Kayode

Partner Venture Capital Special Situation Fund @23mile | Host, 23mile Podcast (Tech M&A and Turnaround Stories)

[Kayode @Kayodeodeleye]

If I knew what I knew now, I wouldn't have raised venture capital."

This is what a founder friend told me the last time we caught up.

Two big headaches he's facing:

🥵 sheer weariness from fundraising every year for the past 12 years

❌ constant challenge of meeting sky-high targets after his recent growth equity round

And he's one of the lucky ones who has taken some "chips off the table."

The fact is that for many founders, the VC path becomes a death spiral, leaving them broken with nothing to show for it

That's why we've put together a framework to help founders think through their options and escape the VC hypergrowth model

Give it a read if you're on the venture path, thinking of it, or just want to know how venture really works💡

Details below 👇🏽

@23milecapital

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@GergelyOrosz + more tech and the increasing young aversion to AI means people are tending towards offline activities

More run clubs, less run coaching app

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@afalli 🤣

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@billmaher It will get better

Education will move towards life skills

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Too hot to run outdoors in Dubai so today was a strength and run class

[Kayode @Kayodeodeleye]

This is just terrible management using claude usage as a KPI

Why is no company focusing on outputs?

[Keerthi @Keerthi_InIT]

Last month: Management was pushing us to hit 100% AI adoption, so half the team was basically having casual chats with Claude just to boost AI usage metrics for performance reviews.

This month: Mandatory sessions on Copilot token optimization and reducing AI consumption.

My org moved from "use more AI" to "please stop using so much AI" in about two weeks. 😂

[Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings]

Great content does one of three things:

1. Teaches something you did not know.

2. Educates you on something you thought you knew but you were wrong on.

3. Tells you a secret/miracle that changes everything you previously thought.

[Kayode @Kayodeodeleye]

@pbakaus This is brilliant

AI writing is abominable

Get help with process but think and write your own words

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AI writing is abominable, here's a regeneration of a real blog I found

The em dash used to be a sign of AI writing but for some reason it's now way way worse

Here's a teardown of this blog

1⃣ The title starts with a figure of speech - Antithesis: when humans write, it's typically one coherent strand in a title and rarely with such rhetorical fluorish. The two full stops are also a dead giveaway

2⃣Short sentences: if you want to know how odd this is, read out the first 2 lines (4 sentences) out loud. The left panel squeezes 52 words into 9 sentences with the shortest sentence having just one word. A natural writing style comes close to speaking cadence and combines sentences into paragraphs that support the main point.

3⃣Three clipped words (Tricolon) where one smooth sentence would do. And the main message in the staccato construction serves to emphasise the point made in previous sentence.

4⃣Negative parallelism: this short section of three sentences packs four different figures of speech. The main one is negative parallelism, two short sentences containing ‘never’ then dropping the word to deliver the punch line ‘judgement’. Tricolon, Anaphora and Asyndeton are also squeezed in

Simply amazing!

5⃣The chain: the last word of one sentence becomes the first of the next, so each line seems to follow from the one before.

In isolation, each of these figures of speech may sound smart and lends the author authority.

Stacked tightly as it is in the full writing, you can’t avoid a feeling of deception.

As a reader, I get the sense that the “author” could not bother to write with their own character, experience and distinct style.

If they’ve fully delegated writing to a robot, then there’s not likely to be any value in reading it. I could just go generate the same thing on my own

[Kayode @Kayodeodeleye]

This week I hosted 21st episode of my podcast and the biggest lesson is this

Achieving success as an entrepreneur takes a long time. Nothing is as important as staying alive until tide turns in your favour

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@AlyaBlt_ AI absolutely does NOT give same output

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@shub0414 Those are life skills. Well done

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@SahilBloom Starting a business in college

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@PeterDiamandis @William_Blake This is a dishonest take

There’s no LLM today that can perform at the level of a university graduate

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@garrytan 💯

Legacy banks will lose to AI native startups

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@paulg @OfficialBBrooks 💯

Still in the early stages with finance but it’s going to be one of the biggest fights

[Kayode @Kayodeodeleye]

@stevemagness One foot in front of the other

Works in marathons as in building a business

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@HunterBiden @hpmcd1 People are dunking on @HunterBiden for engagement farming and it works

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@brockpierson AI writing is abominable

[Kayode @Kayodeodeleye]

AI writing is abominable, here's a regeneration of a real blog I found

The em dash used to be a sign of AI writing but for some reason it's now way way worse

Here's a teardown of this blog

1⃣ The title starts with a figure of speech - Antithesis: when humans write, it's typically one coherent strand in a title and rarely with such rhetorical fluorish. The two full stops are also a dead giveaway

2⃣Short sentences: if you want to know how odd this is, read out the first 2 lines (4 sentences) out loud. The left panel squeezes 52 words into 9 sentences with the shortest sentence having just one word. A natural writing style comes close to speaking cadence and combines sentences into paragraphs that support the main point.

