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Alexa's Product Market Fit Problem, Good Companies are Bad Investments & New Conversation with Madrona Ventures

Alexa's leadership is trying to fix its strategy, good companies have become bad investments due to high valuation & my conversation with Madrona Ventures.

Nataraj Sindaman hour ago

Next Growth Lever for Netflix & SNAP Is Mismanaged!

What's next in Netflix growth strategy, Why I think SNAP is mismanaged & What's happening in Techstars Seattle

Nataraj Sindam21 days ago

Short Feedback Cycles, Twitter On-Prem Move & Search Funds

Feedback Cycles are Getting Shorter, Twitter Move to On-Prem & What are Search Funds?

Nataraj Sindama month ago

Core Weave's Pivot, Follow the money behind TikTok & Tech Trends

Core Weave's Pivot to AI, Who is stopping the ban of TikTok in U.S? Conversation about tech trends.

Nataraj Sindama month ago

Second Order Effects of Ozempic, Marvel Moment of Microsoft & New Networks

Second Order effects of Ozempic, Marvel moment for Microsoft & Are you meeting enough new people?

Nataraj Sindama month ago

Threat of Meta XR Devices is to Google not Apple

Altman’s Strategy To Dominate Tech & What Can You Take Away From It, Threat of Meta XR Devices Is to Google Not Apple & Did Alexa Devices Found a Saviour?

Nataraj Sindam2 months ago

Its high time for Amazon to fix its devices strategy, the window is closing.

Amazon Devices Strategy Failure, Secondary Valuations Make no Sense & Chicken in the U.S if overengineered to our detriment.

Nataraj Sindam2 months ago

What is the strategy behind $6.5B investment into 15 min delivery startups?

Is there a strategy behind 15 min grocery delivery startups?

Nataraj Sindam2 months ago

Meta's AI Strategy, Databricks new round & What to consume?

what is Meta’s AI strategy? Does the new $500M round investment into Databricks make sense?

Nataraj Sindam2 months ago

Should you invest in Softbank’s ARM IPO?

Softbank's ARM IPO, Toyota plants shutdown for a weird reason & a conversation about Indian venture capital.

Nataraj Sindam3 months ago

Elon's best feature till now on the new twitter

Elon's best twitter feature till now, winner of Hollywood strike & missing Docker investment.

Nataraj Sindam3 months ago

Is it worth investing in YC companies at $25 post money?

YC valuations, Disney troubles & original thinker.

3 months ago

Trillion Dollar Opportunity: Un-Fuck the U.S Food Ecosystem

Next trillion dollar opportunity, wework's bankruptcy & conversation with founder of crowd cow.

3 months ago

Growth of YouTube Shorts & Sam Altman's SPAC

Why YouTube Shorts is crushing it, Sam Altman's SPAC & upcoming conversations.

4 months ago

Threads vs Twitter (Sorry... X)

Threads vs Twitter, Indian companies in YC & why Lyft is still an individual company?

4 months ago

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Why Amazon Go is a Failure?

Amazon go failed, late night tv is dead but Barbenheimer is trending.

4 months ago

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Why Databricks Acquired Mosaic ML?

Acquisitions in AI, new conversation with Aseem Datar & thoughts on career growth

4 months ago

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AI SECOND ORDER EFFECT: New Websites?

Will it be worth it to create new websites?

6 months ago

Value Capture in AI

Who will capture value in AI

8 months ago

New conversation with Jacob Colker of Allen Institute of AI Incubator

All things AI

8 months ago

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Venture Capital Was About Too Much Money Chasing Too Few Deals in 2019-22

All you need to do is look at the past.

9 months ago

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All of Sudden Google Looks Mismanaged for Last 10 Years

I still think Google is the leader in AI

9 months ago

Get Ahead of the Game: A Checklist for Investing With AngelList Syndicate

10 things to understand before investing alongside an AngelList Syndicate.

10 months ago

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Sathya Takes Narrative Control of AI Cloud

Open AI collaboration with Microsoft is setting the narrative that Azure is the AI Cloud & Google should be pissed.

10 months ago

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