Leave Big AI Firms, Build Your Own High‑Equity Startup
If you are at companies like OpenAI, DeepMind, Palantir, other multi-decacorns…you can also leave now. You will quickly get funded by VCs (I am happy to chat), and you can build a company to maximize value of your own massive equity stake.
Companies Adopt Camera Systems to Boost Factory Efficiency
Lots of companies going after factory management and efficiency improvement using camera based systems. 👇🏽
Fund the Next Breakthroughs in Fundamental Science
We need to fund the next breakthroughs in fundamental sciences, unique data sets, and experiment libraries.
VC Rounds Have Ballooned Tenfold in Just 18 Months
Not universally true by far, but a chunk of market has done an ~10x increase in the size of rounds in the last 12-18 months. $2m seeds are now $20m seeds. $20m large Series As are now $200m Series As....
Tech Workers Burn Out; Mental Health Support Needed Now
Tech folks need mental health support. People are working 20 hour days, 7 days a week. And still feeling like they are missing out on imp things, getting left behind, not raising enough money at high enough prices…or given too...
Leadership Requires Political Capital to Navigate Crises
Leadership includes building political capital over time to then use for the support of the community in moments like this. Below is about the SVB debacle we all faced few years ago.
AI Startups Thrive Amid Fearless, Lightning‑Fast Funding
Spent a day in the company of many early stage founders, disrupting many real world industries. 1. The power of what AI can accomplish for them is almost overwhelming 2. They question how fast to grow (and burn along the way)...
Opposite Deal Waves Collide, Future Finance Will Gasp
PE deals to take public companies private, and SPACs to take private companies public, are all ramping up simultaneously. We will look back at this time in finance history with bewilderment.
Tow Drivers Likely Safe From Automation for Decades
Saw a Waymo on a tow truck yesterday. And realized these tow truck drivers may still have a job 20 years from now.
Jet Engines Power AI Data Centers, Sparking VC Frenzy
Take their jet engines, use them to generate electricity for data centers, get $Bs in contracts. VCs are so excited about turbines.
Robots Still Can’t Master Folding a Fitted Sheet
Does a robot know how to fold a fitted bed sheet? I need to learn from a robot.
Nominal Acquires Fid Labs, Adding AI‑Native Hardware Agents
Building the data infrastructure for Physical AI. Nominal Acquires Fid Labs. 🚀🚀 Nominal's first strategic acquisition brings AI-native hardware agents to the platform.
Monopoly Threat: SpaceX Can Stifle Industry for Starlink
It’s OK to use the M word. Monopoly. They can kill almost the entire Spacetech industry by shutting off launch work for others for a few years to support Starlink and Starship.
Raise More VC Funding to Solve the Dilemma
Good point. One solution when faced with this dilemma: raise more VC dollars into these companies :-)
Tech Balkanization Accelerates Amid US‑China Power Struggles
US forced China to sell TikTok. China stops acquisition of Manus. Strategic tech warfare. Balkanization of tech continues.