Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
From an individual perspective, switching your worldview or mental model on a problem or topic can feel revelatory. “This changes everything!” But the world hasn’t changed. All that changed is how you understand it.
Confidential Draft Recommendations From Kotek’s Prosperity Council Suggest Tax Cuts and Reforms
Oregon Journalism Project has obtained a confidential draft of the 16-member panel’s calls for action, and that draft proposes significant changes to Oregon’s tax system, which the document calls an unbalanced “one-and-a-half legged stool,” overly reliant on income taxes and a distorted property tax system and lacking a sales tax.
From “System of Record” to “System of Intelligence”
In the next decade, you want to own the system of intelligence that pulls from the system of record, becomes the user’s one-stop shop for gaining context and taking action, and turns the SoR into something that’s primarily consumed at the API layer.
Silicon Valley’s Latest Binge-Watch Is a Humanoid Warehouse Worker – Business Insider
When asked about Figure AI’s livestream at an event in San Francisco on Wednesday night, Agility Robotics cofounder Jonathan Hurst replied: “Congratulations. We did that two years ago.” The Oregon-based startup has deployed its humanoid robot, Digit, with customers including Amazon, Schaeffler Group, and GXO, a logistics company.
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