TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

But today, a startup that is exploring a different route for those interested in technology and knowledge worker positions — specifically by way of apprenticeships to bring in and train younger people on the job — is announcing a significant round of growth funding to see if it can provide a credible, scalable alternative to that model.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Ageras today follows a fairly typical labor marketplace model: SMEs seeking accountancy services submit their requirements in three areas — accounting, bookkeeping or auditing — and in return they receive three leads to contact. And the evolution of that to expand to more knowledge worker jobs is not especially new, either.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

Founded in 2014 in Lagos, Andela’s original business model was based on building physical hubs to source, vet, train and house talent across the continent. However, Andela struggled with scaling and operating that business model, and in 2019 it laid off 400 developers. It did this in Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda and Uganda.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Business Canvas, founded in 2020 by CEO Woojin Kim, Brian Shin, Seungmin Lee, Dongjoon Shin and Clint Yoo, is hoping to solve the challenge that every knowledge worker and writer faces: spending more time on research and file organization than the actual content output they need to create. “In

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

“We’re building a general system that helps people get things done in front of their computer: a universal AI collaborator for every knowledge worker … We’re training a neural network to use every software tool in the world, building on the vast amount of existing capabilities that people have already created,” Luan said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

For starters, services like these are, perhaps, one of the first real anchors of a viable business model around the world of IoT — a long-anticipated market that has failed to come good on returns up to now. In terms of the wider industrial market, the funding and Augury’s growth are coming at a key moment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The vast majority of startups remain focused on consumers, knowledge workers and the opportunities to provide services to those that are already operating completely, or at least partially, in digital environments. “We now know more about small-scale farmers than anyone else, because they talk to us.”

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

we wanted to build a model that addresses the limitations of email.”. Email has been around for decades. Slack Connect. Slack Connect is enabling businesses to use Slack in new ways that go beyond just traditional human-to-human communications. Microsoft Teams is Slack’s biggest competitor. “In

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

For the longest time, a lot of the most interesting innovations have been focused on so-called “knowledge workers” — those who typically get salaries, use computers and desks, and might well be paid much higher overall. Hourly workers, however, have come into focus more recently for a number of reasons.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

As knowledge workers including software engineers shifted to remote work during the pandemic, executives expressed a concern that productivity would suffer as a result. The evidence is mixed on this, but in the software industry particularly, remote work exacerbated many of the challenges that employees already faced.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 8, 2024

Kahn explains that AI depends on three components : Algorithms Computing Power Data What AI does : AI processes massive amounts of data, looking for patterns to model decision-making. For example, Kahn foresees that AI will restructure the workforce, making AI “copilots” necessary for every knowledge worker.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Varma said Loopin’s target customer are founders, senior executives and managers in cross-functional roles who spend a lot of time in meetings, plus knowledge workers in general. Its early beta users will be free for the next six months, then Loopin will operate on a freemium model starting in the second quarter of 2023.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Remote , which provides tools to manage onboarding, payroll, benefits and other services for tech and other knowledge workers located in remote countries — be they contractors or full-time employees — has raised $150 million.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Teams have realized that they can work just as efficiently using a distributed model, and a strict return-to-office plan often leads to losing top contributors even in a recession,” Mattson said. As a result, budgets are lost, and employees are stretched thin, which is why companies outsource these tasks in the first place.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

But even when all the other productivity boxes have been checked, Teamraderie speaks to another challenge that exists in the workplace, specifically the knowledge worker workplace, that of improving our relationships with each other as a route to working better together.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

Despite the fact that many knowledge workers could efficiently and effectively do their work from home, most organizations default to a management and evaluation style designed for factory workers. The future of work requires this shift in managerial mindset.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2007

Stephen Downes points to a post by Tony Karrer with disagreeing with some points in about the value of blogging in Thomas Davenport's book Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers. Tony points out this paragraph: I believe that blogging falls into the unproven category.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

Measuring objectives and key results are core to every enterprise, perhaps more so these days since knowledge workers began working remotely in greater numbers last year. ” Flexible VC: A new model for startups targeting profitability. Flexible VC: A new model for startups targeting profitability.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Our fund targets two primary themes: B2B vertical SaaS and SaaS-enabled businesses/marketplaces, and broadly what we call knowledge worker tools — DevOps, cybersecurity and other typically product-led horizontal applications. We have also invested in marketplace business models in products disrupting travel, pets, solutions for SMBs.

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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

You did a massive pivot away from the Netflix, YouTube, original content model that has been successful. Much more like a Slack or a Dropbox model, but for video. Fundamentally, YouTube is still focused on entertainment, and their business model is advertising. And so that’s a very different model. How’d you become CEO?

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Towards Data Science

OCTOBER 7, 2023

And tech giants like OpenAI, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have been flooding the market with features driven by large language models (LLMs) and image-generating diffusion models. They promise to help companies analyze data at scale, summarize and synthesize information, generate content, and otherwise transform their businesses.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

We want to democratize this process with a truly horizontal product that every knowledge worker can use, and we’re excited to have Accel join us on the next phase of our journey.”. ” With the right tools, predicting startup revenue is possible.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

OpenEye recently published a new AI model they call U2. Let models think until they arrive at an answer. Models are learning to train themselves. While U2 could do a bit of data munging and run small experiments, this new model the model researchers are calling U3 is changing the daily lives of the technical staff.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 7, 2025

Other reportedly planned agents include a "high-income knowledge worker" assistant at $2,000 monthly and a software developer agent at $10,000 monthly. The term refers to models that supposedly perform tasks requiring doctoral-level expertise. So what exactly constitutes "PhD-level AI"?

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Ars Technica

MARCH 21, 2025

OpenAI is quietly seeding expectations for a "PhD-level" AI agent that could operate autonomously at the level of a "high-income knowledge worker" in the near future. Elon Musk says that "we'll have AI smarter than any one human probably" by the end of 2025. Anthropic made headlines by trumpeting how Claude 3.7

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Singularity Hub

MARCH 8, 2025

Nearly 12 years later, that fictional premise has veered closer to reality with the release of a new conversational voice model from AI startup Sesame that has left many users both fascinated and unnerved.” ‘In the Bay Area, the Salesforce Tower defines the city skyline, right? .”

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 20, 2025

Rather than displacing highly skilled professionals, AI is setting the stage for knowledge workers to transition from individual contributors into high-leverage managers, directing teams of AI agents that can execute tasks with breathtaking efficiency. Its about knowing enough to question it. AI is powerful, but its not perfect.

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Singularity Hub

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

.” ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DeepSeek Goes Beyond ‘Open Weights’ AI With Plans for Source Code Release Kyle Orland | Ars Technica “Last month, DeepSeekturned the AI world on its headwith thereleaseof a new, competitive simulated reasoning model that was free to download and useunder an MIT license.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 18, 2025

Kahn explains that AI depends on three components : Algorithms Computing Power Data What AI does : AI processes massive amounts of data, looking for patterns to model decision-making. For example, Kahn foresees that AI will restructure the workforce, making AI copilots necessary for every knowledge worker.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 25, 2024

So, leadership must model the values and behaviors they’d like to see throughout the organization, setting a standard that promotes a positive and productive culture. “If This model views the board and executive leadership as equal partners working collaboratively towards shared goals.

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Recode by Vox

APRIL 3, 2025

It feels impossible for some people parents, knowledge workers, Spotify fanatics to live without a smartphone. Instead of the gritty e-ink screen, the new model has a black and white OLED display with a coating that makes it less shiny. For others, its simply inconvenient. The market is starting to meet those needs.

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