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NFDG: The $1.1B VC Fund That 4X’d in Two Years—Then Got Acquired by Meta

SaaStr

The AI Focus: Betting Big on Artificial Intelligence From the outset, NFDG positioned itself as an AI-focused venture fund, anticipating the massive wave of innovation that would sweep through the artificial intelligence sector.

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RAG Explained: What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation?

How To Buy Saas

Industry leaders have quickly embraced RAG as a way to build more intelligent AI applications. In fact, Gartners 2024 AI report advises organizations that want to use generative AI on private data to prioritize RAG investments. While the acronym might sound funny, the concept has proven incredibly powerful.

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GTM 135: How Marketing Creates Million-Dollar Exits: 6 SaaS Success Stories | Katrina Wong

Sales Hacker

I know you advise, invest, you know, in a lot of, you know, startups. It can’t be the technical skills. What is one tactic or strategy that is working for you right now or working at some of the companies that you’re advising? Katrina Wong: Think about AI and the possibilities of that, right?

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Top Product Manager Roles at Data-Driven Companies (+Candidate Spotlight)

User Pilot

A person comfortable with data operations for ML AI projects. PM with a technical background and a strong product sense. Experience in AI , machine learning, or related fields. Technical fluency to understand, communicate, and drive impact in highly technical and fast-moving problem spaces. Android-first PMs.

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Clouded Judgement 3.22.24 - ERR vs ARR and the Conundrum of AI Revenue Streams Today

Clouded Judgement

” Let’s look at consumption revenue - this is also not technically recurring! And because the AI (particularly generative AI) space has so recently come on the scene, there aren’t a huge number of vendors! Altimeter is an investment adviser registered with the U.S.

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What Builders Talk About When They Talk About AI

Andreessen Horowitz

It will likely take years, or even decades, before we have a full tech stack for generative AI and LLMs and a host of transformative applications—though we have reason to believe the impact is accelerated this time around. While previous AI cycles had plenty of technological advances, they lacked transformative economics.

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Tabular: Turning Your Data Swamp into a Data Lakehouse with Apache Iceberg

Clouded Judgement

The rise of foundation models and generative AI only furthers this trend. Source: [link] I won’t go into the specifics of each layer (catalog, metadata, and data layers), but if you want more technical detail this post does a great job. Altimeter is an investment adviser registered with the U.S.

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