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Rebecca Chiu shared thisRebecca Chiu shared thisICYMI, The nine biggest announcements from our Google I/O keynote yesterday
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Rebecca Chiu shared thisI’m thrilled to share that Google is sponsoring the upcoming @BigCommerce conference – and that two of our leaders are delivering the keynote. Join us to hear Mary Ellen Coe and @WilliamReady talk about ways you can reach new customers and grow your business. Register now for the Sept. 14 & 15 virtual event → https://lnkd.in/gqyC7Ueq
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Rebecca Chiu shared thisbig announcement and investment from Google to help make retailers of all sizes succeed.Rebecca Chiu shared thisWe’re continuing to invest in an open ecosystem where all merchants can succeed, from the world’s largest retailers to the mom-and-pop shop down your street. Take a look at the announcements we shared at #GML2021 today! https://lnkd.in/gEU-CCx
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Rebecca Chiu shared thisMust read from mckinsey's Women in the Workforce report on how covid-19 is impacting men and women differently. https://lnkd.in/gJ7UfC8Women in the Workplace 2024: The 10th-anniversary reportWomen in the Workplace 2024: The 10th-anniversary report
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Rebecca Chiu shared thisStark contrast of the impact of the government action and public health policy on economy: -32% GDP growth in US vs. 3% in China. When will the US dig out of this economic gloomy hole? #changeleadership
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Rebecca Chiu shared thisDeloitte and Google Cloud have teamed up to make healthcare and life sciences more googley. Congrats team!Rebecca Chiu shared thisUseful industry solutions are a team sport. Deloitte and Google Cloud have a powerful HCLS partnership that is more compelling than ever with capabilities ready today for researchers, providers and academia. #letsgetsolving #deloitteconsulting #googlecloud #gcp Joe Corkery Aashima Gupta Chris Sakalosky Shweta Singh Maniar Amy Waldron Jonathan Sheffi Juergen Klenk Beth Meagher Pallab Deb Tom Galizia Philip Moyer Ilia Tulchinsky
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Rebecca Chiu shared thisRebecca Chiu shared thisAs COVID-19 has spread globally, people are turning to governments, healthcare organizations, and other businesses with questions about their health and wellness, finances, and more. This sudden, unprecedented demand is putting strain on customer support resources, and many organizations are telling us that they’re struggling to respond to customers effectively during this critical time. Here is one way in which Google Cloud is helping. #healthcare #googlecloud #covid19Support for Contact Centers during COVID-19 | Google Cloud BlogSupport for Contact Centers during COVID-19 | Google Cloud Blog
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Rebecca Chiu shared thisOne woman CEO shares her experience on pregnancy and creating culture of work/life balance #pregnancy #maternity https://lnkd.in/gTr38ke
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Rebecca Chiu shared thisPartnership between Mayo Clinic and Google Cloud. #googlecloud #partnershipRebecca Chiu shared thisWe are proud to partner with Mayo Clinic to transform patient and clinician experiences, improve diagnostics and patient outcomes, & advance clinical research → https://lnkd.in/e-FHBYp
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Rebecca Chiu liked thisRebecca Chiu liked thisI enjoyed chatting with Fortune's Sharon Goldman at HumanX about the challenges facing AI adoption in the enterprise, and why there’s no AI strategy without a security strategy. Here are some themes: This AI wave is much faster and bigger than what we saw with the web or mobile. A focused approach is required to drive real impact. Many companies take a “thousand flowers blooming” approach which results in mostly dead flowers. Instead, focus on 5-7 high-impact use cases. AI is also transforming the cybersecurity - new threat actors, new techniques, new attack surfaces - requiring a new cyberdefense strategy. We cannot fight machine-speed attacks with human-speed defense. We need to fight AI with AI. AI agents, alongside human security teams, can respond instantly to threats.
