Tag: Silicon Valley
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Jon McNeill took Tesla from $2 billion to $30 billion in revenue as one of Elon’s top lieutenants. His secret? Total focus on a few goals, and obsession with the customer. McNeill recently gave up his secrets in The Algorithm. This slim volume explains how Tesla went from struggling startup…
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+ Business, Elon, Elon Musk, Investing, Silicon Valley, Startups, Tech, Technology, Tesla, Venture Capital+
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Grok Connectors: Elon’s New Agentic System Excels on Simple Tasks, Falls Short on Complex Operations
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Elon recently dropped Grok Connectors, a new tool to manage your email, calendar and more. Grok excels at basic tasks like email summarization. But for more complex operations, it falls short. This morning, I ran Grok Connectors through a three round test. I had it do everything from inbox management…
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+ Business, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Investing, Silicon Valley, Startups, Technology, VC, Venture Capital, Writing+
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“I ended up putting $10 million into SolarCity, $70 million into Tesla, and $100 million into SpaceX. I literally had to borrow money for rent. It was a close call.” Elon Musk Elon Musk is the world’s richest man. But in 2008, he was almost broke. Both Tesla and SpaceX…
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+ AI, Elon, Elon Musk, Entrepreneur, Investing, Politics, Reading, Silicon Valley, SpaceX, Tech, Technology, Tesla, TSLA, xAI+
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Every investor is throwing money at AI. But if you’re building in an unsexy area, is raising money even possible? A frustrated consumer hardware founder recently posed this question to Reddit. He’s seeing VC’s rip huge checks into AI while he’s struggling to raise any money at all. But there’s…
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+ Angel Investing, Angel Investor, Business, Consumer, Engineering, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Founders, Hardware, Investing, Silicon Valley, Startups, Tech, Technology, Venture Capital+
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The window for Europe to catch up in AI isn’t just closing — it’s slamming shut. Europe doesn’t have any of the fundamental inputs for AI: Let’s zoom in on two critical factors: money and talent. Here how Europe is falling behind on both… The Capital Drought The largest company…
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+ AI, Artificial Intelligence, Austria, EU, Europe, European Union, Finance, Investing, OpenAI, Politics, Silicon Valley, Startups, Stocks, Tech, Technology, Venture Capital+
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Moonshot just dropped a new, more powerful Kimi: K2.6. I tested it this morning, and it’s the best open source model I’ve used yet. Moonshot claims that Kimi outperforms GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on some benchmarks. Better yet, Kimi is dirt cheap to run, making it a popular choice…
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+ AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, China, Developers, Finance, Investing, K2.6, Kimi, LLM, Moonshot AI, Open source, Silicon Valley, Technology, Venture Capital+
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Elon has quietly released Grok 4.3 Beta, xAI’s most powerful model yet. I tested it this morning, and it’s the best model I’ve ever used. I put 4.3 Beta through a grueling series of tests this morning. I had it analyze 5,000 venture deals, predict the future of the real…
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+ AI, Anthropic, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Claude, Elon, Elon Musk, Finance, Grok, Investing, LLM, Silicon Valley, Startups, Technology, Venture Capital, xAI+
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Google just dropped a new Gemini app for macOS. It excels on simple tasks like summarizing documents. But for complex jobs, Gemini is surprisingly weak. This morning, I ran the new Gemini app through a three round test. Let me show you where this app is strong, where it disappoints,…
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+ AI, Alphabet, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, gemini, GOOG, Google, Silicon Valley, Startups, Tech, Technology, Venture Capital+
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Headlines scream “American decline.” Peter Thiel isn’t buying it. In a panel discussion in Japan this week, Thiel argues that on technology, demographics, and economic dynamism, the U.S. isn’t just holding on — it’s pulling away. “On a relative basis, it seems to me that the U.S. is winning against…
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+ AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Iran, Japan, Silicon Valley, Tech, Technology, US, Venture Capital, Writing+
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New law firms will be 95% AI. They will bill at low, flat rates. And they will crush existing firms. Clients want lower, predictable bills. New AI-native law firms are in the best position to provide that. This new world will create a handful of winners. But most lawyers, firms…
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+ AI, Biglaw, Business, Law, Law Firms, Law School, Lawyers, Legal, Silicon Valley, Startups, Tech, Technology, Venture Capital+
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