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David O. Sacks reposted thisDavid O. Sacks reposted thisDavid O. Sacks' new company Glue wants to solve Slack channel fatigue. Instead of forcing workers to join permanent channels to access information, Glue uses threads to collect groups of people around what they are working on at that moment. The result? Less noise, Sacks and his co-founder Evan Owen argue.
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David O. Sacks reposted thisDavid O. Sacks reposted thisToday we announced Glue. I've spent much of my career thinking about how to improve work communication, and in the last year my convictions have only been reinforced with the takeoff of LLM-based AI. In a nutshell, AI is most effective with focused context, and we believe humans are too. Glue takes the best of AI chat tools like ChatGPT + work chat apps like Slack, while avoiding the noise and limitations of channels. The result is a new way for teams and AI to collaborate together in a single focused, productive space. I'm incredibly proud of what the Glue team, including my co-founder David O. Sacks and I, are building. We think you'll love it too. Read more and request access here:
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David O. Sacks shared thisDavid O. Sacks shared thisGotta give some love. I’ve heard mostly neutral or negative feedback about VC firms from revenue leaders. Craft Ventures is different. I’ve had great support overcoming operational challenges, leveraging network for introductions, and insightful feedback on the business and strategy. Shoutout David O. Sacks, Mike Marg, Ethan Ruby, Brian Murray, and Sarah for all of your support. The portfolio is also exciting and we get to call many of them customers shoutout Sendoso, ClickUp, Atrium - Data Driven Sales Management, Snackpass, and the rest of the family. #saassales #saas
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David O. Sacks shared thisThank you, very kind. 🙏David O. Sacks shared thisOne of the greatest operators of all time, David O. Sacks, with tons of free pearls for both start-ups and corporate innovators. - Product feeds Marketing > Rally toward release events. Fill your jar with rocks first (products), then pebbles (features), and then sand (fixes). > Write the press release for the feature you want to build. - Sales feeds Finance > Unit Economics > Plan milestones, make them predictable and inspectable. > Think ladders -- neither a marathon nor a sprint. Blog: https://lnkd.in/gueiCPk Slides: https://lnkd.in/gjNaSSN Thoughtful discussion (with Jason Calacanis): https://lnkd.in/g-ETXQ4
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David O. Sacks liked thisDavid O. Sacks liked this𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲: 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗥𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁 After nearly 7 incredible years as a General Partner at Craft Ventures, I’ve decided to transition into a new chapter as a Venture Partner. In this role, I’ll continue to support and serve on boards, work closely with the founders I’ve backed, and bring deal flow into the firm. As the firm evolves and moves away from seed stage investing and marketplace businesses, this felt like a natural moment for me to shift gears. I’ve always been most energized by companies at the earliest stages as well as marketplace business models, something that predates Craft and continues to drive me today. I’m proud of how Craft has evolved and have deep conviction in the leadership team to guide the firm through this next phase. To the founders I’ve backed: your grit, vision, and perseverance have been so inspiring. I feel lucky to be on the journey with you and I’m not going anywhere. Some of the amazing founders I've had the privilege to work with include: Eduardo Vilar (Returnly) Evan W. & Mike Moreno (Route) Steven Simoni & Luke Allen (Bbot, Allen Control Systems) Sumir Meghani (Instawork) Ryan Eisenman, Joel Stein & Jason Trigg (Arch) Sean Thorne & Henry Nevue (PeopleDataLabs) Brian O'Kelley (Scope3) Jeremy Lappin & Shani Vaza-Wahrmann (Candex) Andrew Bocskocsky & Nevin Raj (Grata) Etai Mizrahi & Andrew McEwen (Secoda) Jon Yoo & Chengjun Yuan (Suger) Mac Liu (Vultron) João (Joe) Moura & Rob Bailey (CrewAI) Brian McMahon & Julia O'Mara (Pickle) Sahitya S. (Endeavor.ai) Chen Li & Kang Zhang (Palmstreet) …and many more 🙏 It’s also been a privilege to help build Craft from the early days. Thank you to my partners: David O. Sacks, Bill Lee, Mark Woolway, Brian Murray, Michael Robinson, Jessica Hoffman, Bryan Rosenblatt, Lainy Painter Singh, Mike Marg, Michael Tam, Sky Dayton, Ethan Ruby, Hillary Smith, and the rest of the Craft team. You’ve made this an unforgettable ride. Your integrity, professionalism, founder-orientation and energy are contagious. My involvement with Craft has been and continues to be a highlight in my career. So what’s next? First and foremost, I’m planning to spend more time with my family. My oldest heads to UC Berkeley in August, and I’m savoring every moment before all three kids are out of the house. I also am excited to get back to building. Thanks to AI, I’ve started coding again for the first time in years; it’s been incredibly energizing and fun to tinker with new ideas. If you want to jam on something new or just catch up, drop me a line. I’m still on all the same digital leashes. Thanks again to everyone who’s been part of this journey. Excited for what’s ahead. Cheers!
