Weekly newsletter on technology, startups, and venture capital.

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

• A framework for getting your first design partners/customers for founders. 
• A great technical primer to better understand the inner workings of LLMs. 
• Thoughts on Salesloft’s acquisition of Drift and implications for SaaS.
• Update on the banking as a service (BaaS) model. TLDR - There has been an material increase in the scrutiny and regulatory costs of BaaS providers and apps that use them.
• Slides from Datadog's investor day. Datadog is sifting more into the software delivery markets in addition to their core products around monitoring and observability.
• OpenAI released their new text to video model with some impressive outputs. It’s not public yet but could have some big broad implications especially within the consumer/media industries.

• By Company: Databricks, GoodNotes, Zeet, Polysign, Opaque, Lightning Labs, OtterTune, and more
• By Role: Engineering, Data Science, Product, Design, Operations, Finance, Legal, and more
• By Location: SF Bay Area, New York, London, and Remote
• Browse more open roles across our portfolio at Race Capital's Portfolio Job Board.

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