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Announcing the inaugural AI✦NY Summit, exclusively for CEOs shaping the AI ecosystem, cohosted by FirstMark and @BatteryVentures! Including more than 150 CEOs, and featuring... @c_valenzuelab of @runwayml @AmandaKahlow of 1mind & 6Sense @kareemamin of @clay @akofoid of @databricks Kunal Madhok, EVP of AI, Wells Fargo Rob Chisholm, Partner, Qatalyst Partners Amin Venjara, Chief Data Officer, ADP Tom Haslam, Principal, Data, Analytics & AI, KPMG And co-hosted by @amishjani (FirstMark), and @NeerajVC (Battery) Special thanks to @FifthThird @golub @KPMG @CooleyLLP @googlecloud, and @qatalystgroup

We nailed voice cloning and latency, now robustness, putting Gradium TTS on the Pareto frontier across all three. Our development cycle is getting faster, expect new improvements very soon!

Just went to visit Legora. Most impressive startup I've been to visit in years. They're going to surpass Harvey in 2027. After that their only potential rivals will be the model companies. And if ever there was a territory you could defend against the model companies, law is it.

Columbia in Tech’s annual Spring Reunion at @FirstMarkCap — welcoming 100+ alumni building, operating and investing in NYC’s tech ecosystem 🦁 Grateful for the community and energy CIT continues to bring together! So much drive and heart in one room. Thank you @angeliuuuuu for co-hosting 💙🫶

Stripe Treasury is growing super quickly! (Also @daytonaio is a very cool product.)

Off-the-record, entirely focused on company-building, and exclusively for senior technology executives. If that's you, and you'd like to join us, apply to attend at: forms.gle/mQj6piaMKBTey7… Space is extremely limited.

Speaking at FirstMark's Guilds Summit on June 16 in NYC: Cofounder & CEO, Datadag CEO, Tubi Chief People Officer, Airbnb CFO, Legora Chief Data & AI Officer, Snowflake Head of People, Clay CFO, Shopify Chief Product Officer, Okta Head of Americas, Enterprise, Anthropic Cofounder & CTO, Braze VP Sales, Vercel CMO, Bilt Rewards CFO, Ramp COO, Harvey CFO, Circle CRO, Synthesia Cofounder & CPO, Wealthsimple CFO, Runway Chief People Officer, Headway Cofounder & CTO, Factory Head of Product, Glean CRO, Brex CFO, Mercury Chief People Officer, HungryRoot VP, Global People & Places, Airwallex + more to be announced!

AI folks in NYC -- Data Driven NYC (#121) this Tuesday at 6pm. Come meet fellow AI builders and our speakers: * @RampLabs has been cooking lately with a lot of agentic innovation; Alex Levinson will demo * @EstuaryDev provides unified data infra for AI - CEO @dyaffe RSVP: luma.com/ddnyc121

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Private transactions are here. Payy’s privacy-by-design approach unlocks the next generation of stablecoin adoption for people and enterprises. Onchain payment infrastructure wasn't built for the speed, scale, or privacy that modern businesses demand. We're partnering with @raincards to change that. Payy Network is bringing safe, secure, private transactions to the next $3B in stablecoin payments. Coming Soon.

Every time I hit a complex edge case in SurrealDB, I find a simpler, more elegant solution—arrays, graph edges, you name it. This is truly built by devs, for devs. 🔥 @SurrealDB team

Huge congratulations to @FirstMarkCap portfolio companies @WeAreLegora and @synthesiaIO on being named to the 2026 Forbes AI 50! Well deserved recognition for two exceptional teams building impactful, category-defining businesses and executing at an extraordinary level Grateful to be on the journey with you both and excited for what’s ahead!

AI enablement lacks clear ownership in most organizations. 71% report no dedicated person or team responsible for AI enablement, and only 32% have a formal program in place. Without defined ownership, adoption stays uneven.

AI usage in HR is widespread but not yet operationalized. Over 90% of teams are experimenting with AI tools or pilots, but the top barriers are human, (time, fear, resources) not technical.

We survey our People Guild every year to understand how top companies are operating across people, processes, metrics, tools, and platform shifts. Some quick takeaways 🧵