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Deep Learning Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning & Big Data

Pervazive Platform (Text, Voice& Data) :  Deep Learning, Predictive Analytics & Recommendation
Identified  Multiple Use Cases of   in specific Domain area's with Customer Engagement (Pilots & POC's)
1. Banking Sector - Enabling Branch Manager of a large private sector bank, Cheque Truncation and Bank Reconcilition
2. Insurance - Reducing Human error in Approvals of New Customer Onboarding (Survey Process)
3. Manufacturing - IOT
4. Automotive - Spare Parts 
5. Health care - Prediction of Diseases from Radio Images   
6. Telecom - Operational Cost Reduction, Churn Reduction and Up Sell Cross Sale.
7. Education - Voice 
8. BPO/ KPO Industry - Multiple Use Cases.

shashank.pradhan@pervazive.com

Global Strategy and Growth Advisory @Pervazive Inc

www.allieddigital.net
Partnership Program Infrastructure Services, Direct Sales - Cyber Security, Channel Partners for NOC , SOC and RIM.
New Strategic Initiatives Cyber Security, AI, AR VR, RPA

Sales  & Strategic Initiatives Cyber Security, IOT, AI, AR, VR, RPA, Data Science for Allied Digital

imtsglobal.co.uk
www.octosystems.com
Setting up IOT Practice - Partnership with PTC ThingWorx.
SAP B1 Partner

CEO @ Octopus Systems & Country Manager IMTS Global UK

www.startek.com
Growth Business & New Business - SAP & Microsoft Modern Technologies - Azure

VP Alliances and Business Development - IT Services @AEGIS Ltd.

Spinebiz

Global Digital Transformation and IT ITES Services Organisation

Growth Advisor to Board

Atos

Business Development - Systems Integration.New Business Acquisition and Fertilization Existing Accounts for Systems Integration practice in Financial Services, Public Sector, Healthcare, Education, Energy and Utilities.  I can be reached on shashank.pradhan@atos.net, +91 9920190165

Director Sales and Business Development SI

Business Planning, Sales Operations Alliance Management – EMC &OpenText:
Responsible for  order Entry & Revenue Targets for India. (€92M) split between India to India & India Direct for US, UK & Africa Markets.
 	Strategic Sales Engagements: 
-	Enable Sales team with CXO level engagement in identified Strategic Accounts. 
-	Leverage Nework to get meetings with Ex CIO of DOT, Obama Government Appointee.  Global CEO of GPX Global, GE GDC Outsorcing Director
-	Enable Sales Team with Portfolio for Cross Sell & Up Sell within Existing Strategic Customer Relationships.
 	Business Development & Lead Generation  – India to India & India Direct (US, UK & Africa Market),.
 	Mentoring Market Leaders & Account Sales Team for Identification & Planning of focus Accounts in each sub marketsof FS, MRS, TMT, PHT, EU &Siemens Account. Drill down from Market, Sub Market, Focus Accounts with Atos & Partner Portfolio and creation of Sales Plan for Order Entry & Revenue by Quarter.
 	Sales Strategy & Business Plan for Partner Portfolio: 
-	Capability & Solution co-creation with Subject Matter Experts, Practice Heads, Service Line heads for SAP, EMC, Oracle, OpenText, Microsoft,  CISCO, VMWare.
-	Identification & Planning for focus Portfolio’s  includingPartnet portfolio and arrive at Quarterly achievement of Budgets for Order and Revenue.
 	Strategic Account Planning : 
-	Carry out Account Business Planning & Account Opportunity workshops for Short Term and Long Term Action Plan to ensure 100% of forcasted revenue is planned.
-	Create strategic engagement plan for key stake holders.
 	Strategic Operations : 
-	Monitor and govern Sales Cascade Review process Account Sales – Market Leader, Market Leader – Country CEO. 
-	Enable Markets with Portfolio – Sales Assets, Porfolio Trainings, NCRM Training.
 	Strategic Change Management Program: 
-	Lead two work streams for change management program which will help improve Governance &Sales Efficiency.

