Tag: Silicon Valley
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Can GPT-5 beat the reigning champion, Elon’s Grok 4? I ran them through 3 tests to find out. When Grok 4 came out last month, I asked it 3 real world questions that I actually needed the answer to. Grok 4 crushed it, scoring an A-. Can GPT-5 do even…
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“$800k ARR…is that contracted or live?” Most investors never ask this question. They’re making a big mistake. Whether you’re an investor or a founder, you have to understand the difference between contracted and live revenue. Tl,dr: Contracted ARR is signed revenue, live ARR is actual money you’re billing. Focus on…
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I never show this spreadsheet to anyone. 54 top investors. This is my secret weapon. My money is no greener than anybody else’s. So if I want to invest in the best founders, I need to bring something else to the table. This spreadsheet makes it happen. Meet “The Sheet”…
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Figma goes public today. Seed investors were locked up for 12 years. That’s a long time to wait! But here’s why we should be grateful for lockups… Every company goes through hard times. If we were allowed to dump our shares, we probably would! Then, we’d miss out on enormous…
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+ Angel Investing, Business, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, FIG, Figma, Finance, Investing, IPO, Money, NASDAQ, Silicon Valley, Startups, Stock Market, Stocks, Tech, Venture Capital+
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Open source dominates server environments and databases. But will open source win AI? This morning, I investigated which models are most popular among developers… America’s Next Top Model There’s no one place to go to definitively determine which models are most popular among developers. But one strong indicator comes from…
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+ AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Entrepreneur, LLM, Silicon Valley, Startups, Tech, Technology+
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Every pre-revenue startup is raising at $30-40 million right now. Making money on these bets will be next to impossible. A year or two ago, a company with little or no revenue might have raised at a $10 million cap. Not anymore. The price is going to be over $30…
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+ Angel Investing, Business, Finance, Investing, Money, Personal finance, Silicon Valley, Startups, Stock Market, Stocks, Tech, VC, Venture Capital+
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I just cut 16 hours of work down to 151 seconds…a 400X productivity improvement. Let me show you how to do it yourself… This afternoon, I’m meeting a startup that makes self-driving forklifts. I want to be well-informed for my meeting, so I did a little research. I don’t know…
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+ AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Finance, Investing, Self-Driving, Silicon Valley, Startups, Tech, Technology, Venture Capital, Writing+
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Cyan Banister is one of the greatest investors of all time. She’s backed SpaceX, Uber, and more. This morning, she put the word out: hackers could be coming for our brains. Cyan calls it CogSec, and I think the name will stick. Robert Scoble, the earliest of early adopters, seconded…
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+ AI, Angel Investor, Artificial Intelligence, Brain, Cybersecurity, Elon, Elon Musk, Finance, Hacker, Hacking, Investing, Money, Neuralink, Science, Security, Silicon Valley, Startups, Tech, Technology, Venture Capital+
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Elon just dropped Grok Companions, and they look an awful lot like an AI girlfriend. This morning, I chatted with one of the Companions, Ani. Let’s see what she can do… Meeting Ani Ani, a tarted up anime character, sashayed across my screen suggestively. It’s pretty clear what Ani is…
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+ AI, Artificial Intelligence, Elon, Grok, LLM, Romance, Silicon Valley, Society, Startups, Tech, Technology, Writing, xAI+
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A new model from China claims to be the best in the world. But can Kimi beat the best from America? This morning, I tested it to find out… Kimi is open source and can be used to create powerful AI agents. The startup that built Kimi, Moonshot AI, claims…
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+ AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, China, Grok, LLM, Silicon Valley, Startups, Tech, Technology, Venture Capital, xAI+
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