The creator economy is growing rapidly, and ad revenue alone is no longer cutting it. YouTubers launch product lines, acquire startups, and build real business empires. In fact, MrBeast’s company bought fintech startup Step, and his chocolate business is earning his media arm. This is not just a strategy of one creator. For many, this … Read more
Enterprise AI is rapidly moving from chatbots that answer questions to systems that actually do work across the organization. But who will own the AI layer that powers it all? Glean, which started as an enterprise search product, has evolved into what it calls an “AI workplace assistant,” which aims to sit beneath other AI … Read more
Andreessen Horowitz just raised a tremendous $15 billion in new funding And part of $1.7 billion of that goes to himinfrastructure team, which is responsible for some of its largest and most significant AI investments, including Black Forrest Labs, Cursor, OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Ideogram, Fal and dozens more. A16z infra team general partner Jennifer Li (who … Read more