erin griffith
@eringriffith
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New York Times reporter // Startups and VC 🦄 Writing a book about the startups in the ZIRP era🦄
San Francisco, CA
Joined September 2008
My first feature for @VanityFair is a dispatch from Hollywood as an industry in panic and decline reckons with AI. "You can be afraid of it and attempt to fight it. Or you could try to figure out how to use it to tell different types of stories" Darren Aronofsky told me
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here is a startup called THE HOG and I have to say... it is a memorable name! "The Hog gives you GaaS (Growth as a Service)" https://t.co/79LQKZ0Wqf
thehog.ai
The Google Maps for customer acquisition. TheHog.ai is your AI-native GTM command center, directing sales and marketing AI co-pilots to monitor your market, find the best paths to customers, and...
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well this has already soaked up a big chunk of my day, interesting parts include discussion about a possible investment in jawbone and steve sinofsky forwarding epstein an edition of axios pro rata!
We cloned Gmail, except you're logged in as Epstein and can see his emails
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We cloned Gmail, except you're logged in as Epstein and can see his emails
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who said "financial innovation" was an oxymoron? here's a hedge fund dedicated to birkin bags:
forbes.com
Luxury asset investment company LUXUS debuts a fund dedicated to Hermès Birkin and Kelly bags—and investors get first dibs on the purses.
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Anonymous sites to review VCs seem to crop up every few years like clockwork and always disappear within weeks. Anyone remember VCguide from 2020? They were basically harassed / threatened off the internet if i recall. Here's a new one, it'll be fun while it lasts:
reviewmyinvestor.com
Anonymous reviews of VCs, LPs, and Angels. Discover honest founder experiences with investors before you pitch.
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most self described "humblebrags" are just brags, its fine, just own it, that's what social media is for
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if you didnt see this coming you weren't paying close enough attention
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there it is: New CEO not even in place yet, announcement pushed up by leaks.
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has she told the $12bn publicly traded company she is currently ceo of...
so excited that @fidjissimo is joining openai in a new role: ceo of applications, reporting to me. i'll remain ceo of openai, but in this new configuration i'll be able to increase my focus on research, compute, and safety. these are critical as we approach superintelligence.
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More barbell effect in venture Mega-VC firms are eating up all the $$ AND they're concentrating the biggest bets in smaller numbers of companies
This is absolutely bananas - and super bad for innovation, customers, and VC returns. LPs need to do their job and insist on risk-seeking, contrarian, diversified investment behavior. "Redpoint: 31% of All VC Money Last Year Went Into Just 20 Deals"
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incredible! i love reading about this time and even majored in "magazine journalism" in hopes of chasing this dream. (by the time i graduated in mid-2000s it was already gone)
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perfect timing for this piece, i was generally solicited by a vc firm website just this morning (good riddance to these rules, BTW)
SEC makes solicitation easier for VC and private equity
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the journalism equivalent is something like... rumor you can't confirm < published scoop
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i love the magical thinking of wearing a hat that says IRR<DPI 2 years into a severe IPO drought with no end in sight via @nmasc_'s great newsletter
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Elizabeth Holmes' And Sunny Balwani's appeal has been denied
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The "lean start-up," AI edition. @eringriffith has the story, in depth. https://t.co/9y21hhtYzt
nytimes.com
Tech start-ups typically raised huge sums to hire armies of workers and grow fast. Now artificial intelligence tools are making workers more productive and spurring tales of “tiny team” success.
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AI will meaningfully transform the economics around venture. Similar (but much bigger) to what AWS did 15 yrs ago! Amazing piece @eringriffith and nice to see port cos @MeetGamma
@thoughtlyai in there! Thanks for including @AforeVC
#VentureCapital
https://t.co/1tDTNIzRNU
nytimes.com
Tech start-ups typically raised huge sums to hire armies of workers and grow fast. Now artificial intelligence tools are making workers more productive and spurring tales of “tiny team” success.
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