Nimble, fast moving startups that have always spearheaded the tectonic shifts in tech are at an inherent disadvantge.

For the innovation floodgates in consumer AI apps to open, this bottleneck needs to give way!

#AI #consumer #apps #LLMs #genAI

As @venturetwins notes, the models are good enough to have apps built on top

One problem though - AI by definition is a scaled opportunity, thereby making #bigtech incumbents the gatekeepers with the most leverage... their default operating mode is to defend the bastions, not expand the horizons!

"𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠" - people resetting their online behaviors and expectations in their quest for authenticity and simplicity

"𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬" - people hestitating in their online interactions in response to proliferation of fake stories, news, identities

Check it out jaunt.com/j/accenture-...

Quote - "𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦'𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 (𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦) 𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘥s 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯"

The report offers a very insightful take on how the internet & social media is shaping our society and popular culture. Other fascinating terms in the report:

𝐈𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐤, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚/𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞, should someone choose to double down on a specific question.

Think this applies not just for VC pitches, but startup pitch decks as well.

#venturecapital #VC #fundraising #capital #allocators #PEVC #VC101 #500startups

- Slide 7 (2nd pic) outlines the suggested flow for a VC pitch deck

- This looks a good way to visualize the flow of your deck. Break it into "𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐞" & "𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐱".. with clear linkages between the core slides and the corresponding appendix section...

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And I need all your blessings..... starting up again at this career stage (as I'm discovering!) is a different cup of tea 🍵

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Check out this blogpost... captures some of our thoughts around this topic! content.jaunt.com/blog/announc...

But for the founding team - we still are believers in the idea (think "fall in love with the problem, not the solution"). And the idea itself has morphed and grown in its scope - sharing of documents in a AI first, mobile centric world!

We built SlideShare and it was successful in capturing the zeitgeist of its times! But unfortunately it never kinda reached its true potential - #bigtech acquisitions don't always pan out the way the founders visualized the opportunity (that's another story to tell sometime!)

Why now?

Because AI has brought "text" as a format back in action! We are seeing AI rewrite the entire web landscape & textual content is the foundational block of this rewrite! So much of human expertise, ideas and knowledge is stashed away in pdfs, docs & slides lying around on computers, mobiles

On TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2024/12/12/t...

We're going back to a space that has been left behind - formats like videos, photos, podcasts are cranking down furiously on innovation but documents are stuck in the past! We think this fits our skills & interests, hence taking another stab at it