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Foundation Sprint Breaks Into Top 10 All Time Posts
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B2C Models Fail at Venture Scale in Modern Tech
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I don’t think that’s true at all. They just k own where the big opportunity lie, and b2c basically never works for venture scale these days.
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YC’s Shift Away from B2C Investments Signals Market Changes
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YC's returns in B2C have been legendary, so it says a lot when they so rarely bet on B2C businesses these days.
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Why VCs Make Few B2C Bets Today
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They still make B2C bets, but very few. This makes sense because there have been very few consumer breakout startups in the last decade. Consumer is hard. Much more here:
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Bolt and Lovable Founders Discuss AI Marketing Strategies
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I've got the founders of Bolt and Lovable coming on the pod next week. You're specifically curious about how they use AI for marketing?
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Training AI Models: Body Awareness and Physical World Capabilities
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"In the early days of @Anthropic, we taught the model, 'Hey, you actually don't have a physical body to operate in the physical world.' But at the same time, it was being trained on data that told the model, 'This is how you set an alarm.' And so the model would get extremely… pic.twitter.com/I9BoZ786s1
— Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan) 12 février 2025"In the early days of @Anthropic
, we taught the model, 'Hey, you actually don't have a physical body to operate in the physical world.' But at the same time, it was being trained on data that told the model, 'This is how you set an alarm.' And so the model would get extremely -
Y Combinator’s Recent B2B AI Investment Focus
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Where @ycombinator is betting these days based on the three most recent batches: B2B AI
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How to Secure Investor Agreement on Company Valuation
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How did you get investors to agree to an valuation? Impressive.
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15 Most Capital-Efficient Startups: Deel, Benchling, Gusto Lead
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The 15 Most Valuable Y Combinator Companies Yet to IPO
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The 15 most valuable @ycombinator companies that have yet to IPO