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TL;DR:

• 📰 News

• 🔗 Links

• 🐥 Tweet

• 💰 Funds

• ™️ Startups

• 📶 Recs

• 🗳 Poll

HEADLINES
Stack Overflow Users vs. OpenAI 💥

• Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal (Wired)

• H.I.G. Capital Raises $1.3 Billion for Infrastructure Fund (Venturebeat)

• Benchmark’s Victor Lazarte on what changes (and what doesn’t) when transitioning from operator to VC (Fortune)

• Mid-market buyout funds thrive against the odds (Pitchbook)

• ​​What Vinod Khosla says he’s ‘worried about the most’ (TechCrunch)

• Artificial Intelligence is Coming for Venture Firms (Business Insider)

• Zendesk debuts formal VC arm to back early-stage AI startups (Axios)

• Tim Tebow Joins GOVO Venture Partners (Business Wire)

• Meta makes its AI chatbot available to all users in India (TechCrunch)

• Linda Yaccarino’s right-hand man out at X as global operations chief reportedly given the sack (Fortune)

• PE roll-ups bet energy transition will go slow (FT)

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RESULTS

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

If you were a Canadian LP, would you keep investing in Canadian venture capital funds, or would you invest elsewhere

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🇨🇦 Canada (17)

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🌎 Somewhere else (17)

34 Votes