2024-04-25
Nooks, a team I backed during Covid, has pivoted their way to some INSANE customer love. It's exciting to see customers talking about the direct productivity gains they've seen (5x'd pipeline!). They're announcing their $22M Series A - let me know if you are interested in working... [video]
VentureBeat
Nooks, whose AI tools can analyze sales calls and summarize customer interactions, raised a $22M Series A led by Lachy Groom, bringing its total funding to $27M
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2024-03-13
This is one of the best teams I know. It's telling that I know former students who have worked there for 4 years when their only office is in Mountain View and is 5 days a week in person... Greatness is a magnet
TechCrunch
Self-driving startup Applied Intuition raised a $250M Series E led by Lux, Elad Gil, and Porsche at a $6B valuation and works with “18 of the top 20 automakers”
2021-05-25
They've been working and learning for 3 years. Awesome to see this go live - check it out people. I'm too old to understand it and I've been told if I use it I'll make it uncool... https://twitter.com/...
Josh Constine's PressClub
Poparazzi, which hit #1 on App Store, is a new photo-sharing app that bans selfies, focuses on sharing photos of friends, and has no follower counts or comments
The future of social is multiplayer — Hyping up your friends is actually a lot more fun than self-glorification.
2020-02-27
👀 now this is partnership dynamics: Mr. Benedetti sent a team to Tokyo to set up the so-called honey trap, in which one or more women would lure Mr. Arora to a hotel room rigged with cameras in an attempt to obtain compromising images https://www.wsj.com/...
Business Insider
Report: Rajeev Misra, head of the $100B Vision Fund, is accused of sabotaging other SoftBank execs for career advancement; Misra and SoftBank deny allegations
- Rajeev Misra, the head of SoftBank's $100 billion Vision Fund, is accused of overseeing a plan to lure SoftBank's then-president into a … Source: Wall Street Journal .