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This Week in Startups

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ANGEL, the Book

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Uber

Angel Investor

Inside.com

Inside.com provides business intelligence in the form of events, newsletters, and an online SLACK community.

CEO & Founder

LAUNCH

Founder & CEO

Sequoia Capital

Entrepreneur in Action

Weblogs, Inc.

CEO and Co-founder of The Weblogs, Inc. Network with Brian Alvey. More information at http://www.weblogsinc.com.

We publish www.engadget.com, www.tvsquad.com, www.cinematical.com, www.joystiq.com, www.autoblog.com, and 70 other leading blogs. 

Acquired by TimeWarner/AOL Oct. 2005.

CEO & Co-Founder

VentureReporter.net

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launch.co
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Jason Calacanis

Hear my WARNING for ANY APP using OpenAI’s API…

On an urgent new This Week in Startups clip, I'm warning founders that Sam Altman is ALWAYS WATCHING.

Sure, companies that use the most OpenAI tokens get thank you emails and handsome plaques. But I suggest there’s a masterful scheme happening behind the scenes…

In fact, Altman & Co are WATCHING which apps are getting the most use of OpenAI… so they can design their own versions of those products! Thus drinking the founders’ milkshake.

It’s a pattern we’ve previously seen play out with giants like $MSFT and $META, creating playgrounds for other startups, which they then mine for data, ideas and inspiration. Don’t get caught in the same pattern, founders!

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Smart founders are always looking ahead. Here’s why you need to “skate to where the puck is going.”

Zachary Handshoe of SpatialGen joined This Week in Startups to talk about building the “spatial cloud” that will one day power streaming video for immersive AR and VR devices (like Apple’s Vision Pro X).
While today, the company has a “champagne customer base” — the kinds of early adopters and wealthy elites who can afford Cupertino’s costly headsets — it won’t be long before many more people are eager to experience the thrill of live 16K immersive video.

That’s why I was eager to invest in SpatialGen, and praise Zachary Handshoe for building today what his customers are going to love tomorrow.

Immersive 16K spatial video is here… but where’s the killer app?
On this TWiST highlight, Zachary Handshoe of SpatialGen, and I consider high-end VR and AR headsets like Apple’s Vision Pro, and what it’s going to take to convince mainstream consumers to invest in this cutting-edge new technology.

In the past, VR headsets have faced what Zach and I call the “Try, Oh My, Goodbye” syndrome; people are CURIOUS about the possibilities of immersive video, but ultimately don’t stick around and become everyday users.

Will spatial video shot at live sporting events be what it takes to get the normies on board? And what kind of cloud infrastructure will be required to power this future, when millions are accessing the massive files required to stream in 16K? 

Watch this clip and find out!

Jonathan Brill

Center for Radical Change

HBR called Brill, "The world's foremost transformation architect." He works with leaders and boards of startups, governments and the Fortune 50 to spot, create and take advantage of radical change.

EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN, Head of Strategic Innovation and Decision Science

100+ KEYNOTES, 20+ COUNTRIES. Let's change some lives at your event.

KEYNOTE — STRATEGIC LUCK
1 MILLION+ VIEWS, on HBR China. Luck is a science-based skill. It isn't fate and you rarely make your own. In less than an hour, your audience will discover how to have more joy, success with greater ease and less effort — No matter how lucky they are.

KEYNOTE — RADICAL CHANGE IS RADICAL OPPORTUNITY — if you’re prepared. In this talk, you'll master the emotional and business resilience to INNOVATE YOUR BEST FUTURE!

KEYNOTE — WHAT YOUR CHILDREN NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TOMORROW
The ten changes that will shape your children's future and the skills they need to thrive in them. This positive and personal talk is based on a $15 million dollar study Brill led for HP and a popular article he wrote with career expert Dorie Clark.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Author, ROGUE WAVES: FUTURE-PROOF YOUR BUSINESS to SURVIVE and PROFIT from RADICAL CHANGE (McGraw-Hill, Citic). #2 Economics book in China. Barron’s Book List, Spring 2022.

AUTHOR and JOURNALIST

Singularity University

Provide thought leadership and coaching on the impact of automation on organizational design and business models at senior executive retreat and global conferences.

Adjunct Faculty

Territory Studio

We invent future worlds for Hollywood films, like: Ghost in the Machine, Ready Player One, Blade Runner 2049 and Ex Machina. We also design visionary products and experiences for real world companies, like Cadillac, Intel and Microsoft using rigorous social, economic and technology research.

Futurist In Residence

Frost & Sullivan

Advise one of the world’s largest growth strategy firms on business model innovation and digital transformation.

Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, works in collaboration with clients to leverage visionary innovation that addresses the global challenges and related growth opportunities that will make or break today's market participants. For more than 50 years, they have been developing growth strategies for the global 1000, emerging businesses, the public sector and the investment community.

Frost & Sullivan supports clients throughout all phases of their journey to visionary innovation including: research, analysis, strategy, vision, innovation and implementation. This includes our 360 degree research, comprehensive industry coverage, career best practices as well as our global footprint of more than 40 offices.

Board Advisor and Fellow

Keynote Speaker

The Lavin Agency

Professional Speaker

Direct research that defines HP's longterm investment strategy. Topics cross socio-economics, demographics, technology and geopolitics.

Advise global leadership on development of new growth opportunities and functional strategy: vision, choice points and road mapping for products, go-to-market, locations, workforce and operations.

Lead HP Pioneers, the global executive team that coordinates long term planning and vision across the company.

Develop HP Megatrends annual report.

Present thought leadership content to C-Level internal and external clients.

Deliver keynotes at global conferences and educational institutions, like Singularity, Mobile World Congress, TED Women, Harvard and MIT.

Speaking subjects including: Megatrends, AI and Machine Learning, Blockchain, IoT, 3D Print, Next Gen Devices, Future of GTM, Future of Work, Smart Cities and Biotech in Manufacturing.

Global Futurist and Research Director, HP TechVision and Megatrends

Special Projects Agency

Special Projects Agency helps clients understand, articulate and prototype the future.

www.specialprojectsagency.com

I lead B2B, B2C and B2G clients through the identification, planning and prototyping of physical, digital and architectural experiences.

Deliverables typically include a combination of scenario planning, product planning and experience prototyping. In many cases we assemble and manage special projects teams to bring the key insights to market.

The outputs of this work have included 28,000 SF of exhibits at the most recent World's Fair. Smart kitchen appliances. Corporate venture strategy. Hardware and Software prototypes.

Clients Include:
- United States Government
- Samsung
- Verizon
- T-Mobile
- Simplygon

Cofounder

CCD Innovation

Partner in food innovation consultancy that has developed over $27 Billion of new products.

Doubled sales in 6 months when acting as interim CEO.

Chief Executive Officer/Partner

Frog Design

My areas of focus are: Interactive places. Smart objects. Networked life. Gestural interfaces.

At frog, I am lucky to work with some of the most passionate artists, engineers, strategists and qualitative researchers on the planet.

We help clients find and execute new opportunities that blend interactivity, industrial design and built environments.

Every day, I wake up excited to explore the new businesses and human experiences that are possible as our digital lives merge with the physical world.

Creative Director

#1 Ranked Futurist in the World by Forbes and "The world’s leading transformation architect," according to Harvard Business Review, Jonathan Brill helps audiences and executives spot, drive, and invent What Happens Next.™ Jonathan not only details a provocative case for why the world is changing but also what you can do about it, and how to take meaningful action.

An Inventor, best-selling author, and renowned keynote speaker, Jonathan draws upon his unique experiences as Global Futurist at HP, Board Advisor for Frost & Sullivan, Senior Fellow at the HBR China New Growth Institute, and Invention Consultant for numerous Fortune 50 companies and the US Government, to help global leaders future-proof their businesses.

AI Advisor and enthusiast, Jonathan has made numerous contributions to the field including collaborating on Microsoft's early touch computing interfaces and machine learning, advising Samsung on AI investment priorities, and his work with Frost & Sullivan on the use of AI and other technologies to enhance data analysis and decision-making processes.

His book, "Rogue Waves," offers a provocative perspective on how the collision of technology innovation, geopolitical, economic and societal trends will dramatically transform countries, cultures, and industries, and has become standard reading in the risk management field.

Jonathan shares his insights on global stages, in board rooms, with media brands like ABC, CNBC, Forbes, SXSW, and TED, at institutions like Harvard and Stanford, and with numerous companies including SAP, KPMG, Amgen, JP Morgan, and Microsoft.

We're hearing a lot about AI-driven workforce reductions lately. Accenture says embrace AI or face cuts. 

Amazon's Andy Jassy points to AI making roles redundant.
 
But here's what concerns me: automating individual tasks is very different from replacing entire job functions. Companies rushing to reduce headcount might find themselves outsourcing more than they planned, without the dramatic cost savings they expected.
 
The real opportunity isn't in asking "How do I save money?"
 
It's in asking: "How do I make money? How do I create value? How do I unlock entirely new possibilities for my customers?"
 
That's the question that grows businesses and creates jobs—not eliminates them.
 
What's your take? Are we focused on the wrong AI transformation question?

Business Futurist | AI Keynote Speaker | Executive Chairman @ Center for Radical Change

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