Director : Multiple Roles : Sales Planning Operations, Alliance Management - EMC and OpenText

Director & Capability Cluster Manager for Nokia Solutions Network– Service Integration - P&L Owner – Global  Services Cluster

Director & Capability Cluster Manager Nokia , Global Services Cluster

Aircel Ltd.

Aircel Limited is the fastest Growing Telecom Company in India with 17 Million GSM Customers, Aircel Operates GSM Services in 15 of the 23 Telecom Circles in India.
Responsible for  Sales & Business Operations for West - Includes Mumbai, Rest of Maharashtra, Goa and Gujarat. P&L Management : Management of Cash to Cash Cycle.
Pre-sales, Sales, Partner & Alliance Management, Project Management, Service Delivery Management , Customer Service & Account Receivable 
Customers Acquired : 
Axis Asset Management, Axis Bank, HDFC Ltd, HDFC Bank, HDFC Securities, ICICI Bank, ILFS, SUN Pharma, Asian Paints, National Stock Exchange, Reliance Communications, Global telecom, ZEE TV, STAR TV, , Castrol, L&T, INOX, GFL,  Godrej, Gammon, Aditya Birla Group, Nilkamal, @home, Newswire 18, SUN 18 Media, Red FM,  Fame Adlabs, DNA.
Changed focus from SMB to Strategic Cusomers. Changed equation to 40 Strategic Customers contributing to 80% of revenue and near 100% collections. 
CIO Networking  : 
Developed connect with 400+ CIO’s in India and reach to 1000+ CIO’s across country.

Business Head - West

Patni Computer Systems Ltd

Business Development : New Customers in Existing Geographies, Existing Customers in New Geographies.
Solution Creation such as 
POC for NPI Cycle time reduction  : Business Process Monitoring (Oracle Fusion Framework) integration of PLM with OraApps.
POC for 360 Degree view of Customer (Mobility Solution).
Sales Assets, Case Studies & Presentations : ADM++, SCM, CRM, PLM, Mobility.
SPOC for Mobility COE
RFP, RFI Responces, Bid Management for Cusromer Acquisition – P&G, BOC Edwards (now Linde), Weyerhouser
 Billable Assignments : Domain Consulting & Business Analysis.
Motorola : Germany, Integrated Supply Chain – MGate 0 through MGate 10. Translate Business Requirement to IT Requirement. Manage complete cycle from  Business Case, Budget Approval through Business Benefit Realization.
Motorola : USA, Project Manager : Functional Specification Doument for Strategic Supplier Scorecard Integration (After Symbol takeover).
P&G Inc, Based at Cincinnati , USA, purchase process automation using BPM tool. Business consultant.
Toshiba Project Manager for PLM Benchmarking Report for, Based at India, (Won Dream Team Award of Patni).
Rockwell Automation South Korea Project Manager for, Business Requirement Functional Specifications for their eCommerce portal

Domain Consultant & Business Analyst -  Manufacturing Business Unit

Business Development : New Customers in Existing Geographies, Existing Customers in New Geographies. 
Formulated key account management strategies for major accounts like GE Transportation (Aircraft Engine), GE Energy, GE Consumer & Industries, GE Advance Materials.
Acquisition of SAP Implementation & Rollout in multiple countries for GE Toshiba Silicons -ASPAC Region.
RFP, RFI Responces, Bid Management for Cusromer Acquisition – GE Energy, GE Toshiba Silicons, GE Consumer & Industries, GE Transportation (Aircraft Engine), GE Advance Materials.
Business Delivery Owner & Project Manager for VF Corporation, GE Toshiba Silicons
Invited to improve the process : ‘365+ DSO’. Which had  a possible impact on the overall GE Relationship – Impact on US$100 MM revenue.
Greatly acknowledged for implementing process improvement project (Six Sigma Black belt Project) in billing started with Days outstanding entailing VOC to CTQ conversion, Targets & Service Levels definition, alternates evaluation (Pugh Matrix), SIPOC, FMEA to arrive at TO-BE Process, which is was successfully rolled out and was in use for next five years.

