarter of all New York City office space is vacant. Now, the pain is spreading to the city’s budget. From a report out this morning in Bloomberg: The atrium at 60 Wall Street was once a thoroughfare for thousands of Deutsche Bank AG employees. These days it’s eerily…
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It was lunchtime on the set, and I knew exactly where I was headed. It was time to eat the best dumpling in New York. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! This is Shu Jiao Fu Zhou, an institution in Manhattan’s Chinatown. This simple storefront serves tender dumplings, rich noodles…
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Last week, Google debuted its latest challenge to OpenAI: the new Bard. The waitlist is gone and Bard has some great new features. But can it beat GPT-4? Today, I put both bots to the test. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! Bard now integrates with search and maps and…
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ChatGPT is incredible. But this might be even better. Reid Hoffman’s new startup Inflection AI released an incredible tool last week. It’s great at answering your questions. But uniquely, it also asks you questions! After I heard about Inflection on a recent episode of This Week in Startups, I had…
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Last year, someone called my grandma pretending to be me. I was in trouble and needed money. It was a scam. What happens when that scam uses AI? Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! “AI is so intelligent it’s open to the bad players, the ones that want to trick…
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Tremendous 