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Rebecca Chiu liked thisRebecca Chiu liked thisJust wrapped up an incredible week at Stanford University for the "Harnessing AI for Business Impact" program! 🌲✨ It was a fantastic experience, and a huge shoutout to professors Paul Oyer of Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Mykel Kochenderfer of Stanford University Department of Computer Science for hosting such an insightful and engaging course. It was also so inspiring to listen to the groundbreaking research happening across different subjects—including Biology, Medicine, chip designs and autonomous systems—using the latest AI techniques! 🧬🏥🚗 If your organization is looking to integrate AI, here are 5 of my biggest takeaways: 🎯 Lead with the Problem: Always start with a concrete understanding of the business problem before jumping into methods or technologies. 📊 Clean Data is Non-Negotiable: Start collecting data even before you have a concrete use case; there is no compromise for having clean, high-integrity data. 🛑 Avoid Building Foundation Models: Fine-tuning weights from scratch is often unnecessary. Prioritize simple prompting or retrieval techniques instead. 🧪 Validation is Everything: Consistent validation is critical both before and after deployment, and can represent more than 90% of the total development effort. 🚀 Deploy Incrementally: Don't follow the hype! Focus on taking "baby steps" to build organizational confidence, keep it simple, and prioritize long-term ROI to ensure sustainable business growth. As cherry on top, it was great to have Anna Goldie join a session to talk about the innovative work she is doing at Ricursive Intelligence, super cool and good luck! 💡🤖
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Rebecca Chiu reacted on thisRebecca Chiu reacted on thisAs NASA's Artemis II crew returns to Earth after a historic journey around the Moon, I'm proud of the role that AWS played in supporting that mission. For the first time in more than 50 years, astronauts traveled beyond low Earth orbit. NASA's flight sciences team used Amazon EC2 in AWS GovCloud as a primary compute platform for trajectory analysis, the precision calculations that ensure the spacecraft stays on its exact path around the Moon and back, especially in the critical first 48 hours after launch. And the incredible 4K images and video from Orion were transmitted by NASA's Orion Artemis II Optical Communications System over the AWS global network. As NASA looks ahead to the planned lunar landing in 2028, we're honored to support what comes next. Congratulations to Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen. Welcome home! NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Rebecca Chiu liked thisWe are asking 22-year-olds to choose a career path for a workforce that doesn’t exist yet and then wondering why they look like a deer in the headlights! Such great perspective from Jason P. CarrollRebecca Chiu liked thisWe’re asking 22-year-olds to choose a career path for a workforce that doesn’t exist yet. Then we’re surprised when they seem lost. I heard a generational expert say he genuinely feels for people trying to figure out what expertise to build right now - because AI is going to change things faster than anyone can predict. That stuck with me. Because here’s what’s actually happening: Entry-level roles expect senior-level output. Confidence in college degrees has dropped from 75% to 35% in fifteen years. And companies are quietly pulling back on junior hiring while debating whether degrees even matter. Meanwhile, a 21-year-old is texting their parents: “I don’t know how I’m going to live the kind of life you’re living.” That’s not entitlement. That’s uncertainty at scale. And our response? Force them into a system built for a different era. Then label them when it doesn’t work. But the label isn’t the issue. The system is. Leadership right now isn’t about getting Gen Z to fit the mold. It’s about understanding what they’re wired for—and building around it. That’s not soft. That’s strategy. The companies that figure this out will outpace the ones still debating policy tweaks and perks. What’s one assumption you’re holding about younger workers that might be wrong? #FutureOfWork #GenZ #HumanResources #AI
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Rebecca Chiu liked thisRebecca Chiu liked thisAt Russell Spitzer 's keynote at Iceberg Summit. Already met a bunch of old friends Ravi Chikkam Vinayak Borkar Maximilian Michels
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Rebecca Chiu liked thisRebecca Chiu liked thisI'm excited to share that I've joined Microsoft as CMO for Windows & Devices. My first few days on campus in Redmond have been energizing. Huge thanks to Yusuf Mehdi, Pavan Davuluri, and the entire team for the incredibly warm welcome. There is an enormous opportunity ahead to build premium hardware like Surface while growing the Windows business for billions of people and organizations around the world. It is a fascinating time to be in technology. We are transitioning into the next phase of computing, and helping steer Windows and our devices into the era of the agentic OS is an incredible opportunity. I'm already engaging deeply with the team on the road ahead—and we are just getting started.
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Rebecca Chiu reacted on thisRebecca Chiu reacted on thisThrilled to share my appointment to the Lahey Hospital & Medical Center Board of Trustees. Having seen Lahey through nearly every lens—summer intern in college, medical student, and lifelong patient—I have a deep appreciation for its role as a pillar of New England healthcare. Today’s healthcare environment requires a new level of integration between clinical rigor and technological innovation. I am eager to contribute to the board's mission as we navigate the next chapter of care delivery.
