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When fundraising, founders must understand the rules, cultural differences and prepare strong narratives. It's about balancing vision with execution, showing ambition and having a clear path to success.
Zucman's tax on unrealized gains risks penalizing entrepreneurs, forcing asset sales and driving startups abroad. France should adopt nuanced tax policies supporting innovation, not stifling it
Intelligence Too Cheap to Meter In 1954, electricity was hailed as "too cheap to meter" thanks to nuclear power. What a weird twist of events that, 70 years later, nuclear is now gearing up to power the very infrastructure that is creating intelligence "too cheap to meter". Back in 2017, the paper Attention Is All You Need introduced the Transformer architecture, the engine behind today's Large Language Models. Since then, the cost of deploying intelligence has plummeted, turning complex reaso
Following up on last week's post on the current compute crunch and its impact on researcher career paths, we're digging today into a few of the common traits or similar experiences I've witnessed when chatting with soon-to-be researcher entrepreneurs. 🤔"Is there really a new breed of entrepreneurs that are coming out of labs to start businesses?" "It depends" is my answer. * Yes, we’re certainly seeing more researchers, with venture-type ambitions, looking to build large inherently research
Amidst an AI boom, researchers are weighing academic careers against entrepreneurship. GPU shortages and the need for real-world problem-solving are influencing their decision, pushing more towards corporates and startups.
Exploring how social support shapes founders: from opportunity-seizing to necessity-driven mindsets. It's time to rethink success by blending these traits. What kind of founder are you?
📣"The unemployed could try setting up their own business instead of just collecting unemployment benefits!" This quote by former French Prime Minister Raymond Barre in 1980 could very well have been said today by any random person criticising the allocation of unemployment benefits. I came across a Linkedin post this morning that was challenging the impact of governmental support in fostering entrepreneurship. The post was a bit 'clickbaity' in questioning whether social spending was a drain
Welcome back everyone, if you're joining here for the first time, perhaps it could be valuable to read up on Part-1 discussing the implications of LLMs becoming more pervasive in society. Truth in the age of social media and LLMs "Truth", "accuracy", and "objectivity" are cornerstones of journalism and as such have always played a balancing role between the information needs and the advertising-driven business model of distribution of getting more eyeballs on your content. Unfortunately this
Hello everyone, long time no see. 👋 I've been thinking about the implications of Large Language Models (LLMs) and thought I'd share some of my early thinking behind it. What started as a few notes in Apple Notes rapidly grew to a long dump of shower thoughts, links, articles and papers. This is my best shot at structuring it all. I've now bucketed my thoughts into what should roughly amount to 6 separate articles: 1. Instead of searching, just ask - Part 1: Philosophical implications of
As some of you may know, I've been looking into design tools for a while. * Personally, I quickly got sucked into the rabbit-hole of all-things design as a teenager when I started playing around with the Adobe suite, producing below-average memes and above-average (?) skateboarding clips [https://streamable.com/cxtpx8]. Since then I've kept a curious eye on the developments in the space. * Professionally, I've been looking into how software is helping bridge the gap, or "break
Thoughts on why I'm starting "yet-another-VC-blog" and why you should do the same with your own interests