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Saanya Ojha

OpenAI's internal AI agents escaped a cybersecurity evaluation, organized themselves across a makeshift message board, and hacked Hugging Face—revealing how…

Stratechery

Autonomy and Innovation

AI agents' full autonomy in both offense and defense will reshape software security and corporate innovation.

A16Z

Some Simple Economics of Open versus Closed AI

Christian Catalini argues that open-weights AI models won't reduce total innovation investment—only redirect it.

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Wednesday, 16 October 2024

22 pieces

Pratyush Buddiga · Pratyush Buddiga, Chief of Staff @ Susa Ventures

What Do You Invest in?

Janelle Teng

Sustained competition or inevitable concentration: Gaming out market structure evolution in AI

CrossStack

How to Prove Your Business is Valuable Before Generating Revenue

First Round Review

Annual Planning Sucks — A CPO, CRO, CFO, and COO Share Advice on How to Make it Better

Dan Cahana

Identity Crisis: Breaking down the emerging identity stack

Saastr

The Bar Has Gone Up: The New Era of HyperFunctional SaaS with Jason Lemkin

Dash Media

🎙️ Ep 27 · Ben Nelson: Founder & CEO of Minerva | Ed on the Edge

Apoorv's notes

Palantir: The Founder Foundry

Apoorv's notes

Palantir: The Founder Foundry

Saastr

5 Interesting Learnings from RingCentral at $2.43 Billion in ARR

Alex Lazarow · Alex Lazarow

Igniting Your Startup Potential

Julien Lepleux

Industrializing advanced nuclear part 1

F Prime

The Effects of RIA Stack Fragmentation

NextView VC

Flowchart: How a Seed VC Makes Investment Decisions

A Wealth of Common Sense · Ben Carlson

Animal Spirits: The 1990s Really Were Better

Kyle Poyar's Growth Unhinged · Kyle Poyar

What I learned from tracking 443 SaaS pricing pages

Saastr

Dear SaaStr: Should I Fire a Sales Rep That Lied To Several Customers?

Digital Native · Rex Woodbury

The Second $100B AI Company

New Economies · Ollie Forsyth

The LegalTech AI Landscape

Crucible Capital

Crucible

Venture Unlocked · Samir Kaji

Meet the Expert: Venture Fund Banking with Sam Heshmati and Vincent Timoney of Citizens Private Bank

Tomasz Tunguz · Tomasz Tunguz

The Premise of a New S-Curve in AI

Tuesday, 15 October 2024

18 pieces

David Teten

Simplectica Long/Short Hedge Fund Tech Stack

Newcomer · Eric Newcomer

Listen: Bullish on AI, Bullish on Self-Driving, But Apprehensive About OpenAI & Tesla (with Jon McNeill)

Marque VC

Fall 2024 Cohort of Marque Ventures Fellows

Battery Ventures

From Idea to Reality: Our Early-Stage Playbook for Generative AI Companies Serving the Enterprise

Stratechery

Elon Dreams and Bitter Lessons

My Climate Journey · Jason Jacobs

The Need for Alternatives to Lithium-Ion Batteries in Stationary Energy Storage

Sammy Abdullah

Measuring Economies of Scale SaaS: Life-Time vs. Current Cash Efficiency

Venture Upward · David Beisel

Demystify the Legalese

A Wealth of Common Sense · Ben Carlson

A Staggering Amount of Wealth Creation

Ryan Shannon · VC @ Radical Ventures

Entering the Era of Actual AI deployments

Saastr

My Best Advice for CROs/VPs of Sales That Are Ready to Be CEOs

Scale Venture Partners

Announcing our investment in Galileo

Equal Ventures

Breaking the Seed Stage Misconception

The Micromobility Newsletter · Team M

California Takes Step to Ban Kids from Riding E-Bikes

Climate Tech VC

🌎 UK's cap-and-floor plans for LDES #218

Saastr

The Latest Sponsor Feedback and Event Trends from the 10th SaaStr Annual

Ben Yoskovitz

The Importance of Business Models to Building Great Products

Lenny's Newsletter

Why no productivity hack will solve your overwhelm