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Scale Ventures Partners on the real risks of AI to workers, and the opportunity in vertical investments

Scale Ventures Partners’ Jeremy Kaufmann and Alex Niehenke joined us for a StrictlyVC discussion in San Francisco, and they had a more candid take on the impact of AI on the workforce than many within the tech community. Instead of obscuring the impacts to avoid the risk “people in the Midwest say nasty things about

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GV CEO David Krane on what it takes to manage 800 investments in five years at StrictlyVC SF

GV, Google’s venture capital spinoff that started in 2009, has invested billions of dollars in companies from Uber and Nothing to scent digitizing startup Osmo. Their CEO David Krane joined our December StrictlyVC event in San Francisco to discuss his approach to identifying potential investments, what it’s like to work so closely with Google while

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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber on the need for social to recapture the open web’s spirit at StrictlyVC SF

Bluesky’s rapid growth in the past few weeks has put a ton of eyeballs on the social platform, but as its CEO Jay Graber told us at the most recent StrictlyVC event, their goal is not just to recreate Twitter. Throughout her conversation with TechCrunch reporter Maxwell Zeff, Graber highlighted her belief that “people need

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