You have built the hit product—now what? That is the question Zoom CEO Eric Yuan and Emergence Capital General Partner Santi Subotovsky will tackle in their session titled “What Comes After Breakout Success?” From expanding into new markets to launching…
During his time as a law student at Harvard, Mark Lee encountered a concept in a trademark class that would change his career trajectory. He learned about the staggering scale of counterfeiting, an illicit industry worth more than three trillion…
Following its long-awaited launch of lossless streaming for paid subscribers, Spotify is now upgrading its service for free users too. On Monday, the company announced that free users globally will be able to search and play any song they want…
AI-powered chatbots are playing a growing role in spiritual life, according to a New York Times story that examines the popularity of religious chatbots and apps. The Times notes that an app called Bible Chat has been downloaded more than…
Carla Rover once spent thirty minutes sobbing after having to restart a project she had created using AI-generated code, known as vibe coding. With fifteen years of experience as a web developer, Rover is now building a startup with her…
Bret Taylor, the board chair at OpenAI and CEO of AI agent startup Sierra, was recently asked in an interview if he agreed with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s declaration that someone is going to lose a phenomenal amount of money…
Welcome back. There is a lot of future of transportation news to keep track of, so let’s jump in. It is comeback week, and not just because of my return. The biennial IAA Mobility conference in Munich featured a purposeful…
Google faces a new lawsuit accusing the company of illegally using news publishers’ content to create AI summaries that damage their business. The lawsuit comes from Penske Media, which owns industry publications such as Rolling Stone, Billboard, Variety, Hollywood Reporter,…
At the center of every empire is an ideology, a belief system that propels the system forward and justifies expansion, even when the cost of that expansion directly defies the ideology’s stated mission. For European colonial powers, it was Christianity…
How much do foundation models matter? It might seem like a silly question, but it comes up a lot in conversations with AI startups. These companies are increasingly comfortable with businesses that were once dismissed as “GPT wrappers,” meaning they…
