In the newsletter today, I chatted with Stack Overflow CEO @pchandrasekar about why he decided to start charging AI companies for data, which he called "the right thing to do." https://t.co/vvAtsUVIOo
NY-based Pinecone Systems, which offers vector data storage for LLMs, raised a $100M Series B led by a16z at a $750M valuation, up from $168M in February 2022 (Kwaku Gyasi / Bloomberg)
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A #Colts athletic trainer got @LiquidDeath to give him $100k and @NFLScheme wrote about it. Very cool for @TravisPoulson2
And somehow @KyleBrandt was involved too. Wild
Colts Trainer, Travis Poulson, wins national waterboy competition, $100k prize. https://t.co/zeOVdbIl6O
Travis Poulson isn't a waterboy.
The Colts Athletic Trainer is the first-ever 'hydration assistant' to receive a 1-year, $100,000 brand endorsement deal... joining @LiquidDeath.
IT'S HERE! Our annual list of the big tech trends to watch in 2022, according to venture capitalists.
tldr: Web3 is popular; fundraising "party rounds" will boom; and the return to offices is canceled.
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"It will be the biggest economy in the world in the next 5-10 years," says Mitch Green on China. "Nobody can answer some of the regulatory questions. Not any investor on the planet, but in the long term they probably all work. In the near term, who the heck knows?"