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AI’s hype isn’t going to be simply star-studded 

TechCrunch

I’m glad we all still resonate with a comeback story. While Kutcher’s firm has been around for a long time and has lived through enough hype cycles to not be easily swayed one way or another, the filing made me curious. Are we going to see more celebrity-led venture firms jump onto the AI bandwagon? It’s complicated.”

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Don’t use Sam Altman and AI hype in the same sentence

TechCrunch

Today, we’re celebrating Equity’s 6th birthday! TechCrunch also has a great show on crypto , a show that interviews founders , one that details how our stories come together and more! Don’t use Sam Altman and AI hype in the same sentence by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

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Meet 15 companies that are turning ads and marketing into cultural moments

Fast Company Tech

Im excited to keep working together to help tell great sports stories. The agency in 2024 continued to flip the script on how McDonalds shows up in culture by actually celebrating something that it didnt create. A near perfect execution of a brand celebrating and collaborating over co-opting pop culture.

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Fading Light: the story of Magic Leap’s lost mixed reality magnum opus

The Verge

It’s called The Last Light : an interactive story about a young woman dealing with the death of her grandmother, designed to show the storytelling potential of mixed reality. Story was always this golden chalice we could never quite grab.”. Story was always this golden chalice we could never quite grab,” says lead producer Bryan Jury.

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The impact of hype with Clubhouse’s Paul Davison

TechCrunch

She sat down with Clubhouse co-founder and CEO Paul Davison to talk about the core of Clubhouse, competition and the impact of hype. The conversation touches on the company’s hyper growth, celebrity power and navigating social platforms and social patterns, with a round of questions from the audience at the end.

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The oh-so-biased branding risk in venture capital

TechCrunch

Everyone has a story, but they all sound a bit similar: A female VC is launching a fund, and she’s either compared to every other female VC with a fund, expected to only invest in female founders or have a diversity, equity and inclusion angle as a core thesis. It’s not surprising: Hyped-up technologies often get outsized interest.

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Good morning! We regret to inform you that the wealthy are at it again

TechCrunch

Get super stoked, because we are hype. Parler is not very popular at the moment and has stiff competition from other various celebrity-owned (or soon-to-be celebrity-owned) social networks Truth Social and Twitter. And it makes us here on the show look good! Hell yeah, this is our Monday show. Good morning!