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Good morning 👋

And RIP to Willie Mays.

Baseball was my main sport growing up (before football), and Willie Mays was one of my childhood idols. He was a true role model and was smart enough to stay out of the spotlight during and after his playing days (an increasingly rare trait).

Switching gears.

We have a ton of headlines and even more links we like today.

Let’s get into it.

TL;DR:

• 📰 News

• 🔗 Links

• 🐥 Tweet

• 💰 Funds

• ™️ Startups

• 🗳 Poll

HEADLINES
AI is coming for big tech 👀

• AI Is Coming for Big Tech Jobs—but Not in the Way You Think (Wired)

• OpenAI’s former chief scientist is starting a new AI company (The Verge)

• The EU is Taking on Big Tech. It May Be Outmatched. (Wired)

• A Former YC Partner Makes a Big Bet on Rapid Delivery (The Information)

• China’s Top AI Startups Enter the US; Defying Political Tension (The Information)

• The Four-Day Workweek: How It’s Working at Two Companies (WSJ)

• Elon Musk Pitches Advertisers on a Return to X, Months After Telling Some to ‘F’ Themselves (WSJ)

• Nvidia is now the world’s most valuable company, surpassing Microsoft (TechStartups)

• Former Snap engineer launches Butterflies, a social network where AIs and humans coexist (TechCrunch)

• Unit and Loop lay off staff and Brex ditches the co-CEO model (TechCrunch)

• Cybersecurity startup Huntress eyes IPO after hitting unicorn status (Pitchbook)

LINKS

🔮 Generative AI’s Second Act: The latest from Sequoia

💲 Why Pricing and Packaging Matters More When You’re Launching Your Second Product: Why you should need to have a pricing strategy ASAP

🧵 The Great Unbundling: Looking back at Benedict Evans’ 2021 annual presentation

📱 Social Media Consumption Extrapolations: (Spoiler alert) - it’s not healthy or sustainable

📋 New Rules for the Economy: From Kevin Kelly (Founder @ Wired)

🤮 How VCs Become Assholes: From the NFX team

💵 Breaking into Venture Capital through Syndicates: Thoughts from the Last Money In guys (today’s sponsor)

👀 Specialists and Generalist Investors: Is one better than the other, or is it all subjective?

🧠 How to make great decisions: The framework Shaan Puri uses

🏀 Similarities between Jordan and Kobe: What made them great according to their trainer

💰 Are you underpaid? We built a tool to assess whether you’re overpaid or underpaid using our VC comp data

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POLL

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- Clay

RESULTS

Here are the results from our poll question in yesterday’s piece:

What is the best accelerator / incubator in the world?

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 YC (27)

🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Techstars (12)

🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 MuckerLab (26)

🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜️ 500 Startups (23)

🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Plug and Play (12)

🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜️ Something else (24)

124 Votes