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David O. Sacks liked thisDavid O. Sacks liked thisAs more companies continue to integrate AI, one of the biggest challenges for developers is to ensure that AI-generated content is accurate. This is where Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) comes in. By combining LLMs with real-time data retrieval, RAG helps make AI apps more reliable, context-aware, and accurate—all while reducing hallucinations 🚀 In our latest blog, we explore: * What is RAG, and why it’s a crucial ingredient for AI development * How RAG can improve response accuracy and reduce hallucinations * The benefits of using Ragie, our fully managed RAG-as-a-Service platform, to simplify the process If you're building AI apps and want to ensure they deliver smarter, more accurate content, check out the blog: https://lnkd.in/gDWJuaqY
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David O. Sacks liked thisDavid O. Sacks liked thisDavid O. Sacks' new company Glue wants to solve Slack channel fatigue. Instead of forcing workers to join permanent channels to access information, Glue uses threads to collect groups of people around what they are working on at that moment. The result? Less noise, Sacks and his co-founder Evan Owen argue.
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David O. Sacks liked thisDavid O. Sacks liked thisToday we announced Glue. I've spent much of my career thinking about how to improve work communication, and in the last year my convictions have only been reinforced with the takeoff of LLM-based AI. In a nutshell, AI is most effective with focused context, and we believe humans are too. Glue takes the best of AI chat tools like ChatGPT + work chat apps like Slack, while avoiding the noise and limitations of channels. The result is a new way for teams and AI to collaborate together in a single focused, productive space. I'm incredibly proud of what the Glue team, including my co-founder David O. Sacks and I, are building. We think you'll love it too. Read more and request access here:
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David O. Sacks liked thisDavid O. Sacks liked this🚀 It’s HERE! Introducing Spekit’s next-gen CMS and sales content experience designed by reps, for reps ✨ Over the last 12 months, we’ve interviewed hundreds of reps and watched as they’ve painfully navigated their workflows: You receive an email from a prospect requesting more info. You start sifting through folders in Google Drive before realizing what you need is in Confluence, where you can’t find it, so you turn to Slack. Your coworker points you to your CMS where the doc isn’t pulling up based on any of your search terms. Finally, you use the old resource you saved on your desktop months ago and before you know it, the day is over. Instead of selling, you’ve spent most of your time, switching from one tab to the next, endlessly searching for information. 🤯... no wonder reps can't find time to prospect. Then, we did it all over again with sales enablement leaders and marketers. The pain points around their legacy CMS platforms were clear: 1. Slow time to value: Heavy admin with complex integrations, content organization, and design work that's impossible to manage for lean teams. 2. Low adoption: Reps hate digging for content especially when met with poor search and slow load times. 3. Too expensive: Tons of bells and whistles. In our research, an estimated 70%+ of CMS capabilities were never adopted. On the flip side, their "dream experience" was quite simple: ✅ Reps just wanted sales content to be easy to find and share ✅ Enablement & marketing wanted content to be used and easy to manage Call it second mover advantage but we believe the future of enablement doesn’t involve “more” capabilities. Instead, the future of enablement is smarter, simpler, and designed for the rep ✨ We’re building a rep-first enablement experience where sales reps won’t have to think about where to go, what to search, or which resource will be the most valuable for this particular prospect. Enablement teams won’t have to spend their lives manually tagging, categorizing, and managing content. The right content will appear at the right time, instantly and effortlessly ✨ Today's launch is a first big step in this direction: 🪄 Sales content, one-click away: Centralize your sales and marketing collateral in Spekit and watch as it’s instantly accessible wherever sales reps are working - no integrations required. 📊 Content sharing & tracking with SmartSend: Send, share, and track content performance and engagement. Get real-time alerts as buyers engage with your content - without leaving your workflow. And soon, it’s going to get a whole lot smarter ✨🐙 Stay tuned 😉 In the meantime, be the first to view these new capabilities. Webinar is in the comments! PS. thank you to all of our design partners, the sales reps and admins, and our entire Spekit team for the time, research, time and sweat that went into bringing this vision to life. And, I cannot wait for what’s to come. #enablement #productlaunch #learning #marketing
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James Green
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Manny E. Reimi
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