An OpenAI researcher turned venture capitalist says investors are 3 to 5 years behind the latest AI studies

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AI bot blowing bubble
Exuberance for AI has led to fears of a bubble forming in the stock market in recent years.

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Figma CEO Dylan Field says he has a 'bias' for hiring young workers because they're likely AI natives

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Dylan Field of Figma
Figma CEO Dylan Field.

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How Semafor turned Washington into a profit center

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Seamfor CEO Justin Smith speaks onstage at one of the news publisher's conference in Washington, DC, October 2025 in Washington, DC.
Semafor CEO Justin Smith says his company hosted close to 100 events in 2025. His ambition is to build a Washington, DC-based event that's supposed to rivals the annual Davos gathering in Switzerland.

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A startup therapist says most founder blowups can be solved in three ways

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Yariv Ganor
Yariv Ganor started focusing on providing therapy to startup founders six years ago.

Yariv Ganor

A16z partner shares 3 things founders should be able to 'materialize' if they want to be successful

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Alex Rampell is pictured at Tech Crunch Disrupt in 2011.
Andreessen Horowitz partner Alex Rampell said he likes founders with a chip on their shoulder.

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Ben Horowitz says that investing teams shouldn't be 'too much bigger than basketball teams'

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Ben Horowitz
Ben Horowitz said investment teams should be the size of a playing five in basketball.

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This consultant advised Big Law at McKinsey. Now Sequoia is backing his AI startup for in-house lawyers.

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A man stands with his arms crossed on a cobblestone street in Brooklyn's Dumbo neighborhood, with the Manhattan Bridge rising between red-brick buildings behind him.
Nick Fleisher.

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Marc Andreessen says being controversial gives his VC firm an 'incredible competitive advantage'

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Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen said that founders want to work with investors who are "brave."

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After 7 years at McKinsey, I left to build an AI healthtech startup. I had to unlearn the pursuit of perfection.

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Julius Bruch
Julius Bruch, a former McKinsey consultant, explains why he left to build an AI healthtech startup —and how consulting prepared him for the leap.

Julius Bruch

Read the pitch deck a Y Combinator-backed startup used to raise $3.6 million to bring AI agents to the doctor's office

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Tivara cofounders Tej Seelamsetty and Aumesh Misra are pictured.
WashU alums Tej Seelamsetty and Aumesh Misra cofounded Tivara.

Michael Benabib

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