Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
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Getting More Strategic – Accidentally in Code
This is the first rule of strategy: strategy is contextual. A crucial insight, because often when leaders fail, it’s because they tried to apply a strategy that worked in one context, to a different one, without considering the difference.
It might not be true, but it is real. AI, SF and our culture. | Hunter Walk
Seems like this holds true for not just my daughter’s age range but perhaps all humans? Or at least that’s what I was pondering when reading Jasmine Sun’s latest essay “🌻 are you high-agency or an NPC?”
OpenAI and NVIDIA Announce Strategic Partnership to Deploy 10 Gigawatts of NVIDIA Systems | NVIDIA Newsroom
OpenAI and NVIDIA today announced a letter of intent for a landmark strategic partnership to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems for OpenAI’s next-generation AI infrastructure to train and run its next generation of models on the path to deploying superintelligence. To support this deployment including data center and power capacity, NVIDIA intends to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as the new NVIDIA systems are deployed. The first phase is targeted to come online in the second half of 2026 using the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform.
Why Local-First Apps Haven’t Become Popular?
When you build a local-first app, you’ve effectively created a distributed system. Multiple devices can mutate data independently, sometimes offline, and later must converge to the exact same state without losing data.
The Hard Way Pays Off: Inside Sierra’s Design Partner Strategy
Instead of chasing low-friction pilots, Sierra asked design partners to pay, commit time and co-build — converting 100% of these partners into customers.
Andreessen Horowitz Has Returned at Least $25 Billion Net to Its Backers Since the Firm’s Founding in 2009
But despite the firm’s outsized influence, little is known about the fund’s performance and inner workings. It’s always been a bit of a mystery whether a16z’s capital bazooka strategy was merely a route to extreme relevance or one that would also secure them top tier venture capital returns.
TikTok Deal Could Make Oracle Founder Larry Ellison a New Kind of Media Mogul – The New York Times
The database billionaire and his son, David, are Trump favorites. The family could soon control an empire that includes CBS, Paramount, Warner, CNN and a piece of TikTok.
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