🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Investors love to say that we're in a new era for growth thanks to AI. But beyond the top 0.01%, what does this mean? How fast is the average startup ramping revenue? Marc Andrusko + I pulled data across pitches a16z to build an AI growth benchmark 👇

I am going to print this, put it up on my wall, and look at it when any situation looks utterly hopeless.

One of the more critical (yet hardest!) things to do as a board member is to deliver the "strongest version of the truth" in a way that the CEO can hear it, and it results in a productive discussion. Anish Acharya at a16z scout event this week

"What do you believe now that you didn’t 2 years ago?" The most exciting AI companies are tackling the least exciting markets.  Builders who deeply understand "boring" workflows - This is your time 🚀 2x better -> now 10x Only SW -> SW & Labor Glacial sales -> Demand from CEO

You can fight the trend of vibe coding saying it's not for "real engineers" or not for "production workloads". No one will remember this in a few year as the industry fully transitions to the new way of doing things.

Move to SF! ✌️

Robots are still subject to basic economics. Waymo supply/demand!

Name another (athletic) sport where an athlete has been a global champ for >15 years! (Federer '04-'18, Nadal '05-'22, Djokovic '08-'23). Perhaps the beginning of a new era w/ Sinner & Alcaraz. Will look at this chart next time I need motivation for more discipline/ stamina...

Financial Services x AI is still Day 1. • What infra will power agentic payments? • How can LLMs reason over bank data? • Who’s building the AI-native layer for every core function? I find the sharpest signal on what’s next at Moov Community fintech_devcon — join us! wadearnold

“Everyone can cook!” Guillermo Rauch’s v0 is scary good now. Backend hooked up to Neon - Serverless Postgres or Supabase in minutes—by me, a PM (mech eng background not CS!) If you have an idea & the ability to articulate it… you can ship. Let’s build 🚀

This motion creates thousands of Neon - Serverless Postgres instances per day. Each can scale from 0 to supporting most demanding production workloads.

Operation Chokepoint 3.0 Under the Biden administration, Operation Chokepoint 2.0 tried to debank and deplatform crypto: financialservices.house.gov/news/documents… That era has ended, but now the banks are about to implement their own Chokepoint 3.0 — charging insanely high fees to access data

Narrow products are the future: we might pay more, but only for what's 100x better. Well articulated by Anish Acharya a16z This shift is coming soon to B2B too Why? w/ vibe coding the people with taste and market insights can now build too

Lex Sokolin | Generative Ventures angela strange Hyperspace At Hyperspace we started by launching “ephemeral webpages” which have now evolved to the full spatial UI to construct even more powerful ephemeral software. Demo and presentation:

Software as we know it is going to die. Much how the browser is actively being disrupted by OpenAI, our business software tools are going to change dramatically in the next few years. We don’t want more buttons, more tabs, more flows. Users want to drive better and faster