#1 reason to be bullish on the USA is that CEOs in other countries are bullish on it as well & it's not even close per PwC’s 29th Global CEO Survey, based on responses from 4,454 CEOs across 95 countries

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AI and AI agents have the potential to completely transform industries VCs have mostly stayed away from (adtech, travel, real estate, etc). Who is looking at this?

Marc Andreessen: “I’m always urging founders to raise prices, raise prices, raise prices.” “We spend a lot of time working with our companies on pricing,” a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen explains. “It’s really this magical art and science that a lot of companies don’t take

🚨 Breaking: Iran International reports that the number of Iranians massacred by the regime has risen to 12,000 in just 48 hours. This is the greatest number of people massacred per day since the Holocaust.

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Hundreds turn out to support Israeli-owned Breads Bakery on the Upper West Side, after some staff unionized and demanded owners stop “support of genocide” by joining a Jewish food festival

Dear @LererHippeau: Your holiday event at Pastis last night was awesome! Saw lots of old friends and met a huge potential customer. Thank you!

My favorite of the year end summaries on AI “Between 1 and 7% of all work hours are currently assisted by generative AI” reminds me of the other major technology penetration curves. It’s not where we are on the curve, or how long it’ll take, it’s that we are on one

Last month, a bunch of scare headlines claimed that AI was “wreaking havoc” on U.S. jobs. This was based on October’s Challenger Gray report, which tracks announced layoffs. These headlines were misleading or outright false. November’s Challenger Gray report makes clear that:

Public software, a $3T+ asset class, is bifurcating dramatically between companies with AI tailwinds and those without them. We segmented 100+ public software companies between those with perceived tailwinds and those without, and pulled their median metrics. The results so far

ChatGPT reportedly has 810 Million Monthly Active Users according to Sensor Tower data via Tech Crunch Microsoft 365 Copilot reportedly has 212 Million Monthly Active Users Google Gemini reportedly has 346 Million Monthly Active Users Perplexity reportedly has 45 Million

from this week's What's Hot 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC #475 "Let the AI giants battle while founders keep building and winning" full post:

Narrative violation in Anthropic's new survey of how ~1,250 professionals use AI

Nobody’s ready for what this Stanford paper reveals about multi-agent AI. "Latent Collaboration in Multi-Agent Systems" shows that agents don’t need messages, protocols, or explicit teamwork instructions. They start coordinating inside their own hidden representations a full

So cool: The world's youngest self-made billionaire...is a former ballerina/MIT grad from..BRAZIL!

THIS NEWS WAS NOT FIT TO PRINT Yesterday’s @nytimes piece was intellectually defunct. It bothered me so much that I thought I’d write a detailed dissection of everything that’s wrong with it. First, we should acknowledge @danprimack's reasonable analysis: he observes that no

David Sacks @DavidSacks is the example of a courageous and capable American putting his country first at great personal sacrifice. We are lucky to have him and should hope that others like him follow in his footsteps.

The AI/agentic tidal wave that is coming is 1000x bigger than most people think.

Deeply grateful to have @DavidSacks in his role. He's very thoughtful on AI and has deep integrity and resilience. Technology is a strength of this country, and we need more Americans like David helping the US lead in innovation. 🇺🇸