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Strategy as a Series of Beliefs

Kellblog

Era 4 (2003-2005). We believe that companies will need a centralized data catalog to help people find the data they need, and that machine-learning can help with that finding. If you’re a new startup, that belief is probably embedded in the answer to, “why did you found the company?” Era 3 (1999-2002).

Strategy 102
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The Economic Case for Generative AI (presentation)

Andreessen Horowitz

For the first part of this talk, I’m going to argue that the capabilities have all been there, but the economics just haven’t for startups. The AI mediocrity spiral If you step back and you look at the standalone case for AI economics—not what a big company can extract from it, but a startup—it’s actually not been great.

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Salesforce’s Mike Kreaden on how to build a platform to drive growth

Intercom, Inc.

Mike has been in and around startups for the better part of three decades: as a consultant, as a co-founder and now as the Managing Director of Salesforce Incubator, which propels new startups into the marketplace. He joined me for a chat that ranged from the role of AI to how they choose startups to incubate. Short on time?

Scale 151