Weekly newsletter on technology, startups, and venture capital.

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

• Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI, then they tried to bring him back, then OpenAI hired a new CEO, and now Sam works at Microsoft. Quite the wild ride and great move for Microsoft although now startups have much more room to win market share against OpenAI.
• Here is one of the more balanced takes on the OpenAI drama and Sam Altman's background by Eric Newcomer who hosted the Cerebral Valley AI conference last week. 
• The State of AI report specifically looks at internal & external enterprise use cases, and pain points when building AI apps/features. 
• The State of Data Security Report. The rise of AI has also corresponded to Enterprises becoming much more serious and aware of data privacy & security risks. 
• Thoughts on technical sales development reps (SDRs) and why technical products need a different type of sales process vs traditional enterprise SaaS products. 
• Data on when startups hired their first product managers.
• A quantitative look on how often LLMs models hallucinate, created and published by Vectara (one of Race Capital’s portfolio companies).

• By Company: Databricks, GoodNotes, Zeet, Polysign, Opaque, Lightning Labs, OtterTune, and more
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• Browse more open roles across our portfolio at Race Capital's Portfolio Job Board.

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