Friday, August 30, 2024

How to Measure and Improve Cohort Retention | Startup School



David Lieb, co-founder of Bump which became Google Photos, a group partner at YCombinator, explains how to measure and improve cohort retention of users for startups.

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Friday, June 16, 2023

Twitter Spaces Replay | Why AI Will Save the World With Marc Andreessen


On a recent Twitter Spaces, a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen discusses with Anton Troynikov, founder of Chroma, his recent important post on "Why AI Will Save the World."

TIMESTAMPS: (00:00) Episode Preview (1:20) Why Marc wrote this essay now (02:30) Recap of AI History over last 80 years (04:05) Hysteria, paranoia, doomerism (06:00) Intelligence is the fundamental building block (06:33) Marc steelmans his opponents arguments (09:47) Precautionary principle and nuclear technology debate (11:45) The AI Race, China & AI supremacy (15:10) Regulation (22:53) Cold War dynamics (18:12) What should the government do? (20:42) Analogy Period: 2nd Industrial Revolution (23:23) AI and centralization (29:48) AI hype cycle, speculation, investment (35:59) Questions from audience members including Beff Jezos + Amjad Masad

note: thanks Eric Torenberg and his MoZ podcast for posting the Twitter Spaces to YouTube

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Monday, June 12, 2023

Conversation with Marc Andreessen, Co-Founder of a16z and Qasar Younis, CEO of Applied Intuition


Marc Andreessen and Qasar Younis
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Marc Andreessen is co-founder of a16z (Andreessen Horowitz) and Qasar Younis is co-founder and CEO of Applied Intuition and former COO of Y Combinator.

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Jony Ive on Lessons from Steve Jobs


Jony Ive on Lessons from Steve Jobs

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