Ramp's Broadway musical was the worst show I've ever seen. I'm still glad it exists.
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VCs are funding a concert business as a hedge against AI
As most VCs pour billions into AI startups, a select few are making a counterbet on a traditionally low-tech business: concerts.
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Vinod Khosla trashed a portfolio company — and the startup world has thoughts
Vinod Khosla's blunt comments about Factory drew backlash from some founders and tech VCs as the AI coding startup feuds with rival Cognition.
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I saw the Elizabeth Holmes doc. Shhhhhh I can't tell you about it.
"You Can See Everything" is a shocking and funny look at Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes' life. Here's what I can share without spoiling it.
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Get Access is building an exclusive club for startup investing
Backed by Sound Ventures, Get Access just raised $5 million at an $85 million valuation.
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Nvidia's robotics lab is becoming a founder factory
Nvidia robotics alums are launching AI startups as venture capital fuels a boom. The chip giant stands to benefit from their success.
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Noa Argamani is venturing out
Noa Argamani survived Hamas captivity. Two years after her rescue, she's joining the Israel-focused fund Vine Ventures.
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The startup trap that kept this longevity app founder stuck
Death Clock CEO Brent Franson says the most dangerous startups can be the ones that seem "pretty good."
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A former BCG partner says leaving consulting taught him how to build
Daniel Dantus spent eight years at BCG before transitioning to Juul. Here's his advice on building a career post consulting.
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We partied with VCs at an astrology app launch. On the menu: anxiety, love, and manifesting money.
We spent the night talking about AI, tech, and star signs at a launch party for the astrology app Lora.
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'Soar' wars: Inside two AI startups' messy fight over the same name
A founder known for viral antics sent a LinkedIn request to the CEO of Soar, a travel startup. Days later, he launched a rival — also called Soar.
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The head of one of the largest US endowments says OpenAI and Anthropic are in big trouble
The head of a major endowment says frontier labs won't be able to withstand competition from cheaper Chinese open-weight models.
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The 'ChatGPT for doctors,' OpenEvidence, was valued at $15 billion in a new funding round
The startup has raised nearly $800 million over the past year, from investors including Nvidia, Thrive Capital, Kleiner Perkins, a16z, and Sequoia Capital.
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What to know about the Horowitz Andreessen Academy, Silicon Valley's $42 million AI-era college alternative
What you need to know about the Horowitz Andreessen Academy, including how much it costs, who's teaching, and how to apply.
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Mark Zuckerberg's new AI nemesis: a 23-year-old dropout
Instinct, founded by 23-year-old Noah Shinn, captured investors' attention with rapid growth. Now, it's competing with Meta's Muse.
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2 friends pooled $2,000 of their own savings and turned it into a $30 million company by focusing on 'green-light activities'
Before Britt Baker and Laurie-Anne King even launched their financial-education business, they had $40,000 in sales.
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OpenAI takes its AI fight with Anthropic to Big Law
OpenAI launches Astra for Law, targeting AmLaw 200 firms with advanced legal AI tools. It's a bid to outpace Anthropic in the rivalry over legal work.
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A startup founder was arrested on charges of using VC money to pay for her house and a Caribbean wedding
A startup founder was arrested and charged with crimes for allegedly deceiving VCs and siphoning off funds to pay for her house and her wedding.
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This startup tried to take on Carta. It just announced it's shutting down.
Pulley, backed by Stripe and others, shuts down after seven years. Its biggest rival Carta is offering transition help to startups that used Pulley.
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This startup is putting OpenAI's AI to work inside law firms
OpenAI wants more lawyers to use its tech. To that end, it's partnered with a new startup to give it boots on the ground inside law firms.
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Nvidia hollowed out Groq. Here's what happened to the company left behind.
In a $20 billion deal last year, Nvidia took what made Groq special. The AI cloud startup left behind bets that special doesn't matter anymore.
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3 ex-Apple researchers want to make AI less awkward. Lightspeed, Accel, and Nvidia are giving them $50 million to do it.
A startup bringing emotional intelligence and conversation to AI models has just raised $50 million.
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What happens when you tell Jensen Huang you're quitting Nvidia
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang gives blunt feedback to departing employees, influencing startups like Flexion Robotics and INT21 with direct insights.
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Why everyone in tech is suddenly talking about LARPing
Techies online keep calling out "LARPers," criticizing founders perceived to be prioritizing clout over doing the actual work.
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Former Google chief scientist Jeff Dean is raising again for his new AI startup, seeking around a $50 billion valuation
Jeff Dean, former Google chief scientist, is raising another round of funding at a valuation of around $50 billion.
