One of the questions I hear a lot is "will AI be as big of a catalyst for a consumer AI wave as mobile?"| Sarah Tavel's Newsletter
Second post on my interview with Borislav Nikolov, CTO of Rekki.| www.sarahtavel.com
New "Becoming AI-native" interview with Rekki's CTO, Borislav Nikolov.| Sarah Tavel's Newsletter
Second post in series interviewing people on how they use AI| Sarah Tavel's Newsletter
With a few examples of fun AI prompts| Sarah Tavel's Newsletter
Series kickoff with Nat Emodi (CEO of Highlight.xyz)| Sarah Tavel's Newsletter
In my last post I talked through the big stack game of poker that is happening with the LLM players.| Sarah Tavel's Newsletter
The next few years is going to make the "$600B Question" look small| Sarah Tavel's Newsletter
I am grateful for all the conversations I've had with founders tackling "sell work, not software" opportunities. Some follow-up reflections from those conversations.| Sarah Tavel's Newsletter
On hiring and retaining employees who act more like founders than employees (update to 2016 post)| Sarah Tavel's Newsletter
Today we’re announcing that Victor Lazarte has joined the firm as our newest General Partner and cofounder.| Sarah Tavel's Newsletter
Another reminder on the value of first principles thinking| Sarah Tavel's Newsletter
AKA you don't want the plumber who can come right away.| Sarah Tavel's Newsletter
[Fell off the weekly-post horse when the SVB stuff went down, but trying to get back on.| www.sarahtavel.com
One of the fascinating things about what's happening in AI is that, rather than be a few distinct moments of technological disruption that unlocks new opportunities for startups (e.g., when Apple launched the AppStore, or integrated a GPS chip into the iPhone), I believe we're going to have a rolling thunder of AI breakthroughs that catalyze startup opportunities.| www.sarahtavel.com
A common trope repeated in the media and behind closed doors is that incumbents, not startups, are best positioned to take advantage of AI. In this line of thinking, AI is a sustaining technology that reinforces the positions of existing players, rather than a disruptive force that empowers new entrants. There is certainly some truth to this perspective, particularly for startups that focused on increasing the productivity of employees pursuing their| www.sarahtavel.com
Almost 7 years ago to the day, I wrote a blog post called "How to build an enduring, multi-billion dollar business: create a 10x product + recast incumbent cost structures".| www.sarahtavel.com
For the past 25 years, application software startups have had a singular focus: increasing company and employee (including developer) productivity.| www.sarahtavel.com
