Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
What’s Next After You Lose Someone’s Money — Charlie O’Donnell – Coach, Author, VC
It’s perfectly reasonable to feel a bit awkward after you’ve lost someone’s money, regardless of whether they’re an individual angel or a venture capital investor. Just because it isn’t technically a VC’s own money wouldn’t make it any less of a black eye within their firm, right?
Here are a16z’s ideas for Congress on AI
Andreessen Horowitz is laying out a framework on Wednesday that it wants Congress to take up for artificial intelligence, including ideas on protecting kids and preserving a role for states despite the federal approach.
The Average Founder Ages 6 Months Each Year | Tomasz Tunguz
No, founders are not adopting Bryan Johnson’s regimen to reverse aging. Quite the opposite : the average founder raising capital ages six months every year.
Facilitating AI adoption at Imprint | Irrational Exuberance
I’ve been working on internal “AI” adoption, which is really LLM-tooling and agent adoption, for the past 18 months or so. This is a problem that I think is, at minimum, a side-quest for every engineering leader in the current era. Given the sheer number of folks working on this problem within their own company, I wanted to write up my “working notes” of what I’ve learned.
People are the new oil | Convergent Thinking
When people say “X is the new oil,” they mean the bottleneck. The resource everyone needs and no one has enough of.
AG Brown co-leads multistate coalition suing over USDOT’s illegal attack on EV charging infrastructure | Washington State
Washington Attorney General Nick Brown today co-led a multistate coalition in suing the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) for unlawfully suspending two bipartisan grant programs for electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure that would reduce pollution, expand access to clean vehicles, and create thousands of jobs.
