That Was The Week

By Keith Teare

That Was The Week is an editorialized and curated weekly look at developments in tech, startups, and venture investing with a video and podcast for paid subscribers. All free subscribers get a 6-month... more

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February 10, 2023 Born Again. Is Tech Back?
Facebook at 2 billion users a week, ChatGPT already at 100m. Meta stock up 100% in 3 months. Is Tech Born Again?

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Content from @alexkantrowitz @alexeheath @kateclarktweets @om @davekarpf @BrentLeary @hamishmckenzie @JONATHANVANIAN @karissabe & @TwitterDev
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February 04, 2023Unicorns are Dying
Contents
Essays of the Week
--AGI will not happen in your lifetime. Or will it?
--Google vs. ChatGPT
--Unicorn Valuations Are On The Chopping Block
--Thinning The Herd
--Netflix’s New Chapter
--Why Now is a Great Time to Raise Seed Funding. Even If It’s Awful for Series A-E Rounds.
--Japan to remove limit on overseas investment by startup funds

News of the Week
--Cowboy Ventures goes bigger with $260M across two new funds, including an opportunity fund
--Lightspeed - Fintech Trends for 2023 and Beyond
--What Microsoft gets from betting billions on the maker of ChatGPT
--NEA Announces Two New Funds Totaling $6.2B

Startup of the Week
--Substack

Tweet of the Week
--Dave Rubin on Twitter
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January 19, 2023The Dawning of a New Era
Contents
Essays of the Week
--24 Seriously Embarrassing Hours for AI
--Is Microsoft about to get the deal of the century? Or is Sam Altman unloading OpenAI at just the right time?
--Is ChatGPT Really a “Code Red” for Google Search?
--ChatGPT Creator OpenAI Could Be Valued At $29B In Tender Offer
--Infinite AI Interns for Everybody
--Who Owns the Generative AI Platform?
--Fireside Chat: Reid Hoffman, w/ Elad Gil (AI, Big Tech, & Startups)
--New AngelList Data Shows Startup Fundraising Pain in Second Half of 2022
--What Creators Really Want From Twitter
--Visualizing China’s Dominance in Battery Manufacturing (2022-2027P)

News of the Week
--Apple’s New Reality
--Twitter Officially Bans All Third-Party Apps
--The European Union and the Quest for Digital Sovereignty: Briefing addresses the causes of Europe's failure on digital innovation

Startup of the Week
--Blackstone raises over $22B for world's biggest secondaries fund

Tweet of the Week
--Bill Gurley on Degobalization
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December 09, 2022 Can Bad AI be Good?
This week we look at the fallout from the ChatGPT launch. How concerned should we be that ChatGPT is often wrong? Can we trust it? Should we use it? If so what for?
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November 25, 2022 The Thanksgiving Issue
#ActivityPub & #Mastodon are in the news. A long-time passionate group of believers in the indieweb has recently found a use case. @elonmusk has inspired many opponents to try this new distributed social technology. It is time to understand it.
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November 19, 2022The Crazy Ones: In Defense of Risk-Takers
Masayoshi San, Cathy Woods, Elon Musk, and Sam Bankman-Fried have all been in the spotlight I want to take a step back, and a deep breath and ask. Would we be better without risk-takers? Even risk-takers that take too much risk and lose? Content from @elonmusk, @CathyDWood, @GSands, @masason, @SBF_FTX, @HarryStebbings, @mwseibel

Contents
Editorial
In Defense of Risk-Takers
The Crazy Ones
Masayoshi Son owes $4.7bn to SoftBank following tech rout

20VC: ARK Invest’s Cathie Wood - Harry Stebbings

Musk Warns Twitter May Lose Billions Next Year

Elon Musk gives Twitter staff deadline to commit to being ‘hardcore’

Twitter Employees Have Reportedly Had Their Building Access Suspended and Musk is Being Suspiciously Quiet

Costanoa’s First 10 Years: What a Long (and Short) Strange Trip It’s Been
Essays of the Week
What to Watch in AI

In My Newsletter I Trust

Binance role in FTX collapse under congressional scrutiny

Binance’s CZ is considering purchasing Genesis’ loan book

Crypto Lending Seizes Up as FTX Contagion Spreads

Narratives – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
News of the Week
Endowments quickly slide from record-breaking returns to losses

Want to Invest Like a VC? These New Indexes Can Help You Do It

Meet The Companies That Joined The Emerging Unicorn Board In October 2022

Sam Bankman-Fried Tries to Explain Himself
Startups of the Week
Protocol - RIP

Mother Duck

Mastodon
Tweet of the Week
Michael Seibel - @mwseibel
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November 11, 2022Bank Man Fried
This week saw FTX shrink from $32 billion of value to zero in less than 48 hours. @TheInformation is doing great reporting. It seems the ill-named founder @SBF_FTX - Sam Bankman-Fried - invested hundreds of millions into Sequoia and other funds. The @SECGov failure to provide a regulatory framework for Crypto seems even more silly. But @DavidKirkpatric and @LHSummers provide a thoughtful distraction from the noise.

