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Textio’s Founder Kieran Snyder on the Two Advantages Startups Have in AI (While Remaining Skeptical Of The Funding Gold Rush)

Hunter Walker

It’s also not an accident that, upon stepping back from being Textio’s CEO, I’ve built a sizable exec coaching practice working largely with early stage founders. Big companies are also rich with much more cash to fund AI investments and compute costs. Like everyone else, we went distributed overnight in March 2020.

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How the pre-seed round made a comeback in 2024

VC Cafe

Pre-seed rounds accounted for 14% of all seed stage deals in 2023, up from just 5% in 2020 according to Pitchbook data and I predict it will be even higher in 2024. I genuinely believe that the next 24-36 months will be a great vintage to invest in early stage.

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The State of Creative Automation

VC Cafe

GPT-3, a complex algorithm for AI text generation, is making text automation broadly available. Full scale generative text engines : GPT-3/ Open AI – launched only in May 2020 by OpenAI , GPT-3 quickly made waves as the largest neural network ever created. My virtual synthetic music studio, by Amper.