Emilie Gerber on getting positive press for Uber during crisis:⁣ ⁣ "We went after health tech reporters who couldn't care less about the rideshare drama. Got tons of product features."⁣ ⁣ Sometimes the best PR move is to change the conversation.

Emilie Gerber on spray-and-pray podcast pitches:⁣ ⁣ "I'd rather have one really good pitch sent to 10 relevant folks than blast 100 with some weird semi-custom thing."⁣ ⁣ Stop the automation. Do the research.

Emilie Gerber on PR for startups:⁣ ⁣ "We act like a startup. We do very little in the way of huge plans and tracking and reporting, and we love to just get out there and pitch. With most new clients, we're pitching our first week."

How does a $2.4M fund raise turn in to a $20M raise over a weekend? May be VCs should go on a summer vacation after all.

Google admits what we all thought would happen, AI is shrinking the web.

When money was free, first-time VCs bet on networks instead of businesses. ⁣ ⁣ Easy capital made easy bets—warm intros replaced diligence, momentum outweighed fundamentals. ⁣ ⁣ But markets correct. ⁣ ⁣ Without real returns, there’s no capital for the next fund.

Apple didn't start with making an iPhone Air, they were trying to make the foldable phone and in the middle of the process decided it will take one more year at least to launch the foldable so decided to launch a thin phone. Also another reason why prices remained flat.

one of the most honest takes, that you won't hear much

I asked Glean co-founder Arvind Jain about his vision for AI at work

Adverse selection.

As soon as you see external prints, secondary transaction activity goes up⁣ ⁣ The mechanics behind why falling rates create a secondary market explosion

new pod out with founder of Glean Arvind Jain

Jacob Bank: "We have 9 people. I can see us needing 12 or 15, maybe 20, but I don't see a future where we need 200."⁣ ⁣ Modern company building looks very different. Midjourney scaled to $100M with 10 people.⁣ ⁣ Lean teams > bloated headcount.

My biggest takeaways from my chat with Arvind Jain (co-founder of Glean): 1. Productivity doesn’t scale with headcount At Rubrik, doubling engineers and tripling sales didn’t move the needle—output flatlined. The hidden drag was knowledge silos. Growth isn’t about adding

new episode with Co-founder of Clockwise Matt Martin ❇️ full conversation at: tinyurl.com/startupprojectt

"Civilization is the only example of super intelligence." Our CEO David Stout on Startup Project explaining why we're building millions of specialized models across devices — not one giant model in the cloud. A few highlights: – Why prompting loses money – 8B models matching