Contents
Editorial: I Vote For Change
Essays of the Week: The end of the Internet?
In Our Own Best Interests - Techonomy - David Kirkpatrick

Larry Summers Compares the Surge of Pain in Tech to the Dot-Com Bubble
The Big FTX Collapse
Sam Bankman-Fried’s Late-Night Move and How the FTX House Crumbled

FTX’s $2 Billion Startup Fund Ensnared in Collapse

FTX’s Bankman-Fried Quietly Invested More than $500 Million in Sequoia and Other VCs — The Information

Binance walks away from FTX deal, citing ‘mishandled customer funds,’ regulatory scrutiny
Substack
Introducing Mentions and Cross-Posts

The Substack Bestseller Badge
Zoom Zooms
Zoom is coming for Microsoft’s territory with email and calendar services

Tesla vehicles will soon have Zoom video conferencing
This Week in Twitter
Musk Warns Twitter May Lose Billions Next Year

Musk ends remote work at Twitter

Elon Musk sells Tesla shares worth $4bn
News of the Week
Meet The New Unicorns Minted In October 2022

Tiger Global Slashes Value of Private Tech Bets by Billions, Documents Show

VC firm Molten Ventures cuts portfolio value after tech sell-off

Changing times (or, why is every layoff 10-15%?

Stripe will lay off 14% of its employees
Startup of the Week
The Internet
Tweet of the Week
Sam Bankman-Fried
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November 04, 2022The Musk Edition
Twitter is complicated. And this week it has attracted intense and emotional attention from a wide spectrum of opinions. The standoff between @AOC and @ElonMusk on his intent to charge $8 a month for the Twitter blue tick is symbolic of a wider debate. @karaswisher, @waltmossberg and @davidsacks all weigh in. @HamishMckenzie of @Substack also has an angle.

Contents
Editorial: Elon Musk 1-0 Kara Swisher
Twitter’s Rebirth
Elon Musk
Twitter is Good for Substack
Hamish McKenzie

Introducing Substack Chat
Essays of the Week
Meta Myths - Ben Thompson

Ways to think about the Metaverse - Benedict Evans

Will nationalism end the golden age of global AI collaboration?

After A Lot Of Hype, (Useful) AI May Finally Be Here - Crunchbase

Google releases text-to-image AI model Imagen for public use for the first time

Why America Must Develop Space and How We’ll Do It - Andreessen Horowitz
Review of the Week
iPhone 14 Pro Camera Review: A Small Step, a Huge Leap
Fool of the Week
Elizabeth Warren
Startup of the Week
Tiger Global Management
Tweet of the Week
Elon Musk
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October 28, 2022A Tale of Two Platforms
Meta lost 25% of its value in 24 hours. Twitter moved to close the deal with Elon Musk as its stock neared $54. Both founders have a vision. Whose will win? Discuss…
Content from @elonmusk, @finkd, @noahpinion, @stratechery, @seedcamp, @ttunguz

Contents
Editorial
A Tale of Two Platforms
Meta

Twitter
Essays of the Week
9 Predictions for Data in 2023

Apple’s new App Store tax on ads is a direct shot at Meta

Generative AI Startups Attract Business Customers, Investor Funding

Chips and China

The end of the system of the world - by Noah Smith

The Rise of Real-Time Collaborative Tech : Seedcamp
News of the Week
Mobileye stock rises 40% in its return to a public market in chaos

Stability AI CEO, After Ruffling Feathers of Researchers, Discussed $1 Billion in New Financing

Andreessen Horowitz’s Flagship Crypto Fund Takes A Beating — Report

Tech unicorn start-ups valued at $1 billion now rare in Silicon Valley
Startup of the Week
Snowflake
Tweet of the Week
Elon Musk
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October 21, 2022The End of Apps and the Rise of the Machines
The rise of data, and the increasing scope for AI to mine it for useful outputs, leads some to predict the end of apps. Can we dream of just asking for what we want, and getting it? Lots to chew on this week. Enjoy.

Contents
Editorial
The End of Apps? - A Discussion
Essays of the Week
The AT Protocol - The Bluesky Team

AI 2022: The Explosion - The Coatue Venture Team

AI: Startup Vs Incumbent Value - Elad Gil

An AI Might Have Written This - Fadeke Adegbuyi

Alien Truth - Paul Graham

Will the Metaverse replace PCs?

Accel 2022 Euroscape: Reset

Mission → Vision → Strategy → Goals → Roadmap → Task - Lenny Rachitsky

Dylan Field (Figma) - at TechCrunch Disrupt
News of the Week
Meet The New Unicorns Minted In September 2022 - Gené Teare

Around Acquired by Miro Labs

Stanford Wants a Bigger Piece of Silicon Valley’s Top VC Funds: Endowment Chief

Silicon Valley is starting to cave to European regulators

Meta Must Sell Giphy, U.K. Competition Authority Orders in Final Decision
Startup of the Week
Minerva Lithium
Tweet of the Week
Hunter Walk
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