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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued? With the enormous changes to our economies and financial markets?—?how Of course we can’t.

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What Is xAI? Elon Musk Reveals New Startup To Rival OpenAI

Tech.Co

The billionaire SpaceX chief certainly knows how to build an AI company, having co-founded ChatGPT owner OpenAI back in 2015, only to sell his stake three years due to a perceived conflict of interest with his electric vehicle company Tesla.

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Elon Musk Backs Billion Dollar Artificial Intelligence Effort

socalTECH

Elon Musk , the billionaire technology mogul behind SpaceX, has put some money behind--surprisingly--an effort to help developer artificial intelligence research. OpenAI says its goal is to advance digital intelligence in a way that "is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return."

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Southern California's Top 10 Most Popular Tech Stories Of The Year

socalTECH

end-of-the-year coverage, we've run through our web statistics and figured out which were the. venture capital exits in. SpaceX Plans Launch Site In Texas - In April, SpaceX announced plans to set up a launch. why (except widespread interest all year in the achievements of Hawthorne-based SpaceX, and.

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DFJ Co-Founder Jurvetson Exits Firm Amid Harassment Charges

Xconomy

One of Silicon Valley’s most prominent venture capital firm founders has joined the list of VCs who departed from their positions this year in the wake of sexual harassment allegations. He was named to board seats at Elon Musk’s companies Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA ) and SpaceX, as well as Craig Venter’s Synthetic Genomics. I am leaving DFJ.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.”