Dmitry Shapiro

CarlosX360 responds to MKBHD's review of Humane's "AI Pin" https://lnkd.in/g-4pPkNJ The #Startups ecosystem in #SiliconValley is buzzing about Humane's horrible "A.I. Pin" launch. #Tech #Technology #Startup #VentureCapital #VC #AngelInvestor #AngelInvestors #Investor #Investors

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We’re experiencing a massive platform shift to LLMs. Lightspeed's Michael Mignano and I discussed what this shift means for Grammarly, what the industry needs to do to ensure #genAI adoption and value creation, and where I predict true efficiency gains through AI will come from. Hint: it’s not about creating more content. Thanks for having me on, Michael! https://lnkd.in/gpruc99i

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As I educate myself in the venture capital realm, I learn about the ups and downs of the startup world. The Lacework news is interesting because when a startup is overvalued, it means its market price is higher than its true business value. If it's later bought for much less than its inflated valuation, it indicates that the market has corrected its perception of the company's worth. This situation can be tough for the original investors and founders who may face significant financial losses, as they won't get back as much money as they expected. It can also affect the startup's reputation and the morale of its team, as such a stark adjustment in value can lead to doubts about the business’s viability and future prospects. Not sure if this is true for this situation, but I have been told it occurs more often than not. #VC #stealth #startups #cloud #cybersecurity #VentureCapital #learnNewThings

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App Else Announces Revolutionary New Screen Time Features for Protecting Children Cupertino, California - June 11, 2024 - Else App Inc. is thrilled to announce the release of our long-awaited, cutting-edge new features for Screen Time, powered by Apple iOS and designed to provide parents with enhanced tools to protect their children from excessive and uncontrolled screen time and cyberbullying. With a commitment to fostering safe and balanced digital experiences for young users, these new features bring powerful solutions to the fingertips of families worldwide. New features include: 1.⁠ ⁠Time For a Break: Introducing the groundbreaking “Else Break” feature, which mandates a 10-minute break every 30 minutes of continuous screen use. This break helps reduce cognitive fatigue, promotes healthier screen habits, and encourages children to engage in other activities. It serves as a gentle reminder to balance digital time with other enriching experiences. 2.⁠ ⁠Digital Wellness Coaching: Children are invited to complete a weekly well-being questionnaire to reflect on their emotional state and how their screen time affects their daily life. This self-assessment encourages children to recognize the impact of their digital habits on their overall well-being. 3.⁠ ⁠Real-Time “Free Time” Tracker: Our innovative real-time tracker displays the amount of free time children have left each week, calculated based on an average of 20 hours. This visual representation helps children and parents understand the impact of screen time on their overall free time, promoting mindful usage. 4.⁠ ⁠Else Academy: Else Academy offers a library of educational content tailored to both parents and children. These resources cover essential topics like the impact of screen time on mental and physical health, digital addiction, and strategies for balanced screen usage. The Academy aims to educate and empower families to make informed decisions about their digital lives. 5.⁠ ⁠Collaborative Installation Process: The installation process of our new features is designed to be collaborative, involving both parents and children. This approach fosters open communication and mutual understanding, ensuring that the settings reflect the family’s needs and the child’s perspective. It culminates in a symbolic “contract of trust” signed by both parent and child, reinforcing a sense of shared responsibility. 6.⁠ ⁠Positive Reinforcement and Notifications: To support the development of healthy screen habits, children receive positive reinforcement and encouraging notifications about their screen time usage. These notifications help them stay aware of their screen time and celebrate their progress in managing it effectively. Availability: All these features are available today from the App Store France and in a few weeks from all the App Store around the world.

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Love this new Case Study around Digital.ai Application Protection Solution for a number of reasons. 1) It's a great story with clear and meaningful outcomes for the client. 2) It's a super cool use case, in the live media and content streaming market. 3) Much of the noise from vendors playing in this space is around protecting just Mobile Applications. The reality is that Enterprises have other platforms as well. Here at Digital.ai we protect Mobile (IOS, Android AND Hybrid), Web and Desktop Applications, a truly ENTERPRISE platform in a market where organisations are consolidating from multiple point solutions. Read the case study here and learn more about why we are at the leading edge of #DevSecOps and #Application #Security https://lnkd.in/eGjbvgmb ps - We also have a truly game changing solution to allow automated functional, performance and accessibility testing of a fully protected application....

