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What was I thinking? 30 years ago this week I started a “1-year experiment” to build a startup factory based loosely on Thomas Edison’s laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. It was early 1996 and the Internet was growing like crazy after the Netscape IPO, with a whopping 30 million global users (which seems hysterically tiny now). But I felt that this was a disruptive event that with the potential for many new businesses. I wanted to make a lab where I could take my favorite 12 ideas, try one a month for a year, and see if we could make a go of dreaming up, starting, and growing companies. After a year, 5 of those 12 had failed, 7 were able to get additional funding beyond the seed capital we provided, and eventually 5 of our earliest companies went public. We learned so many lessons living through the dot com boom and crash, the 2007 boom and 2008 crash, more recently the Cleantech boom and crash, and now the Ai boom. With a great deal of good timing, good luck and an amazing team of people I worked with over the years, we were able to start more than 150 companies in the last 30 years. I believe that entrepreneurship unlocks human potential and provides so much personal growth. I love helping other entrepreneurs be successful, and hope to give back as much as I can from the joys and challenges of the last 30 years of Idealab (here is a link to my top lessons learned: 25-lessons.idealab.com/introduction/). I am so grateful for the tens of thousands of people who came into our orbit to help make the dreams of each of our companies come true. Thank you so much, and Happy Birthday, Idealab! Sincerely, Bill

I'll be speaking next week at the Abundance Summit about how to get the most out of AI. I will share my presentation afterwards and hope it's helpful..

@Bill_Gross will be speaking at #HumanX in San Francisco April 6-9 to discuss all things AI. Register today for a significant discount: i.snoball.it/p/7kyxpk/l/5

I will be speaking at #HumanX #AI Conference @Prorata_ai @Idealab in April..

If you use AI mainly to polish drafts, you’re missing its real power. This short talk I just gave @DLDConference shows how to use AI as a thinking partner for hard problems — not just easy ones.. youtube.com/watch?v=v7ohMd…

Trust in AI starts with attribution.

The A.I. companies took our content in secret and used it to build businesses worth billions of dollars. Then they said it’s impossible to compensate us for the use of our work. @Bill_Gross recognized this as one of the great injustices of our time and decided to do something about it. He left his job, started @Prorata_ai, figured out how to reverse engineer the outputs of an LLM, and devised a system for sharing revenue. It could finally establish a fair exchange of value between A.I. companies and creators. Bill and I dove deep on payment and attribution in the age of A.I. Listen to our full chat here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the… Produced by @atlanticrethink, The Atlantic's creative marketing studio, in collaboration with @PwC.

#EnterpriseAI success isn’t about the model, it’s about the architecture. New blog by John @Patzakis & Chas Meier @X1Discovery : Why multi-tenant SaaS creates governance, performance & data-movement risks for legal & compliance. ➡️ And how AI-in-Place fixes it. bit.ly/44884po #LegalTech

Great insight from @Bill_Gross and @nxthompson.

Energy Vault is proud to be hosting our community event at the Snyder, Texas project site, bringing neighbors together to see the Cross Trails Resiliency Center (CTRC) and Solution Excellence Center (SEC) up close. From the onsite solar farm to the CTRC battery energy storage system and the SEC gravity energy storage systems, we're sharing how these projects strengthen local grid infrastructure, and enabling the community to learn more about the technologies behind them. Most importantly, we have the chance to thank Snyder and Scurry County for the support they've shown us over the years. We’re grateful to be part of this community and excited for what we’ll continue to build together #EnergyVault #EnergyStorageProjects #EnergyStorage

.@X1Discovery, the global leader in index-in-place data discovery, announces a breakthrough in enterprise AI—bringing AI directly to the data, securely and in-place, without the need to move or copy sensitive information. #AIinPlace #LegalTech #eDiscovery #Enterprise businesswire.com/news/home/2025…

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.@Prorata_ai founder Bill Gross tells the #FortuneGlobalForum that "the AI that uses content fairly will have better answers." trib.al/pMds2J8

Targeted, defensible & fast #M365 collections at #RelativityFest! Meet the @X1Discovery team in Chicago Oct 7-9 & see why our in-place micro-index in-place tech is a game-changer for #eDiscovery & compliance. Book a demo: x1.com/request-live-d… #legaltech #X1Enterprise

AI will remake the world — and it starts with search. Watch why that matters.. brand-studio.fortune.com/prorata/how-pr…

Bill Gross, founder of Idealab and @Prorata_ai, discusses pioneering a model for AI that reshapes online advertising. Watch here: bit.ly/48vgNVu

"I actually think we're living in a Napster moment, but not just for music, but for all of content, all of media, all of publishing," @Prorata_ai Founder and CEO @Bill_Gross said at #BrainstormTech. trib.al/7AUHkyp