Managing Partner, Blitzscaling Ventures
Cambridge, MA
Joined May 2009
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Another day, another "All of your personal information was stolen..." letter in the US mail. Right into the recycling bin, as I already assume everything about me is available for sale...
Congrats to the Crossbeam team - very exciting day! crossbeam.com/crossbeam-and-…
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AI startup categories that are very crowded are: 1) AI Marketing 2) AI for recruiting 3) AI for getting hired 4) AI for creating content.
Startups should stand out by having access to exclusive data, harness network effects, build in product-led-growth and more.
Trying to use less plastic. Buying loose heads of lettuce, milk in cardboard, seltzer in cans, etc. Then I walk into Walmart, see a million plastic easter eggs for pennies each, and get a more than a bit disillusioned.
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If your startup has a good growth rate, no one will care who's on your board of advisors.
If you don't have a good growth rate, no one will care who's on your board of advisors.
Ergo, no one will care who's on your board of advisors.
Thinking that Apple and Google will pipe their voice interfaces (Siri and OK Google) into a Perplexity-like search to finally make output truly helpful. Instead of "Here are some websites I found..."
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I logged into the @penguinrandom author portal for an end-of-year review, and was pleased to see that @Blitzscaling is available in 18 languages around the world!
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As some know, I'm now a VC partner at @BlitzVentures cofounded by @chrisyeh.
Fun fact: I've known Chris for about two decades. I served on his board of Ustream when he was CEO.
Here's a 2007 photo I took of him readying the streaming kit which would be provided to @Scobleizer who was headed to Web2 Summit. The Ustream product would go viral after that week. It later sold to IBM for a nice sum.
Chris and I have remained friends for all these years, and now we're working together, again!
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Well that makes it simple.
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Welcome to the Llama Lounge, AI Startup Series that I organize. See the final event of the year hosted by @HanaHaus Palo Alto, Nov 2.
Is this the largest tech event in downtown Palo Alto since the iPhone launch?
Drone video by the talented @spcmonkeyfilms crew. #llamaLounge
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I plan to be at this Llama Lounge event in Palo Alto.
I have been to all of them this year.
It's ground zero for the AI startup revolution.
The companies and people at this event are on the bleeding edge of global innovation. Many will evolve to become the leading edge. And some, well, they will go on to dominate new categories in generative AI.
I've seen this cycle happen many times.
From boom to bust to boom.
From euphoria to despair and back again.
This cycle is repeating once again.
See you all there.
DM if you want to connect in advance.
Llama Lounge, the AI Startup Event Series will be hosted at @hanahaus on Nov 2 evening, Palo Alto.
Extreme demand: 250 on waitlist and growing. If you're approved and not attending, please decline to make room for others. 700 registered.
Kickoff: @jowyang that's me!
Keynote: @chrisyeh of Blitzscaling
Over 100 investors are registered
Meet 10 AI Startups on the Demo Floor:
- Amotions: AI-powered upskilling & coaching
- Aomni: Actionable account intelligence for sales
- Bizly: Copilot for customer events
- Blueprint AI: Generate construction blueprints
- Chatsimple: Business chatbot made simple
- Miri: Top health expert coaching 24/7
- MultiOn: Your Personal AI Agent
- Noodle: AI + automations for solopreneurs
-Omniscience: Generate a book from a prompt
- Passio: Ready-to-deploy Edge-AI for enterprise
lu.ma/llamaloungenov23
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Wow. Big energy.
Scary and beautiful moment at @TEDAI2023 as OpenAI’s @ilyasut takes the stage, forecasting how AGI will build the next generation of AGI.
Read that again: AI will build AI.
Opportunity and dangers abound. This is a moment: we understand that we are building a new species. #AI
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Llama Lounge, The AI Startup Event Series, Palo Alto
lu.ma/llamaloungenov23
Meet 10 AI Startups on the Demo Floor:
- Amotions: AI-powered upskilling & coaching
- Aomni: Actionable account intelligence for sales
- Bizly: Copilot for customer events
- Blueprint AI: Generate construction blueprints
- Chatsimple: Business chatbot made simple
- Miri: Top health expert coaching 24/7
- MultiOn: Your Personal AI Agent
- Noodle: AI + automations for solopreneurs
-Omniscience: Generate a book from a prompt
- Passio: Ready-to-deploy Edge-AI for enterprise
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When I was attending the Korea Conference, I spoke with @askadamtorres of the #MissionMatters podcast about Blitzscaling and Korea: missionmatters.com/blitzscal…