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This is the beginning of the consolidation of GPTs in the consumer space. ChatGPT has such a massive mindshare and brand recognition that it may not be possible for other LLM vendors to grow in the consumer market. This creates a "the big get bigger" loop; the more users use, the more data the LLM vendors get to improve the foundation models. The same growth cycle that Google Search went through made it difficult for other players like Bing to grow the market share. FM would be a duopoly, with two vendors taking 80% of the market share.

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It's uncommon to see innovation in a product that has been chugging along at the same level for decades. But Mark Adams, Keeri Tramm, Holden Page, and Bo Frize are building something special with our RealTrends Verified business. For those that don't know about RealTrends Verified, it's the one real estate rankings program that uses double-verified data (from the agent and their brokerage). Steve Murray and Tracey Velt had been operating the rankings for decades before we acquired the business. Ever since we acquired the business, we've noticed that our ranking pages have pretty impressive SEO juice. Try searching for "best real estate agents" or "best real estate agents in Texas", and you'll see a RealTrends page pretty high your results. This year, we're going to start leveraging this SEO juice with an expansion of RealTrends Verified into city pages. Now people will be able to search for "best real estate agents in Dallas", and find top agents in their city. We'll drill down even further into neighborhoods and zip codes in the coming years. If you're a brokerage or team leader, or a top agent in your city, please check out our new city pages! https://lnkd.in/eTGVHsaN

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PolyAI just announced its Series C fundraising with participation from Hedosophia, NVIDIA, Khosla Ventures. I've spent the last 5 years in the voice AI space, the last 18 months at PolyAI, and there is a reason PolyAI is the leading technology worldwide. The passion of PolyAI's people, the innovators who are ready and enabled to bring this technology to their businesses, and the end-users who are tickled pink by their interactions with our voice assistants in 15 languages and counting. This is just the beginning for us. The early adopters have deployed our technology and now the rest of the innovators will follow. If you are ready for meaningful change to your cx, look no further, you've found the best technology on the planet. #polyai #fundraising #fundraise #nvidia #khosla #innovation #genai #generativeai #voiceai #voiceassistants #pressrelease #news #fundraisingnews #cx #airevolution #customerservice #contactcenter #callcenter

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Excited to officially introduce Layouts - customizable filters and views to track POs and production on a granular level. 🍚 A Director of Ops we work with wanted two things: Complete control and complete flexibility when it comes to managing their production runs. With granular logic powering layouts, operators saw an immediate impact thanks to: ⚡️ Advanced filters (Vendors, Expected Ship Dates, Payment Status, Tags +) ⚡️ Saving custom layouts for your team to monitor (eg; POs where invoice is unpaid but status is received, etc.) ⚡️ Ability to toggle between multiple layouts (Classic Apparel Vendors, Footwear POs, etc.) Centro Layouts gives you the flexibility to filter and customize your PO data to see exactly what you need, when you need it. Save time flipping through spreadsheets and fast track critical decision making. Drop a comment or send me a DM if you want to see a quick demo of Centro Commerce in action. :) #inventorymanagement #procurement #production #brandoperators #shopify

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In a previous post, I mentioned that #VentureStudios enable their #founders to focus on testing their hypothesis and building and iterating on their product. But how do they do it? Through their #Platform, a game-changing function for ventures that includes: 🖨 Back-Office consists of HR for building talent pipelines, taking care of payroll, and administering benefits; IT to support critical tech infrastructure, including cybersecurity and collaboration tools; Legal helps form entities, navigate complex regulations and compliance issues, and optimize tax position for founders and investors; and Accounting maintains accurate reporting and empowers the ventures with insights into their financial status 💻 Shared Vendors. Bundling services provides ventures access to bulk pricing and cost-effective options for things like computers, cloud storage, and even outsourced professional services (like Legal or Accounting) 🏢 Facilities. Co-working spaces enable convenient collaboration and grant easy access to essential Studio resources, both of which help to foster an exciting culture of innovation 🚀 By providing these services across a portfolio of ventures (and to the Studio itself!), allows the costs to be amortized and avails top-notch support and favorable pricing to startups who would not otherwise have access to so much support so early in their journey.