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Sergey Portnov steps back from Parimatch to launch SP Ventures
Sergey Portnov is launching SP Ventures, focusing on tech investments and advisory for future entrepreneurs.
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Salesforce has held talks to buy Listen Labs, an AI customer research platform, for around $2 billion
Salesforce has had talks to acquire Listen Labs, an AI startup that provides marketing research to brands, for around $2 billion.
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'There's no accountability': AI startups keep claiming huge revenue. VCs say the math is getting 'murky.'
VCs are taking a harder look at startups' recurring-revenue numbers.
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Read the pitch decks of 18 startups looking to disrupt dating apps and social networking that have raised millions
Social networking and dating startups used these pitch decks and memos to raise capital and ink deals.
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My startup worked out of 5 different spaces in a year. Here's how we found our dream office.
Sami Akkawi's startup, Petra Labs, began in his cofounder's apartment lounge. After a VC workspace and a WeWork, it found its dream office.
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Why everyone in tech is suddenly talking about Kazakhstan
Some of tech's biggest names are increasingly bullish on the Kazakh capital.
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Paul Graham says launching a startup is the 'least efficient' way to look cool
Graham also compared applying to YC to applying to elite universities like Harvard, and said that it is harder in some ways.
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OpenAI is about to make its biggest push yet into the legal industry
OpenAI wants to sell large enterprises on its technology. Now, it's taking its case to law firms.
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Why Nvidia wants Hugging Face — and a bigger say in the future of AI
Nvidia bought Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. The deal boosts Nvidia's open-source strategy, challenging OpenAI and Anthropic.
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See where aspiring entrepreneurs are showing the most interest in starting a business, ranked
Los Angeles County and the small Wyoming county of Sheridan don't share many similarities, except in one area: a lot of business applications.
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The mystery of a 'little red book' about insurance startup Corgi
The insurance company says it didn't make 'The Mission at Corgi.' An investor said he got a copy at Corgi's office.
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I didn't tell my Y Combinator batchmates I had a kid. I worried they'd think I wasn't hardcore enough.
Nicholas Charriere had a kid before starting at Y Combinator. "Saying 'I just had a kid and I love spending time with them' is not the vibe," he said.
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Bryan Johnson tackled human longevity. Now he wants dogs to live forever.
Tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson has become famous for his mission to help humans live forever. Now he wants to do the same thing for dogs.
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A startup founded by ex-DeepMind engineers wants to turn its customers into robot teachers
The CEO of robotics firm Reimagine Robotics said that the startup plans to build actually useful robots by turning its customers into teachers.
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Snyk was worth $8.5 billion. The price of its employees' stock has collapsed.
Snyk, a once-hot cyber startup poised to go public, has dramatically marked down the value of its employees' shares as it faces AI competition.
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A social media app that feels like the old Instagram days raised $21 million
In 2023, ex-Instagram employees launched a new app called Retro. It's one of many new social media apps taking on Big Tech platforms.
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The chips powering AI can take years to design. This startup says AI did it in 2 weeks.
Architect Labs says it used AI to rapidly design its Redwood chip, promising faster development. Researchers say manufacturing is the real test.
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Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13 billion
Nvidia has held talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13 billion as the chip giant expands its AI dealmaking.
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CEO Jensen Huang went on an AI deal spree in August. Nvidia plans to invest $18 billion more this fiscal year.
Nvidia invests billions in AI, with $18 billion committed to invest in AI model makers and infrastructure the rest of the fiscal year.
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This startup sold Wall Street on AI. Its existential challenge is doing it again.
Hebbia has relaunched its core product, Matrix, to help bankers and investors dig through piles of documents and create client-ready decks and memos.
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Everyone says software is dead. SaaS startup Linear just doubled its valuation to $2.5 billion.
Linear, which makes product management software, completed an employee tender offer at a $2.5 billion valuation.
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Grafana's $600 million milestone shows the AI boom is entering the messy reality of deployment
Grafana surpassed $600 million in annual recurring revenue as companies move AI into production, creating need for new tools, said CEO Raj Dutt.
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Elon Musk's former right-hand man at X will give you 30 minutes of business advice for $15,000
Nikita Bier, former X head of product, offers $15,000 business advice sessions on Intro, targeting venture-backed companies.
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The CEO of the unicorn AI accounting startup, Rillet, says AI is changing who consulting firms hire
Rillet, the AI-powered accounting unicorn, is riding the AI boom and the accountant shortage. CEO Nicolas Kopp says it could change consulting, too.
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