Topics & People

Revolut
Organization

A financial technology neo-bank identified as an appealing secondary market opportunity.

A new index proposed by Thomas Laffont encompassing eight dominant private or recently public tech companies.

The market consisting of privately held startup companies valued at over $1 billion.

Investor who presented at the Liquidity conference.

Wix
Organization

Website builder company whose CEO recently announced layoffs referencing operational details, sparking debates over AI washing vs actual automation.

Kirkland & Ellis
Organization

Prominent law firm reportedly spending half a billion dollars to build its own frontier AI model.

AI washing
Concept

The practice of companies blaming poor management or overhiring on AI to justify layoffs and boost stock prices.

Zoox
Organization

Self-driving company owned by Amazon, cited in the context of automation displacing human drivers.

Block
Organization

Fintech company that conducted a 50% job cut, which the CEO attributed to AI, though critics suspect 'AI washing'.

CEO of Goldman Sachs who wrote an op-ed stating the AI job apocalypse is overblown.

Abacus
Organization

A startup building hardware and platforms for organizations to run AI locally and build their own models safely.

Linux Foundation
Organization

Open-source consortium supporting the Model Context Protocol to help commoditize AI workflow management.