StartupDigest Reading List: EO on AI Safety, Narrowing your ICP, Secondary Markets

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Race Capital will be hosting an event on the future of voice-based AI on October 18th with the former CEO of Nuance (acquired by Microsoft for $19B) and founder of Otter.ai. More info and RSVP link here.

I’ll also be speaking at Vectara’s launch event on October 16th along with Matei Zaharia, the founder and CTO of Databricks. More info and RSVP link here.

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Written by Chris McCann, General Partner @ Race Capital. More about me.

📖 Interesting Reads

Here are the main takeaways from the Biden executive order on AI Safety which was released last week.
Microsoft announced it has over 1M paid GitHub Co-Pilot users, implying it’s a ~$150M year business already.
Many previously unicorn companies have been dying in 2023, and here is the story of why Convoy (once valued at $3.6B) shut down.
One of the biggest lessons learned from a founder/startup that didn’t make it, is to be as specific as possible with your ideal customer profile / who you are targeting. (Here’s a primer on developing your own ICP.)
Public and private valuations have been painfully but slowly converging with signs of the private market secondary bid/ask spreads closing.
A post on how venture capital investors think about selling and exiting their portfolio companies.

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