substack financing round

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GenAI advantage. JPM vs. fintech.

April 1, 2023

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Is Substack’s community financing round a good deal? Analyzing its valuation and valuation multiple vs. competitors ConvertKit, beehiiv, and Medium

After raising from Andreessen Horowitz in March 2021 at a $650M valuation, Substack recently launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise $5M from its community. Is it a good deal?

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11 laws driving success in tech: Amazon’s 2-pizza rule, the 80/20 principle, & more
What separates success from failure? These 11 laws contain some of the most influential ideas that the biggest tech companies use to run their operations, design business models, and build products.

State of Digital Health 2022 Report
Global digital health investment activity contracted in 2022, with funding falling by 57% year-over-year and deals reaching a 5-year low.

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Analyzing SpaceX’s growth strategy: How the space leader is reshaping space exploration, telecom, national security, and beyond
We mined SpaceX's acquisitions, investments, and partnerships to discern the company's strategic priorities.

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As Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and the rest of big tech compete in generative AI, tying up content publishers will be critical for their LLMs. Here are 21 licensing targets they should lock up
Large language models (LLMs) trained on more text will generally be superior to an LLM with less. As a result, expect publishers with valuable text content to become a licensing battleground for LLM makers and for language acquisition costs (LAC) to become a real expense.

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The state of generative AI in 7 charts
We break down the generative AI landscape across funding trends, top-valued startups, most active VCs, and more.

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Analyzing JP Morgan’s growth strategy: How the banking giant plans to avoid disruption from fintechs
From blockchain to payments, we take a look at where JPM is acquiring, investing, and partnering to expand into new markets.

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