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Rebecca Chiu liked thisRebecca Chiu liked thisExcited to announce that I’m joining OpenAI to lead the global advertising solutions team. ChatGPT is the fastest growing consumer app in history, now used by over 900 million people weekly. Its uses are as broad as the people and countries that OpenAI serves. For myself, I use it daily for the simple (“Make a grid converting treadmill MPH to mile pace”) and the critical (“What are good conversation starters for a family member with memory loss?”). It saves me time; it crosses things off my mental list; it supplements my own judgment. Many times, I’ve thought that a relevant, targeted offer that I could click to finish a task would help me even more. This is a brand new model that’s going to re-shape the industry, and I’m thrilled to be joining the ads team that’s building just that. I’ve been hugely impressed by the team at OpenAI, and joining a group of the world’s foremost experts that will bring new advertising solutions to the market. Users rely on ChatGPT as a trusted source delivered in a simple, clean experience, and our ads platform will respect those expectations, be governed by clear principles, and be additive to the user experience. The beginning will be ads solutions inside the ChatGPT consumer experience, which is currently in alpha testing. I’ve always enjoyed working across the full range of industry partners - delivering results for advertisers, and collaborating with agencies, consultancies, and other partners to do it together. Our approach will be AI native, and built in a fundamentally different way from other platforms given the new technologies that OpenAI has developed. We’ll be scaling this team quickly, and looking for passionate talent who are ready to roll up sleeves and be central players in this critical moment in the industry. We’ll build the culture and experience together. Let’s go!
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Brittany Boals Moeller
Goldman Sachs • 6K followers
In the San Francisco Bay Area, founders are relentless about growing and scaling their companies. They spot opportunity, scale through uncertainty, and create companies that redefine industries. Recently, we gathered a group of founders and tech leaders to discuss the intersection of company growth and long-term personal success. Eric S. Yuan, Founder and CEO of Zoom Communications, shared the inspiring story behind his company’s growth and eventual IPO. Eric reiterated that the founders who create the most impact don’t just plan for an exit – they prepare for what comes after. Too often, personal wealth planning lags company growth, and that gap can become costly at the most pivotal moments. The rest of the evening was focused on closing that gap. Our colleagues in Goldman Sachs Investment Banking, Pawan Tewari and Nick Giovanni, shared a candid outlook for M&A and IPOs in this environment, along with important steps founders should take to prepare for a strategic exit. We ended with a conversation around the key considerations for maximizing founders’ personal outcomes. Pre-transaction planning isn’t defensive - it’s opportunistic. Your company’s exit strategy and your family’s long-term planning work should not be done in isolation. When investment banking and private wealth work in sync, founders can cohesively optimize outcomes on all sides of the equation. To learn more about the practical “do’s and don'ts” for founders, we are happy to share our ‘Goldman guide’ for navigating wealth planning, business exists, and IPOs: https://lnkd.in/ewhEGjV3. Thank you, Eric, and to all the founders who joined us at The Battery in SF. On behalf of Goldman Sachs Private Wealth Management and Investment Banking, we look forward to the next conversation.
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Daniel Dart
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Neil Tewari
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Matt Rappaport
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Jeff James Martin
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"We've become so insular in who we talk to and listen to, and I didn't realize how much that was keeping me in tunnel vision and tunnel thinking." Seth Levine, Co-Author of Capital Evolution and Partner at Foundry, talks about seeking out more diversity of thought on Tech Scenes Unplugged. #venturebacked #vcbacked #venturecapital #leadership #ceo #founder #operatingsystem #peakOS #foundermode
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Brittany Walker
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Voice is a super interesting modality right now - maybe the first modality we're seeing move to open source models across a number of scale ups / enterprises. Reliability concerns, high costs, and open source model performance are pushing engineers to do their own fine tuning vs. relying on third-party vendors of proprietary models. Many of these orgs have already been collecting their own first-party data and now with third-party vendors like Extrian, David AI, etc they can train really high quality models. RL has been insanely hyped, but it's been unclear how long it will take scale ups and enterprises to actually lean in. Voice AI might be hitting that inflection point faster than expected.
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Josh Muccio
The Pitch • 7K followers
We first backed Kavitta Ghai and the Nectir team at seed in 2024. They raised $1.4M from VCs on our show, and then deployed across the California Community College system (2.1M students, 116 colleges). Today they announced a $12.5M Series A led by Rethink Impact. We followed on. If you haven't been paying attention to what's happening in AI and education, this is worth your attention. Nectir is the FERPA compliant AI infrastructure layer purpose-built for schools. The results from peer-reviewed research: 20% increase in GPA. 13% rise in final scores. 36% boost in intrinsic motivation to learn. Students are also staying enrolled and finishing their degrees. This isn't ChatGPT for homework. It's a personalized learning partner that knows your textbooks, assignments, and lectures. Plus it gives schools safe AI infrastructure for everything from FAFSA advising to career coaching. The vision is all 50 states. Every institution in the US is going to need safe AI infrastructure. Nectir is building it. Proud to be backing Kavitta and the team twice.
