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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

Are “strategic investors&# (e.g. industry investors rather than VCs) a good idea for entrepreneurs. Preliminary details: Social e-commerce site, based around celebrity and influencer-curated recommendations. Paul discussed his perspective having been at SAP Ventures. Current round: $150mm in Series D from Softbank.

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Generative AI: Opportunity or the end of media as we know it?

VC Cafe

These platforms, leveraging vast amounts of user data, were able to offer targeted advertising solutions that were both more effective and appealing to advertisers, significantly eroding the ad revenue streams that publishers had relied on. It could help bring back some of that classified ad revenue that was lost. What do you think?