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The difference between good and great founders

August 30, 2023
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, in which we sit down with a guest, talk about their work and unpack the rest. This week, Alex spoke to […]

Context.ai wants to merge product analytics sensibilities with LLMs

August 30, 2023
Since the release of ChatGPT at the end of last year, we’ve seen companies developing generative AI tooling to help customers interact with their products and services in a more natural way. Yet in many cases, these vendors have no idea how well the underlying large language models are performing, or how good the answers […]

X to allow paid political ads, lifting Twitter’s earlier ban

August 30, 2023
X this week confirmed it’s lifting its ban on paid political ads — a move it committed to earlier this year, shortly after Elon Musk took over the social network previously known as Twitter. The company had originally banned such ads back in 2019 under then-CEO Jack Dorsey’s management, claiming at the time that “political […]

Samsung launches a meal planning and recipe discovery platform called Samsung Food

August 30, 2023
Samsung has launched a meal planning and suggestion platform called Samsung Food in over 104 countries. The platform is based on Whisk, which the Samsung Next division acquired in 2019. The company said that the platform has more than 160,000 recipes in eight languages including English, Spanish, Korean, German, French, and Italian. Samsung noted that […]

3 Top Rated China Stocks Investors Are After This Week

August 30, 2023
Despite several obstacles, the Chinese economy has demonstrated remarkable resilience over the past several years. Given the consistent measures undertaken by the nation to keep its economy afloat this year,…

Accel-backed Agave lets construction software talk to one another

August 30, 2023
A lot of the most popular construction software was developed 20 to 40 years ago and many systems don’t talk to each other. As a result, the information stored in them is fragmented, adding extra work for building teams. Agave, a member of Y Combinator’s latest batch, is helping with a unified API that connects […]