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Dave Messina
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Biopharma teams generate oceans of data, yet still spend weeks assembling spreadsheets before they can even start asking “What’s next?” Argon AI flips that equation. Their AI-native workspace turns scattered clinical, market, and competitive data into decision-ready insights, so scientists and strategists can spend their time on better science, smarter strategy, and faster paths to patients. When you cut the data drudgery out of drug development, you don’t just make workflows nicer, you help lifesaving therapies reach the people who need them sooner. Congrats to the Argon team on the raise and the relentless execution behind it. Excited for what’s ahead. Pioneer Fund and I are proud to support Samy Danesh and Argon AI!
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Lakshmi Shankar
Together • 3K followers
Thrilled to announce that Together Fund is investing in Sentra, alongside a16z speedrun! You track results in Jira. Decisions in Notion. Conversations in Slack. But the reasoning, the debates, trade-offs, and context behind why you chose A over B, disappears into what we call "Dark Matter." A decision made in March looks insane by July because no one remembers the constraints that made it smart. I lived this firsthand at Twitter scaling from 800 to 8,000 employees, and at Google while launching AI Overviews to billions at planet scale. The problem isn't process. Process is compensation for something deeper: organizational amnesia. An organization’s "Systems of Record" doesn’t solve this, they encode it. They store what happened, never why. That's why we are investing in Sentra. Sentra is the always-on collective memory that eliminates organizational amnesia by maintaining accurate context for all members and agents, functioning as an operational nervous system. It connects to every channel where work happens, meetings, Slack, email, code commits, docs, calendars, and treats them not as artifacts to search, but as living signals to synthesize. The fleeting and the permanent, unified into a memory that understands. The founding team is built for this: - Jae Gwan Park (CEO): Product-first founder, memory systems research at UofT and MIT - Ashwin Gopinath (CSO): Former MIT professor, created "Reflexion" (NeurIPS 2023), agents that learn from mistakes, 2x founder - Andrey Starenky (CTO): Early Vapi engineer, ex-IBM, built to process enterprise-scale data firehose Together is an operator-led fund. We invest in problems we've lived. This is one of them. Many congrats Jae, Ashwin and Andrey, we are so excited to partner with you! Read the full thesis: https://lnkd.in/gixj9cE4 Book a demo: https://www.sentra.app/ #OrganizationalMemory #AI #Sentra #TogetherFund #a16z #ContextGraphs
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Nick Grossman
Union Square Ventures • 4K followers
I spoke w/ Cloudflare co-founder & CEO Matthew Prince for the latest ep of the Slow Hunch podcast. Since 2010, Matthew and his team have built Cloudflare into one of the most important companies on the internet: powering and protecting vast portions of global traffic. I’ve known Matthew since Union Square Ventures’ investment in Cloudflare’s Series C back in 2013, and it was really fun tracing his slow hunch, right from those early days. We covered: - how he met co-founders Michelle Zatlyn and Lee Holloway - the early experiments and risks that shaped Cloudflare - stories from the company’s pre-IPO days - the decision to make encryption free - how their infra ended up running 2 of the internet’s 13 root servers - his thoughts on AI (esp the transition from a search-driven internet to an answer-driven one) Hope you enjoy!
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Hugo Fdez.-Mardomingo
Acurio Ventures • 5K followers
🦄 $150M to improve tutoring and education globally. Preply just announced a new round, putting the company on a clear trajectory to become an iconic global marketplace. In a world obsessed with fast wins and volatile growth, some companies quietly beat their goals year after year — for more than 6 years in this case (as long as we’ve at Acurio Ventures been partners). A few learnings from this journey, relevant for founders and investors: Pick a growing market with an unsolved problem. 2 out of 8 billion people globally are learning a second language. Despite many options, outcomes are still poor. Our original thesis was simple: if you build the reference platform, everyone who wants to learn will eventually come to you. Category leadership matters. When we backed Kirill Bigai and Dmytro Voloshyn back in 2019 (together with Rob Kniaz), there were dozens of similar startups. Small details showed Preply had already built a superior tutor base and a scalable growth engine. Build a product customers love. Speaking a language and teaching it are very different things. Preply transformed the learning experience by combining a motivated base of +100,000 tutors with tools that actually drive outcomes. Never stop experimenting. Few companies maintain a strong experimentation culture as they scale. Preply’s DNA reminded me of Booking.com — enabling them to execute 10x better than most marketplaces. Great companies turn every change into an opportunity. From riding the post-COVID shift to online learning, to betting early and heavily on AI as Dmytro Voloshyn has excelled at. What once sounded like sci-fi is now reality. Great companies become talent magnets A company maturity can't be addressed only by looking at the revenue, profit or product. I like to see how much better they become at attracting talent and retaining it. Proud that Acurio Ventures made this possible and the WestCap team saw things as bullish as we do and are now supporting the next phase of Preply’s journey. Huge congratulations to the entire Preply team!!
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