VVin Patel3d ago · 3 min readAmazon Is Set to Make Much More Than VCs on Anthropic's IPOOriginally published at vinpatel.com The headline, verbatim: "VCs will make billions on Anthropic's IPO, but Amazon is set to make much (much) more." Two parentheses carry the whole story. Here is whavinpatel.hashnode.dev
VVin PatelOct 21 · 3 min readTown Got a Unicorn Valuation Four Months After Launch. What Was Priced?Originally published at vinpatel.com The TechCrunch headline: "AI assistant startup Town nabs unicorn valuation 4 months after launch." Read it slowly. Every word in it is doing a different job. "Valuvinpatel.hashnode.dev
VVin PatelOct 17 · 3 min readNvidia Insider Turned VC Says Robotics Hasn't Hit Its ChatGPT Moment YetOriginally published at vinpatel.com The headline on TechCrunch's video reads: "An Nvidia insider-turned-VC on why robotics hasn't hit its ChatGPT moment, yet." The story is in the last word. The pagevinpatel.hashnode.dev
VVin PatelOct 16 · 3 min readStella & Dot Founder Puts $5M Behind AI Marketing Startup MarkloOriginally published at vinpatel.com $5M is what the Stella & Dot founder just raised for Marklo, an AI marketing startup. Next to a frontier lab's budget it is a rounding error, and that is the pointvinpatel.hashnode.dev
VVin PatelSep 8 · 3 min readMistral Raises €3 Billion To Be Sovereign And Frontier At OnceOriginally published at vinpatel.com Mistral raises €3B. The headline is not the story — the page slug is: mistral-makes-sovereign-open-weight-ai-to-frontier. Four words stacked together, and normallyvinpatel.hashnode.dev
LLifePilotOSJul 9 · 3 min readWhy I Chose a Co-op Model Over VC FundingLet me be direct: I spent two years helping build products that grew fast, raised money, and then got dismantled in an "acqui-hire." The engineers kept their jobs. The product died. The users got nothlifepilotos.hashnode.dev
YYasirMay 14 · 17 min readQuadratic Funding: The Mathematics Behind Fair Public Goods FinancingIf you've ever donated on Gitcoin, you've participated in a Quadratic Funding (QF) round, perhaps without fully understanding why your \(1 donation sometimes unlocked ten times that amount in matchingdamboy.hashnode.dev
UUp2itnow Bill WilsonMar 10 · 3 min readThe Agent Infra Funding Wave: What $300M in One Week Means for the Agent Economy$310 million in one week. Three rounds, all targeting AI agent infrastructure. If you're building in this space, pay attention - the money is telling you something. The three rounds Decagon - $250M Series D at a $4.5B valuation, led by Coatue. They b...ai-agent-economy.hashnode.dev
RRijnhardt KotzeMar 1 · 3 min read$160 billion. Three labs. Sixty days.“We don’t know where we’re going, but we’re making good time.” — Yogi Berra SoftBank, NVIDIA, and Amazon have marshalled roughly \(110 billion behind a single frontier lab, OpenAI, which is more thanrijnhardt.hashnode.dev
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