NYC hotels can charge $500/pp for the authenticity of a 24/7 self guided walking tour that assaults every sense. You take in more in one day walking lower Manhattan than a week in other places.

To evaluate rapidly changing tech, I like to have a "quick test" that's unlikely to be optimized.

For LLMs, I currently use: "please estimate the population below central park" (details in thread)

What's yours?

AI eats venture capital ?

I still see lots of big innovations including devtools, data mgmt, virtualization, APIs/langs, Internet/web/mobile, deeptech, etc. Plus hardware, healthcare, real estate, T&H, CPG...

VMware ($69B) launched in 1998 while the valley was chasing web 1.0. Also consumer GPS.