“The safest modus operandi is to assume your last [venture capital] fundraise is indeed your last one for a while. Leverage AI where you can to ease pressure on [cash] burn and to create efficiency gains.”
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Custom GPT Strategy Reveals Company Recruitment and Business Models
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I spoke w/ the founder of @madebymonks_ about building a custom GPT based on his personality and what it reveals about the company's overall AI strategy — from recruitment efforts and team structures to new business models. Link to my @Digiday story about WesleyBot in the .
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Article on Anysphere, the AI startup behind Cursor
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I wrote about your favorite AI startup’s favorite AI startup: @anysphere
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Zepto accused of dark practices in Indian startup ecosystem
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Zepto is the king of dark practices. It is the most shady startup I have seen in the Indian startup ecosystem.
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AI Product Demos and Market Adoption Interest Gauge
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Yes, which is why it’s confusing to me that so many AI demos go after this use case, tweet was inspired by wanting to gauge level of excitement for this product
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Too Many Broken AI Product Demos Flooding the Market
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Agreed, tweet inspired by seeing way too many demos of this kinda product that doesn’t work super well
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Scale AI leaderboard showcases AI development progress
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Cool leaderboard by @alexandr_wang and team @scale_AI
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Startup Visa Adoption Lags Behind Points-Based Immigration Policy
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Many people who would qualify would also qualify for points-based immigration, which is slightly preferable. I hear adoption of the startup visa is less than expected. As always, I have vanishingly little to say publicly about immigration policy, but have an open inbox.
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AI Image Generation, Jobs, and the Future of Creative Technology
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Coming soon. We talk:
— Varun Mayya (@waitin4agi_) 4 avril 2025
– Indian 4o Image gen usage (some numbers too)
– Design jobs
– Miyazaki's, AI, and the evolving nature of art
– How should founders think about building rn (wrappers or not)
– Is prompt engineering a real job?
– Evolution of code
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Sub to YT! pic.twitter.com/XAKxgT88rFComing soon. We talk: – Indian 4o Image gen usage (some numbers too)
– Design jobs
– Miyazaki's, AI, and the evolving nature of art
– How should founders think about building rn (wrappers or not)
– Is prompt engineering a real job?
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AI Companies Growing Faster Than Previous SaaS Generation
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But Stripe actually benchmarked the current generation AI leaders against previous generation SaaS leaders, and empirically, they are growing much faster—in terms of real revenue from real companies/customers—than SaaS was in some very good years.