BD - GE BU, BDO & Project Management, Process Improvement

Managing multi location multi country engagement. 
The Contract was consolidation from three vendors, contractors & employees into Single Vendor. 
Contract included Build, Run & Program Management. 
Contract value of US$18 Million & acquiring additional US$1.5 Million revenue on special Project. 
This engagement incolved implementation of Single Vendor Contract with 450 Onsite Resources and 1000 Offshore Resouces.

Client Partner - GE Finance

Global engagement - Transition from Wipro to Patni. Responsible for revenue increase from US$ 4 MM to US$ 8 MM. This Account increased from 100 to 450 Resources.

Client Partner - GE Corporate

Tata Infotech Ltd AKA Tata Consultancy Services

Consistently achieved revenue targets through effective management of sales team for large bandwidth of products and technologies involving were GIS – MapInfo, ESM- Open Master, eCommerce – InterShop etc. 
Supervised enhancement in product revenue from INR 10 Lakhs to INR 75 Lakhs and projects revenue around MapInfo products moved to INR 5 Crores. 
Conceived and implemented innovative concept of promoting products through Touch Kiosks, Advertising, eCommerce
Intershop-B2C LifeStyle Portal & B2C Auction Portal for Planet Saffron
GIS MapInfo-B2C Travel Portal- Travelgini
Digitization of Electric Network – Tata Electric 
Pure Product sales of - Enterprise Systems Management Across Tata Electric Companies – OpenMaster
BEA – Weblogic – Cognizant, BI- Business Object, Smart Card Solutions. 
Managed sales for wide range products like:
Touch screen Kiosks, eCommerce – Intershop , GIS MapInfo, Enterprise Systems Management OpenMaster ,  BEA – Weblogic BI- Business Object
Smart Card Solutions, Investment Decision Databases & Technical Analysis Packages.

Manager  Sales

Founder fundgini.com | Industry 4.0 @Maxbyte Technologies | Global Business Growth Advisor @Concept Software & Solutions

Shashank Pradhan Founder CEO of Fundgini.com has three Decades of global work experience in Information and communivation technology  industry with Multinational Companies and Large Corporates in India, USA, Europe and Asia. He has performed many Business Roles such as  Sales Planning and Budgeting, Strategy and Monitoring, Alliance Management, Business Development, Account Management and Project Management.

In the Startup ecosystem he has been  associated many organisations such as Allied InCube, ScaleUP USA, Arsh Innovation and Incubation Centre additionally he is Mentor in key organization such as  AIM, NITI Aayog. Society of Innovation and Entrepreneurship IIT Bombay. 

He has  been an Expert Consultant on Strategy, Business and GoTo market with various Large Multinationals forthermore he has  understanding of Local and Global markets for latest Technologies such as IOT, AI-DL-ML, 2D-3D, AR-VR-MR, Cyber Security. He has expertise  in use case identification with a nusiness case. 

On Academic front he has completed Management Development Programme from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Master in Marketing Management Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (Bombay University) with Bachelor of Science (Physics) from Bombay University.

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Shashank Pradhan

Follow me (3+ million views/month). Entrepreneur, director since 1995. Now at Stonehage Fleming / Corient but available for consulting or collabs; Senior tech product or marketing manager, ex startup CEO, CTO, CMO; advisor, or co-founder. I learn fast.
First startup founded in 1995: Anfy Java, a web effects software with millions of users. Latest in 2021: Mofesoft, a women in tech job marketplace, angel funded, accelerator graduated, didn't reach product-market fit, fail fast.

SKILLS: I create, grow, and sell tech-enabled companies and producs; advise, with humor, entrepreneurs and investors about tech private equity, stock, M&A, digital innovation, cloud, software development.
Found, hired, and supervised teams to develop and manage startups, platforms, apps.
Don't hire me to maintain the status quo! I take initiative and encourage others to persistently improve. Global remote work manager with intercultural competence.

My Role: Executive or director, tech product and service research & development, competitive positioning, investments, strategy, HR, product management, marketing and operations, sales and partnerships.

Ideate long-term plans for new profitable services, innovation, and transformation. I connect investors with founders and tech people with business people. I evaluated investment opportunities and pitched to investors, on both sides of the table.

