His 5 years as Lytro CEO taught him when to scrap the strategy, among other lessons, before selling it to Google in 2018. He then ran the majority of Google’s consumer-facing subscription services, with tens of millions of customers across 150+ countries.
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a16z-Backed Entrepreneur: From Netscape to Ning Success
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His ties to @a16z run deep: @bhorowitz trained him as a PM at Netscape in the ‘90s, and soon after @pmarca & Ben hired him as the first Loudcloud employee. As CEO of @Ning in the early days of social, he led its successful transition from ads to a premium subs business model.
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Startup Mentorship: Navigating Critical Business Obstacles
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Founders often need guidance from someone who’s personally navigated many of the abstract, harder-to-define, but nevertheless critical obstacles that inevitably arise in any startup. @jasonrosenthal is a prime example of that someone.
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Scaling Startups: Challenges After Achieving Product-Market Fit
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No matter how well a founder maps their idea maze, the road to product-market fit is difficult. Getting there brings new challenges: incumbents put a target on your back, recruiting and hiring needs to accelerate, prioritization becomes more complex, etc.
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Improving AI Prompts with Context Memory
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Oh shoot you're right. It should be in the prompt. I think adding something like "Take into account previous tasks you have already completed: {context}" in the prompt should work. I don't have time now, but will test and fix.
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Context Agent Function Integration with Pinecone Vector Database
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Oh I left one comment I should have deleted it seems. The context agent function pulls from pinecone!
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SMEs Building Trust Through Data Warehouse Insights
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SMEs is creating a culture of trust by sharing data & insights. Here are some of the conditions that could be in place for SMEs to derive value from a data warehouse. Source @techmenttech Link https://
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Trending AI Models and Datasets Week April 2026
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Trending models, datasets and spaces of the week on http://
hf.co. Congrats to @cerebras @databricks @BananaDev_ (April Fool) @AnthropicAI @nomic_ai @Picsart @AlibabaGroup (excited about text to video!!) and all others! -
Navigate Economic Challenges: Five Key Business Growth Strategies
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In this recent @Medium article, Alteryx President and CRO @pshansen2 explains the five most important things a business should do to successfully navigate a challenging economy. Read her advice on how to be proactive and invest in future growth:
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Design Thinking: Innovation Methodology for Engineering and Technology
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What Is Design Thinking? https://
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… @ASMEdotorg @3DSNorthAmerica @cyngn @MargaretSiegien @3DSdelmia @3DStherese @Cindybolt61 @fogoros @DrFerdowsi @CRudinschi @PawlowskiMario @IIoT_World @MEngineeringMag #Science #Engineering #Technology #SET