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☆ AI startups struggle to not become OpenAI's 'roadkill:' 'When you step on the court with Jordan, you don't try to beat him at his game'
  + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
More than 300 AI founders and investors gathered earlier this week in San Francisco's Hayes Valley neighborhood for the 2nd Cerebral Valley AI Summit, co-hosted by the independent journalist Eric Newcomer and AI gaming startup Volley. Some called it an " extinction event for other AI startups ." "OpenAI can bully everyone, they can bully the talent, they can bully the competition, they can bully the term sheets. "When you step on the court with Jordan, you don't try to beat him at his game. During his panel, Warner was asked about those who took to social network X, formerly Twitter, to proclaim the death of nascent AI startups.
Persons: Eric Newcomer, —, OpenAI, Alex Pall, That's, they're, Andrew Hoh, Reid Hoffman, Hoffman, Vinod Khosla, Khosla, Jason Warner, Warner, it's, He's, he's, Poolside, Jordan Organizations: Summit, Business, Mantis Venture Capital, Microsoft Locations: San Francisco's Hayes, Paris
☆ Here's the 25-page pitch deck a fintech helping Gen-Z shoppers get the best deals online used to attract investors like Paris Hilton, The Chainsmokers, and GV to back its $15 million Series A
  + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Paige Hagy | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
The startup scrapes users' emails for discounts and promotions, applying them at the point of sale. Checkmate is a savings app and web browser extension for Gen-Z online shoppers that pushes promotions and deals to the user at the right time. Checkmate utilizes machine learning and language processors to scrape users' emails for promotions and discounts from their favorite brands. Pall introduced Checkmate to other potential celebrity investors, including Paris Hilton, who participated in the Series A. Check out the 25-page deck Checkmate used to raise its $15 million Series A.
☆ The unraveling of fintech darling Vise
  + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Stephanie Palazzolo | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +28 min
It was April, and more than two dozen salespeople who worked for the fintech startup Vise had been ordered to a multiday off-site at the W Hoboken hotel in New Jersey to share exhaustive reports on their performance. Even salespeople at bigger, established, top-tier investment-management firms typically wouldn't close $250 million in a year, multiple sales employees said. (K-means clustering is an unsupervised machine-learning algorithm often referred to as a form of AI, Vise's founders said). (Vise's founders disputed this, saying the company received updated financial data only once a day for its portfolio-construction engine.) And to address its "leaky funnel" of overestimating prospective sales, Vise was to stop outreach to new clients while it onboards and upsells to existing clients, the document said.
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