Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

R&D spend is the lifeblood of technology companies—all the more so as companies race to build and incorporate AI into their products to remain competitive. In typical market conditions, new customers may be clamoring for new features. Without a product that provides unique value to customers, nothing else matters.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

and a New Era in Sales Tech Last week, we unveiled Operator , the first company incubated within GTMfund, alongside the announcement of a $3.6 The platform leverages advanced AI in a way that fundamentally changes how sales teams operate. Like chatGPT but more powerful, built just for sellers.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So once I made the decision to move ahead on the launch of Crafty CTO , I wanted to get on with it. I’m here to report that AI ack made a big contribution to getting me unstuck, moving, and launched, with what feels like enough quality to be credible. Time will tell. I came away from that conversation with my mind blown.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

John Gruber chimed in shortly after with a nice follow up, “ Bing, the Most Exciting Product in Tech ,” that calls out further commentary by New York Times columnist Kevin Roose.) Alarm over AI isn’t something new. Returning to today’s AI stories and our attitudes towards them.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

OpenAI is constantly firehosing us with new capabilities. I was fortunate to have just the right kind of need at just the right time to exercise both GPT-4 Vision and GPT-4 Turbo. I was fortunate to have just the right kind of need at just the right time to exercise both GPT-4 Vision and GPT-4 Turbo.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 17, 2023

My last AI post hit the wire 31 days ago, after a week of agonizing over what to focus on, with Something Really Important seeming to land every other day and completely blow up my plans. One of my go-to AI trackers / prototypers is Simon Willison , creator of the Datasette open source project. But … AI’s not like crypto.

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Crafty CTO

MAY 29, 2023

I’ve mentioned that generative AI tools like ChatGPT and MidJourney allow me to be more ambitious with my projects than I would otherwise have been. Plugging the LinkedIn and Mastodon POSSE Leaks From now on, any significant small idea gets done first on Crafty’s Illustrated as micro content using these new microformats.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Alex Kayyal and Julie Kainz, Partners at Lightspeed, shared at SaaStr Annual a framework they developed around how to think about this new era of Artificial Intelligence in SaaS, what opportunities are out there for startups, and how to think about incumbents. CRM wasn’t a new category, but they were done on-premise.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 28, 2023

Here’s how Mosaic describes themselves on their homepage : Generative AI for All Easily train and deploy generative AI models on your data, in your secure environment. They build upon the solid foundation of open source / open data projects that come out of a vibrant AI open source community. Where does that leave Google?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

If you missed GTM 134, check it out here: Build your AI Outbound Machine with ChatGPT | Jordan Crawford Highlights: 05:03 When to hire your first sales reps. You know, you mentioned people that are constantly having new contextual experiences, high intensity, high in curiosity, like. 22:25 Designing a sales compensation plan.

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