How To Invest In Startups – Part 2
Welcome back. This is part two of Silicon Valley Investors Club’s guide to getting started in startup investing. In part one of this guide, we
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Welcome back. This is part two of Silicon Valley Investors Club’s guide to getting started in startup investing. In part one of this guide, we
This article is written by Yigit Ihlamur (@yihlamur), co-founder and general partner at Vela Partners, an AI-enabled venture capital firm. As a venture capital firm,
Dan Hightower, a two time venture-backed founder and Angel investor, shares how to invest in startups with an angel syndicate from how to start to picking a syndicate and making your first deal.
The Silicon Valley Investors Club is excited to have Yun-Fang Juan join us for a talk about angel investing.
Anthropic gets more funds, Mustafa Pushes an exec out, and Anthopic wants to regulate Open source AI.
Show hosts Joe (Eng VP) and Jordan (M&A Deal Lead) worked at various companies from Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Salesforce, Slack, Carta, Splunk, Wealthfront, Adobe, Microsoft, and more.
🤩Here the rest of the interview & get access to new stories and blog posts for the episode and the ones we didn’t have time to cover, our book recommendations, exclusive episodes and latest AI research for only $5 at patreon.com/svic
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:00 Amazon Injects $2.75B more
04:20 Inflection gets $650M from Microsoft
05:20 Mustafa Pushes First VP out
06:30 Anthopic Pushing For More AI Regulation
16:30 Testing Regimes In Other Industries
24:10 The importance of multiple AI Firms
29:10 Anthropic Wants Opensource to be regulated
32:30 Anthropic needs to write legislation
#anthropic #ai #microsoft #inflection #chatpt #openai
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Sully discusses the creation and development of Cognosys, an AI platform that automates workflows using natural language processing, including the challenges faced and solutions implemented. They explore open problems in AI development, such as billing and termination issues. The conversation delves into the evolution of AI models, the future of retrieval augmentation generation (RAG) and large context models, and topics like simplifying AI systems, agentic models, and surprising use cases.
Show hosts Joe (Eng VP) and Jordan (M&A Deal Lead) worked at various companies from Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Salesforce, Slack, Carta, Splunk, Wealthfront, Adobe, Microsoft, and more.
🤩Here the rest of the interview & get access to new stories and blog posts for the episode and the ones we didn’t have time to cover, our book recommendations, exclusive episodes and latest AI research for only $5 at patreon.com/svic
Takeaways
00:00 Introduction and Background
01:35 How Cognosys.ai went virtal
05:30 How AutoGen Evolved Into Cognosys
12:17 Picking The Right LLMs
18:00 Big Challenges Cognosys Is Trying To Solve
20:43 How GPT-5 Can Make Your AI Technique Obsolete
31:20 Determine Product Pricing
33:45 Customer Surprises And Product Roadmap
37:45 GPT-4 Dethroned By Claude 3
42:45 Using Claude 3 to write code
#openai #claude #ai #artificialintelligence #chatgpt #gpt4
Christian Kyle, Chief of Staff at Astranis, they create low-cost satellites for higher orbits discusses the fascinating satellite industry, what it feels to launch a satellite, their strategy for deploying GEO stationary satellites, the cost savings of using a SpaceX reusable rocket, the politics of space, and so much more! Show hosts Joe (Eng VP) and Jordan (M&A Deal Lead) worked at various companies from Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Salesforce, Slack, Carta, Splunk, Wealthfront, Adobe, Microsoft, and more.
Christian just launched a great YouTube channel called First Principles that creates awesome videos on deep-tech startups. Please go to their channel and subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@1stPrinciplesFM
Time Code:
00:00 Intro
00:59 Christian’s Background
03:00 Awesome Videe About Astranis’ First Launch
06:30 Emotions Launching A Satellite & Running Space Business
12:40 Their Strategy For Deploying GEO Stationary Satellites
19:00 How is their first satellite working?
21:34 Google Founders Blimp Dreams & Satellite M&A
30:15 How is Space Regulated?
37:00 True Cost Savings Of SpaceX Reusable Rocket
41:50 Delivering Net to Rural Areas & M&A Shaky Soon
46:30 Why Do People Distrust Technology?
50:51 First Principles Understanding of Science
Overtime questions: Dealing with latency, defense contracts, and other questions. You can find his answers here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/over-time-keil-100889434
#astranis #spacex #spacexstarship #spacexstarlink #space
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