3⃣Three clipped words (Tricolon) where one smooth sentence would do. And the main message in the staccato construction serves to emphasise the point made in previous sentence.

4⃣Negative parallelism: this short section of three sentences packs four different figures of speech. The main one is negative parallelism, two short sentences containing ‘never’ then dropping the word to deliver the punch line ‘judgement’. Tricolon, Anaphora and Asyndeton are also squeezed in

Simply amazing!

5⃣The chain: the last word of one sentence becomes the first of the next, so each line seems to follow from the one before.

In isolation, each of these figures of speech may sound smart and lends the author authority.

Stacked tightly as it is in the full writing, you can’t avoid a feeling of deception.

As a reader, I get the sense that the “author” could not bother to write with their own character, experience and distinct style.

If they’ve fully delegated writing to a robot, then there’s not likely to be any value in reading it. I could just go generate the same thing on my own

[Kayode @Kayodeodeleye]

Banks and finance will be a fertile hunting ground for A.I. native startups

https://t.co/b6Twtx0usx

[Paul Graham @paulg]

If big companies can't make a net return on their LLM token costs, that doesn't mean it's impossible to. In fact this is exactly what you'd expect to happen with a new technology. Incumbents can't use it well, and are replaced by upstarts who can.

[Kayode @Kayodeodeleye]

@paulg @OfficialBBrooks 💯

Still in the early stages with finance but it’s going to be one of the biggest fights

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There's a fun exercise on AI writing, check it out

https://t.co/dPVB8aHUCe

[Kayode @Kayodeodeleye]

AI writing is abominable, here's a regeneration of a real blog I found

The em dash used to be a sign of AI writing but for some reason it's now way way worse

Here's a teardown of this blog

1⃣ The title starts with a figure of speech - Antithesis: when humans write, it's typically one coherent strand in a title and rarely with such rhetorical fluorish. The two full stops are also a dead giveaway

2⃣Short sentences: if you want to know how odd this is, read out the first 2 lines (4 sentences) out loud. The left panel squeezes 52 words into 9 sentences with the shortest sentence having just one word. A natural writing style comes close to speaking cadence and combines sentences into paragraphs that support the main point.

3⃣Three clipped words (Tricolon) where one smooth sentence would do. And the main message in the staccato construction serves to emphasise the point made in previous sentence.

4⃣Negative parallelism: this short section of three sentences packs four different figures of speech. The main one is negative parallelism, two short sentences containing ‘never’ then dropping the word to deliver the punch line ‘judgement’. Tricolon, Anaphora and Asyndeton are also squeezed in

Simply amazing!

5⃣The chain: the last word of one sentence becomes the first of the next, so each line seems to follow from the one before.

In isolation, each of these figures of speech may sound smart and lends the author authority.

Stacked tightly as it is in the full writing, you can’t avoid a feeling of deception.

As a reader, I get the sense that the “author” could not bother to write with their own character, experience and distinct style.

If they’ve fully delegated writing to a robot, then there’s not likely to be any value in reading it. I could just go generate the same thing on my own

[Kayode @Kayodeodeleye]

I agree with Kang

AI writing had this rhetorical flourish in a very unnatural manner

Makes most comments and long form writing unreadable

https://t.co/Zhkk5SovHO

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

A.I. writing has its share of telltale signs: copious em dashes, tortured similes and metaphors, and conspicuous verbs. Yet more advanced models are falling into a new trap: emptiness. Even when asked to mimic the styles of great writers, Claude prefers to generate passages in which characters idly touch furniture in empty hallways and nothing at all seems to happen. Can A.I. produce writing we actually want to read? It’s not looking likely, Jay Caspian Kang writes. Read about his hope for the future of writing: https://t.co/oZf4qxUnRv