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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, 17 July 2024

17 pieces

Jake Epstein

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Pirate Wires · Mike Solana

California’s Controversial AI Bill: A Cheat Sheet

Saastr

5 Interesting Learnings from OneStream at $480,000,000 in ARR

On My Mind · Michael Dempsey

The Venturification of Research & The Resulting Prisoner's Dilemma

Newcomer · Eric Newcomer

Silicon Valley's Trump Embrace

Clouded Judgement · Jamin Ball

The Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Intelligence Revolution

Saastr

What it Takes to Get Funded in 2024 with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

Madrona Ventures

Our Partnership with Shaped: The Future of Personalization, Recommendations, and Next-Gen Search

Menlo

Anthology Fund

A Wealth of Common Sense · Ben Carlson

Animal Spirits: Fast Food Inflation

Kyle Poyar's Growth Unhinged · Kyle Poyar

The next era of GTM tech

Founder Collective

AI start-ups: Don’t sell picks and shovels, dig with them

Digital Native · Rex Woodbury

How AI Will Change Education

Moonfire VC

Where founders should focus to capitalise on the $2tn security opportunity

European Tech Weekly

European Tech Weekly - Week 28 - 2024

OpenVC.app

How Flashpoint automates their VC stack

Tomasz Tunguz · Tomasz Tunguz

The Future of Blockchain Data : Our Investment in Allium

Tuesday, 16 July 2024

23 pieces

Mike Maples Jr.

Pattern Breakers Co-Conspirator Meetup Webinar This Friday Noon Pacific

Point72 Ventures

To outwit existential GTM threats, invert your thinking

Michael Dempsey

The Venturification of Research & The Resulting Prisoner’s Dilemma

Michael Dempsey

The Acceleration of Research Capital & The Resulting Prisoner’s Dilemma

Marc Andreessen · Marc Andreessen

New podcast! Little Tech Agenda, the future of tech in America, politics, Biden and Trump

Turner Novak

🎧🍌 The Secret 4-Week Visa Powering Silicon Valley with Lisa Wehden

A Wealth of Common Sense · Ben Carlson

How Many Millionaires Are There?

Venture Upward · David Beisel

Lessons from VC Exits (Part I)

Not Boring · Packy McCormick

Make the Internet Fun Again

Sequoia

AI Optimism vs AI Arms Race

Electric Capital

Announcing Electric Capital’s New Partner and Head of Founder Platform: Thuan Le

Pirate Wires · Mike Solana

Thoughts and Prayers for “Literally Hitler”

Battery Ventures

Sound Bites: Lessons in Software Leadership with Andy Kofoid

Medha Agarwal

AI & its Impact on Vertical SaaS: The Gates of Distribution have Flung Open

Sammy Abdullah

AE metrics from 172 SaaS companies

Saastr

CRO Confidential: How Wiz Went From $0 to The First $100M with Wiz ex-CRO Colin Jones (Pod 665 + Video)

Julia Maltby

AI Apps Deliver Outcomes — So Why Are They Still Charging Like Old School SaaS?”

Clouded Judgement · Jamin Ball

OneStream: Benchmarking the S1 Data

notes & upside · Nandu Anilal

Infrastructure after AI Scaling

Saastr

Dear SaaStr: Am I Better Off Hiring an Outside CEO or Promoting Someone From Within?

Saastr

What a Typical Day Looks Like for a SaaS Sales Rep

Lenny's Newsletter

Taking the week off

Short-Formed · Anu Atluru

Cool Self