Nine months after the release of ChatGPT, this is a question that suddenly quite a few people are asking. AI luminaries such as Gary Marcus and François Chollet as well as respected industry analysts such as Ben Evans are openly postulating that Gen AI might not be the civilization-changing, business-disrupting Read more…
We’re currently hearing a lot about how generative AI, particularly large language models like ChatGPT, could replace white-collar knowledge workers. And venture capitalists are, at least in a large part of their job, knowledge workers. So which parts of a VC’s job could AI take over? To start with the Read more…
Entrepreneurs and startup investors make bets on the future. That’s the nature of building startups. In order to do that well, you need to make correct predictions about which markets (and specific startup ideas) are going to be successful. It’s well-known that that’s difficult, but how hard is it really? Read more…
It’s probably fairly obvious that the smartphone has been the most impactful technological innovation of the past two decades. Few technologies have influenced daily life as much as the always-connected supercomputers we carry in our pockets. The smartphone has changed how we communicate, work, shop, travel, consume media, date, socialize Read more…