Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Simon Willison , maker of the excellent Datasette open source data exploration tool, had commented on a post by Stratechery’s Ben Thompson , who had captured Bing in the act of misbehaving. Alarm over AI isn’t something new. Ray Kurweil ’s book, “ The Singularity is Near ,” was published in 2005.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2025

AI User Adoption Is Literally Unprecedented We know this, but still, the numbers do sort of blow your mind: ChatGPT: 0 to 800MM weekly users in 17 months (vs. Netflix’s 10+ years to 100MM) Time to 100MM users: ChatGPT (2 months), TikTok (9 months), Instagram (2.5 Data centers now consume 1.5%

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 28, 2023

Here’s how Mosaic describes themselves on their homepage : Generative AI for All Easily train and deploy generative AI models on your data, in your secure environment. MPT-30B and 7B are fully open source, ready-to use LLMs—pre-trained, fine-tunable, inference-ready, open training data, the works. Commercially licensed.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

If you missed GTM 134, check it out here: Build your AI Outbound Machine with ChatGPT | Jordan Crawford Highlights: 05:03 When to hire your first sales reps. 13:17 Characteristics of top early-stage sales reps. 22:25 Designing a sales compensation plan. 31:55 Hiring for grit, curiosity & determination. This is the core brand value prop.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 23, 2024

Inception: Direct Database Access for the Data Team Our immediate need was getting the data science team programatic access to a read replica of our production database, an Amazon RDS Postgres cluster. Our data team could’ve handled it, but the CLI interface would be an ongoing source friction and pain.

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 17, 2023

But nearly every day, there’s been something new that’s at least important and sometimes game-changing. The most famous Text AI is OpenAI’s ChatGPT, initially released just four months ago–though in the current mode of acceleration, those four months seem like ages. predecessor. What is that date?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

and a New Era in Sales Tech Last week, we unveiled Operator , the first company incubated within GTMfund, alongside the announcement of a $3.6 Contact data became a commodity, and the more we reached out, the less we connected. When everyone has access to the same data, it loses its competitive edge. The market spends $2.5

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

And, especially when you’re considering integrating a new technology platform into your business—like AI today, or cloud a decade ago—how do you invest in innovation without losing control of your runway and budget? In typical market conditions, new customers may be clamoring for new features.

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Crafty CTO

JULY 7, 2023

In a conversation with a venture partner yesterday, I was talking up the value that ChatGPT can bring to knowledge workers. He responded that their firm had a policy against putting any confidential data into ChatGPT. Since nineteen fifty whatever you guys have had that space ship, the thing you found in New Mexico.

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