Tag: Venture Capital
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Here are 3 startup ideas that need to die… 1. An app to find your friends and hang out. This is everyone’s first startup idea. It’s been tried a million times. Nobody wants it. When I want to see my friends, I just send them a text. That’s what most…
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“Our team of 12 just reached $10K ARR.” This is a huge red flag. Here’s why… Before you hit product-market fit, your company should be just the founders. That’s typically 2 to 4 people, all of whom own at least 10% of the company. You want this team to be…
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I looked at 21 deals this week. Just one got a check. Here’s a look inside my dealflow… Competition for Funding Is Fierce In the last week, I’ve looked at 21 companies. I made one new investment, a follow-on into one of my most successful startups. Normally, it takes me…
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Ken Griffin says we’re “almost certainly” in an AI bubble. Meanwhile, Micron is trading at 12 times earnings. Google is at 16. Is Big Tech dirt cheap? Of the 50 largest tech companies in the world by market cap, 15 are trading at a PE ratio of 25 or less.…
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A jet interceptor knocks a drone out of the sky. A robot mechanic fixes your car in minutes. These are just a few of the amazing startups in YC F26. Last month, I covered 3 awesome companies that were among the first F26 startups to launch. Since then, 89 more…
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If you want to know what the AI labs are building, look at their job postings. Here are three of the most unusual, from robotics engineers to Khmer language experts… OpenAI is Building a Consumer Device OpenAI is building out an entire Consumer Devices team. They’re hiring engineers with experience…
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I just made a powerful new tool to help my startups raise money. Here’s how it works… Building a Tool to Connect My Startups With Investors I’ve been having the same problem over and over lately. An awesome startup of mine is raising a round. I want to get them…
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We’ve reached artificial superintelligence in coding and math. Physics is next. AI Is Revolutionizing Coding and Math OpenAI recently solved 377 open math problems. That’s after cracking the Navier-Stokes equation just last month. Earlier this year, Claude found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities in common software. One was a 27-year-old bug…
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The Pyramids of Giza cost around 1% of Egypt’s GDP*. The AI buildout is over 3% of GDP. AI is bigger than the pyramids. The AI buildout also dwarfs the Manhattan Project, the Three Gorges Dam, and Chinese high-speed rail. All were under 1% of their country’s GDP. The only…
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14 companies founded in the 2020’s have hit $500M ARR. 13/14 have a technical founder. This is why I back builders. Analyzing the Top Startups of the 2020’s Here is a list of every company founded in the 2020’s that has hit $500M ARR, along with the founder and CEO’s…
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