"With AI, don't solve problems that won't be problems soon with better models." That's one of the rules Chris Pedregal followed while building Granola, a $20M AI meeting notes app with an incredible 70%+ weekly user retention. In our chat, Chris shared 5 hidden rules for building

AI is the future of healthcare. This hire suggests OpenAI could be building the product experience needed to shift the majority of human doctor visits to AI. Many of us early adopters are already using ChatGPT and Claude Projects to organize personal health data and use these

When Lightspeed first engaged with Anthropic in early 2023, they had no public product, fewer than 100 employees, and were pre-revenue, but they had a clear vision: to build AI systems that are both powerful and safe. Fast forward to today – Anthropic has quickly become

Highlight of GDC was bringing together leaders across gaming/media (incl. Roblox, Xbox, Epic Games Store, Discord, Scopely, Electronic Arts) and AI (incl. OpenAI, Google, Meta, Inworld AI, and more) for an evening of candid reflections at our annual CEO Forum ⬇️ lsvp.com/stories/ceo-fo…

The VC Filibuster: show up uninvited to your favorite research lab and simply don't leave until handshake. Long night ahead. Thoughts & prayers.

we still need to move the decimal point a few over to the right... but it's a start beehiiv 🐝

Over the last year, we built technology that allows AI apps to seamlessly auth and transact with content from the internet's largest websites. Now, we extend that to MCP ecosystem. Introducing, the tollbit (dot) dev platform. With just one account, anyone building AI agents

The moment we've all been waiting for 🥁 Huge congrats to Chris Pedregal, Sam Stephenson, and Granola team on official mobile launch!

The most up-to-date picture of your company isn't in any doc, wiki, or spreadsheet. It's in the conversations your team is having. Today we're announcing Granola 2.0. All the context from your team's meetings, in one place, accessible to you with AI. We're also announcing

Could not be more excited for Lightspeed's partnership with lmarena.ai and UC Berkeley Sky! #GoBears 🐻

Join us June 13-14 for the inaugural Lightspeed Vibe Coding Hackathon in partnership with Inworld AI, Mistral AI, and Volley! Bringing together the most talented builders, engineers, researchers across AI, consumer, gaming, interactive media 👇 lu.ma/ajcqhtna

We’re incredibly grateful to everyone who helped get us here, from our earliest testers to our new backers who believe in this mission (led by a16z, @Uofcalifornia, with participation from Lightspeed, @laudeventures, Kleiner Perkins, Felicis, The House Fund, among others) This

We are excited to announce that we just published our Q1 2025 State of the Bots report, analyzing AI bot scraping trends across our publisher network today. Here are 3 key takeaways: - RAG scraping is on the rise: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) bots scrapes now exceed

The world's leading publishers and websites on TollBit use @Fastly as their CDN, and today we're excited to launch AI Bot Management, allowing digital content owners to seamlessly verify & paywall AI traffic and be fully prepared for the agentic era of the internet 🛜

Weekend: Beehiiv's Growing Buzz Can the Substack competitor be the next billion-dollar newsletter startup? theinformation.com/articles/beehi…