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Thanks Joanne Chen and Jaya G. from Foundation Capital for the nod! Great to be in the cohort of top notch AI companies. Observability data is untapped goldmine of information, but when the time comes (in the middle of incident), it still requires "expert" skills to find the needle in the haystack. We at Deductive AI are democratizing the expertise to everyone in the organization.

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👮🏻‍♂️ With TikTok facing a potential ban in the U.S., the social media landscape could see big shifts! Wedbush Securities predicts big wins for Meta & Google in ad revenue, as users might flock to Instagram & YouTube. But... TikTok has a huge cloud infrastructure spending (saw $5b+ annual spending analysis 🤯), especially on Oracle Cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS) Google Cloud Akamai Technologies, and others. A ban would be a substantial revenue hit on those vendors 😬 #tiktok #geopolitics #cloud #infrastructure #cloudspending #cdn #storage #cloudcompute #security #contentmoderation #isp https://lnkd.in/gZ6ZPR4V

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Restrictive, outdated platforms are leaving potential revenue on the table.  If this strikes a cord, what’s preventing you from making a move? While re-platforms are often thought of as daunting, complicated, and slowwww projects... times have changed. Today, huge and complex re-platforms can happen a lot more seamlessly than you might realize. Last fall, my team at Anatta launched a $1.5B enterprise retailer on a new platform, at 100% DTC capabilities… in just 90 days(!). If you feel stalled or stuck, exploring a more modern, well-optimized platform is likely just what you need. And the benefits of doing so are numerous, including: > Better scalability > Increased speed to market > Effective future-proofing You don’t want to fall behind or get phased out of eCommerce because your platform isn’t as fast, flexible, and scalable as the one your competitors are leveraging.  Not when you have other options at the ready, and technology partners, like our team at Anatta, who can help you move faster.  Not sure when you should move platforms? Not sure what platforms could meet your needs? Shoot me a DM here on LinkedIn. I’m happy to support.  #ecommerceplatform

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It’s exciting to witness how the hyperscalers are enabling a hyper-collaborative marketplace ecosystem that allows the multiplication of revenue opportunities. I see this happening in two ways 1️⃣ ISVs are being encouraged by hyperscalers to build with interoperability in mind 🔧 All three #hyperscalers have, over the course of the last few years, incrementally deepened their partnerships with on-page "competitors" like Salesforce and Snowflake to break data silos and leverage #GenAI on more comprehensive data sets. AWS, GCP and Azure are not just strengthening their own associations, but they are also actively encouraging collaboration between these ISVs to drive interoperability, aimed at the creation of joint solutions that significantly expand the universe of customers who can benefit. Snowflake’s most recent Polaris Catalog launch also reaffirms its commitment to interoperability with a wider library of industry players (beyond the three clouds) including hyperscaler partners like Salesforce and Confluent. That brings me to point 2…. 2️⃣ Hyperscalers are actively inviting the participation of channel partners to piece complementary solutions together 🤝 As ISVs focus on creating compatible offerings with each other, and with hyperscaler services, buyers have the opportunity to find end-to-end solutions for specific use cases right from the marketplace catalog. To do so, they’re relying on partners to identify, connect and manage these increasingly complex technologies. This presents a tremendous opportunity for channel partners to add value to these marketplace-led deals by helping piece solutions together into a comprehensive whole. Hyperscalers are also cognizant that the “channel is the glue between them and the lower enterprise, midmarket and SMB,” as I’ve hear my friend and founder of Ultimate Partner Vince Menzione put it, and are actively developing strategies to incorporate channels into marketplace deal workflows. There’s a clear signal to shift the perception of marketplaces from being potential threats to traditional partnership associations, to what they really are – growth opportunities. Channel partners who recognize this sooner rather than later, have biggest opportunity to capture net new business.

