Sarah Guemouri

Cool to see NVIDIA building on European open-source research 🇫🇷🇪🇺

There's a lot of noise out there.

@safwaankay Beam

I spent the weekend watching over 2,000 TikToks I ended up finding ~400 consumer apps that have gone viral. For every app, I copied and pasted their top 3 TikToks into a Google Sheet, meticulously categorized them into categories , with likes, comments, shares, etc. Comment “beam”, and I’ll DM you the link UPDATE: I got up early af this morning to put a UI on it to make it easily searchable. You can now search for things like: “Calorie” “Note taking” “Ai tool” “Bible” And get relevant results in an instant. It’s free, fast, and ONLY contains content used to promote products.

@n8n_io Site seems down?

Not a prank — folders are officially here! Our most requested feature just dropped in the stable branch. Organize your workspace with: - Unlimited folders - Nested folders - Workflow search within folders Try it now! (Requires Registered Community Edition or a paid plan) Read more: #folders" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">docs.n8n.io/release-notes/… #n8n #ohyeah

@johnrushx Thanks ☺️🙏

Future of Software Companies (my take): TLDR: Independent Founders-led brands will eat the world. • Software creation is expensive. • Developers are costly because they translate English to JavaScript. • LLMs are lowering software creation costs to near zero over time. • Lower costs will lead to exponential growth in the quantity of startups. • One-size-fits-all solutions from corporations will be smashed by ultra-niched solutions that focus only on their audience • These founders will be “distributors” first. Their key talent will be distribution and winning the respect and attention of their niche. • Founder-led companies will replace "Brands." The founder = Brand. • We can already see how Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, MrBeast, and Lex Friedman have stronger distribution than multi-billion corporations. It looks surreal, but it’s facts. • Successful founders of the future won’t be coders-first, just like the new gen of music artists didn't study in conservatories. • VCs will invent a new investment model: investing in people. The sports, movie, and music world has had it for a century now. It'll become mainstream for startup founders and content creators, too.

We’re undergoing a job title paradigm shift: Founder → Curator Engineer → Architect Designer → Tastemaker Marketer → Distribution Hacker HR → Vibe Setter Operations → Agent Orchestrator Social Media Manager → Meme Curator Sales → Community Builder PM → Extinct

The funding gap in Europe is real. Dealroom data powering @atomico's State of European tech report once again, as it turns 10 this year. Proud allies of underdogs, @SGuemouri💪 #soet24 #growth-funding-anchor" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">stateofeuropeantech.com/chapters/inves…

@dealroomco @atomico Thank you for being such a longstanding partner, helping us bring data to the table day in and day out 🎉

@amyrlewin Huge loss 😔 He will be missed greatly.

News I never wanted to be sharing 💔 Legendary tech journalist Steve O'Hear has died. Steve was a friend and mentor to many of us at Sifted, and we'll dearly miss him. sifted.eu/articles/steve…

The story of how it got much more difficult to get from seed-stage to Series A. Each line is a set of seed-stage companies. One line per quarter from 2018-H1 2022. Recent cohort quarters are lagging way behind the past 5 years in percentage getting to Series A at 1 year, 2 years, and 3 years. Questions remaining: will those cohorts ever catch up? Have they just been bridging into a better future? Or are they going to be effectively lost over time as new cohorts overtake them in investor attention? Certainly some of these companies responded to the macro change by becoming profitable or otherwise funding themselves out of revenue. But I just don't think that option will prove possible for most who started down the venture path. Better fundraising times are coming soon-ish (my guess is the latter half of 2024 will prove more fruitful). But it may be too late for many 2021 and early 2022 vintage companies.

Patrick Collison on craft

Found myself coming back to this recording a few times since the livestream - thanks again @yoheinakajima for putting this together 👏. Highly recommend watching for anyone interested in autonomous agents.

my first livestream on @X - over 1200 joined! "Future of Autonomous Agents" recording is available here:

Just like any industry, Venture Capital is being disrupted by tech. VCs at the forefront of this trend share insights into their work over the coming days. Join me tonight as we share a sneak peek into what we are doing at @Atomico. summit.datadrivenvc.io

1/This weekend a few hundred early Skypers gathered in Tallinn to celebrate 20 years from the first beta release of Skype, on August 23rd, 2003. #skype20 Here's a thread on how this company left a dent.

The *brand new* State of European Tech: First Look is here! Check out stateofeuropeantech.com for a snapshot on 2023 so far, incl: 📊 VC capital invested year to date 🌍 Country breakdown 🌱 Early stage resilience 🤖 Founder and thematic trends #SOET #superventure

11: In the short-term, changes in valuation drive returns. In the long-term, changes in sales & profits drive returns.