A ranking of the builders behind these apps needs a link between a person and a product, and we do not record one yet. When we do it will come from launch posts people wrote themselves. Business profiles only, never personal accounts.
This week on 20VC x SaaStr, Harry Stebbings, Rory O’Driscoll and I went through Nvidia’s $96.2B quarter and its 70% forward guide, the $12.9B Hugging Face deal, OpenAI cutting off Cursor, the agent swarm that sat inside Hugging Face and OpenAI undetected for weeks, Cognition at $46B, Clay at $7B, Linear at $2.5B, and Salesforce going all in on multi-surface and outcome pricing. 1. Nvidia guided to…
I got the email the other day. Frank Holding Jr., Marc Cadieux and Jesse Hurley, letting me know that starting in early October, the rollout of a “united brand strategy” begins. And the SVB brand will now be retired. Translated: Silicon Valley Bank Technology and Healthcare Banking becomes First Citizens Innovation Banking. SVB Global Fund Banking becomes First Citizens Fund Banking. SVB Go become…
My son recently came to me to brag about using AI to find our ancestors. While the results were correct, I didn't learn anything new, as it stopped at my grandparents. I was never very interested in my genealogy, but I decided to see if AI would be a good tool for this. TL;DR: Yes, it is, and even more than that. In a little less than one month, I managed to gather more than 600 individuals and ge…
We forgot what we were supposed to build In late 2017, my previous co-founders Jannis Pohlmann, Brandon Ramirez, and I spent six months on nights and weekends working through an idea which eventually became The Graph . We were trying to make open data usable while keeping control distributed. Ethereum had made transactions public, yet developers still needed servers and custom databases to make se…