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Why your company requires both brains and brawn to succeed

Entrepreneurs' Organization

He’s also a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, sits on the boards of several startups, is a many-time entrepreneur himself, and was previously an exec at GE and Intel. A cultural gulf has opened up between the realms I call brains and brawn. Whatever terms you prefer, it’s time to bridge the gulf and reframe the dichotomy.

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Egyptian investment app Thndr nabs $20M from Tiger Global, Prosus Ventures and others

TechCrunch

Thndr, launched in late 2020 by Ahmad Hammouda and Seif Amr , is filling the gap by making it easier to open and manage investment accounts, consequently replacing traditionally slow and outdated processes by incumbents. Tiger Global, Dubai-based early-stage VC BECO Capital and Prosus Ventures co-led the Series A investment.

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The scoop on Gen-Z and how they are rewriting the rules of the Internet

TechCrunch

Because Battery Ventures dropped an interesting report on Gen-Z and I wanted to talk about it. This is what we got into: The fracturing of culture: Gen-Z is large, and very diverse. This is what we got into: The fracturing of culture: Gen-Z is large, and very diverse. Why the extra edition? You can read the report itself here.

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How COVID-19 is Changing Digital Health

Dream It

The group discussed different healthtech topics including venture investment, trends, reducing burn, enterprise sales, and market performance, highlighted below. Venture Investing | How will VCs adjust to the pandemic over the next two quarters? . “ Venture investors are getting away with more draconian terms. ”

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CoreWeave, a GPU-focused cloud compute provider, lands $221M investment

TechCrunch

CoreWeave , an NYC-based startup that began as an Ethereum mining venture, has secured a large tranche of funding as it continues to transition to a general-purpose cloud computing platform. ” It’s tough for any cloud provider to compete with the incumbents in the space — i.e., Google, Amazon and Microsoft.

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Alation bags $123M at a $1.7B valuation for its data-cataloging software

TechCrunch

The way Sangani sees it, most corporate leadership wants to build a “data-driven” culture but is stymied by tech hurdles and a lack of knowledge about what data they have, where it lives, whether it’s trustworthy and how to make the best use of it. The all-equity tranche values Alation at over $1.7

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Bringing AI to the Masses

Andreessen Horowitz

Adam: If you’re a large model creator and you have tens of employees that you can allocate to building a consumer product, and you have the culture to do that, then you can go direct to consumer, and you can build a good product. You know, incumbents versus startups. You need to do billing in all these different countries.