5 neat AI startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2023 batch
It’s that time of year again: the week when startups in Y Combinator’s latest batch present their products for media — and investor — scrutiny. Over the next two days, roughly 217 companies will present in total, a tad smaller than last winter’s 235-firm cohort as VC enthusiasm a slight
Read MoreChris Lehane of Haun Ventures to dive into firm’s investing strategy and the web3 VC landscape at TechCrunch Disrupt
Chris Lehane, chief strategy officer at Haun Ventures, will bring his unique career experience and investing expertise to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. Prior to joining the firm, Lehane was an executive at Airbnb. He also co-founded a strategic consultancy firm, Fabiani & Lehane, that advised political, corporate, technology, entertainment and professional
Read MoreEmployee Search With OpenAI, Flowise, and LangChain
People search (image generated by Midjourney)If you read my previous article, you know that I have a Bostonian version of ChatGPT in Slack called W’kid Smaaht (“wicked smart”). My team lives in Slack, so it makes sense to have an AI bot in there, too. You can install W’kid Smaaht
Read MoreOKRs? More Like, R U OK?
OKRs? More like, R U OK?Why OKRs do not work for engineering teamsImage generated by MidjourneyI started my first job as a software engineer in the early 2000s. Since then, I’ve been part of nine different teams in companies of all sizes, including my own, and every single time, at some
Read MoreTech companies are finding their profitability groove
Tech companies are getting the hang of making money, or at least they're losing far less than they used to when money was cheap and "growth" was sexy.
Read MoreTubi sees impressive growth, with over 74M monthly active users
Tubi, the Fox-owned free ad-supported TV streaming (FAST) service, announced today that it surpassed 74 million monthly active users, up from 64 million in February. The FAST service also reported nearly four billion streaming hours for the first half of this year. According to Nielsen’s July Gauge report, Tubi reached
Read MoreTurning your vision into reality
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Read MoreThe Polestar 4 will launch in China with its own smartphone
Polestar, the Swedish EV maker owned by China’s Geely Holdings, plans to launch a smartphone alongside its upcoming SUV the Polestar 4. CEO Thomas Ingenlath shared the company’s smartphone plans with CNBC during the IAA Mobility event in Germany. Polestar confirmed the news with TechCrunch, noting that this is part
Read MoreChecksum polynomials
A large class of checksum algorithms have the following pattern: Think of the bits in a file as the coefficients in a polynomial P(x). Divide P(x) by a fixed polynomial Q(x) mod 2 and keep the remainder. Report the remainder as a sequence of bits. In practice there’s a little
Read More500 Global closes $143M fund for Southeast Asia startups
500 Global, the venture firm and seed accelerator, has closed $143 million in financing for what it claims is its largest Southeast Asia early-stage fund to date. The new tranche, 500 Southeast Asia III, or “500 SEA III” for short, counts a sovereign wealth fund, public and private pension funds,
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