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Join the Sui Overflow hackathon and compete for a share of $5000 in Sui by integrating BlockEden.xyz's RPC and Indexer services. Learn how to participate, the prize distribution, and judging criteria in our latest blog post. Discover the benefits of using BlockEden.xyz and start building your innovative project today!

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BIG product update here at Forwrd.ai! 🔥 Improved business logic editor 🔥 Enhanced usability for data modeling. [link in the comments] Our north star product metric is TIME TO VALUE ⏳ Achieving faster time to value often requires re-writing core product modules. These engineering tasks are complex and can be time-consuming. It’s natural to delay these crucial updates, pushing them to “later” until they become unmanageable. My recommendation: Incorporate these vital tasks into your backlog on a monthly basis. Trust me, the payoff is worth it. Regularly addressing core updates not only enhances performance but also ensures a seamless user experience. #Startup #ProductManagement 

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SAAS like margins, best in class SAAS type growth. Nvidia is a scary beast. Their results continue to astound Revenue +18% Q/Q to $26.0B ($1.5B beat). • Gross margin 78% (+2pp Q/Q). • Operating margin 65% (+3pp Q/Q). • Non-GAAP EPS $6.12 ($0.54 beat). • Dividend raised by 150%. Q2 FY25 guidance: • Revenue ~$28.0B ($1.2B beat).

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Part II -- Roqad did an AMA event on Jon Walsh's "Identity & Measurement" WhatsApp group 3 weeks ago, and I'm sharing the excellent questions that we received during the wonderful session!! [5/21/24, 4:03:58 PM] ~ Lucy: hey, thanks Carsten - quick (hopefully) question - can your data be used in direct buys rather than programmatic only? [5/21/24, 4:08:35 PM] Anil Kutty: Our graph data is not constrained to a specific setup and can be used in direct buys as well as long as there are "anchor data" available to query our graph. These identifiers could be universal identifiers, Hashed emails, mobile identifiers, cookies, IP address etc [5/21/24, 4:07:15 PM] ~ Lucy: how is your identity graph different to LiveRamp’s? and what match rates do you see? ‎ [5/21/24, 4:09:58 PM] Carsten Frien: We cover all of NA and EU/UK, I think LR does not have continental European coverage. Our graph is high reach, we have data for 80-90% of the population, depending on the geo [5/21/24, 4:10:39 PM] ~ Streets: Do you think that cookies are actually going away in 2025? [5/21/24, 4:13:01 PM] Carsten Frien: Hard question, I am convinced Google will deprecate cookies in 2025, many senior and very respected leaders from Google have publicly declared that they will deprecate cookies. [5/21/24, 4:07:24 PM] ~ George Nicholls: Hi George Nicholls from dentsu X here. How could an airline like United Airlines work with Roqad to gain market share from British Airways flights between the UK and USA? [5/21/24, 4:13:28 PM] Anil Kutty: UA would need some access to airline commuter data in that sector (offline or from their own CRM), they would then try to get mapping of those offline identifiers to online ones (MAID, cookies, IP addresses) from Roqad by interesecting that commuter data with our Identity graph. With this cross-device dataset they can run a campaign in The Trade Desk or other DSPs targeting these users across web and mobile. [5/21/24, 4:11:19 PM] ~ Lucy: so what does a match rate look like for a company that has 3m email addresses in the UK? [5/21/24, 4:15:13 PM] Alasdair Cross: Hi Lucy. I'ts Alasdair, VP Sales. We are beginning the roll-out of our UK HEM (hashed Email) to MAID to IP data onboarding solution. Therefore the match  rates will start low and build.  We would hope to have a minimum 50% match  rate for your client by the end of the year.

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Nice news from Multi and OpenAI! Well aligned with this trend, eyeson is accelerating its approach to make the integration of AI with Interactive Video & omnimedia easier than ever. [Link to the article]. #AI #omnimedia #videocollaboration #visionAI

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