I remotely find, select, hire, train, and manage gender-balanced and diverse teams to build new projects or update existing services. I check user feedback and competition to fix technology, marketing, and sales in existing businesses. I find partners and customers. I execute exit strategies by M&A, selling, or buying companies.

My way: I make errors, but I learn, fail, adapt, and pivot fast. Unlike most managers, I don't stop at the PowerPoint slides level: I was a programmer in the 1990s and can surprise IT staff with questions about their source code.

Recent work: Wealth-tech - wealth management, finance & investment tech - FinTech RegTech KYC AML; Analysis, idea exchange on DevOps and Kubernetes, AI (Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Generative), decision making on Cyber Security, anti-fraud.

Past work: 3D/AR/VR (pre-Metaverse), ERP, all kinds of software selection, update and integration, special effects, live video streaming, social chat apps, video games, licensed gambling and betting apps; online advertising and marketing, media buying, affiliate networks. Read recommendations for more. 

Write me on Linkedin or to fabci@anfyteam.com , I read every email (except spam filtered).

Fabio Ciucci

Are Generation Z (born 1997 to 2012) worse than Boomers (pre-1965) with computers? Late(young) X and early(older) Y/Millennials (~1970-1985) score best: grew up typing LOAD "game" (press play on tape), configuring MS-DOS drivers, etc.

As a test, ask about the file system: file explorer, folders, C drive... Not all "Gen Z" are the same; 1997 vs. 2012, changes every ~5 years, larger PC skills drop after 2004. iPhone was released in 2007. 

Gen Alpha (born after 2010) may be even worse; it depends on whether schools have computer labs or issue laptops. And depends on the family: nerds or not?

AI now generates code, drives file systems, AI OS soon; older tech people are divided between embracing or skipping vibe coding. Is a Gen Z revenge on using AI possible?

What do you think?

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ex CEO, CTO, CMO | Serial Founder | Wealth tech | Hilarious

"Our AI environments are too complex to manage", said 60% of U.S. IT and business decision-makers surveyed. They can't operate these AI projects, and it gets too expensive, so they shut them down:

Some AI vendors or consulting salespeople convinced a business that AI is the solution to many, if not all, problems. Then this happens:

Ideation (easy) -> Data source connection (easy if not deep) -> training (whatever) -> actual deployment and integration (difficult) -> continuous re-training on new available data (too expensive and complex, forever - giving up).

The problem is not just that AI hallucinates or is half-baked and not ready; it's that the people needed to manage it + the GPU server or SaaS bill are expensive and ongoing every year, for life. 

What do you think?

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Elon Musk (Grok) vs Sam Altman (ChatGPT): Your AI killed more people than my AI. ChatGPT causes suicides, Tesla Autopilot causes crashes, and so on. The AI "killer application":

Investigations and lawsuits have linked ChatGPT use to at least 9 deaths. These cases primarily involve severe mental health distress and self-harm allegedly encouraged or facilitated by the AI.

There have been 65 reported fatalities involving Tesla Autopilot: 14 deaths for frontal collisions where the software failed to recognize stationary objects or emergency vehicles, and 2 in Full Self-Driving mode.

What do you think?

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I see a "Promote this post" ad over each of my posts, and too many "promoted" posts in my feed from people I don't follow. Details:

The LinkedIn algorithm changed to give more priority to those who paid for the "Boost" buttons; followers don't matter, only paying brings views.

While other social networks pay content creators a % share of ad revenue, LinkedIn charges content creators a fee. On top of a Premium fee, perhaps.

I know people with 100k+ followers who get 300 views on some posts. Come on. Bookmarking user profile links and returning there is the only way to get their post updates.

I still prefer posting here vs. X, but what do you think?

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Too funny: LinkedIn wants me to promote this post that complains about me seeing a "Promote this post" button. In turn, this post has a "Boost" button:

Edit: LinkedInception! (comment by Jerome Francia).

Someone is paying, because I see a lot of promoted posts in my feed, so this "money over followers" incentive may increase LinkedIn's short-term profit, but what about the long-term?

So you see a (not relevant to you) promoted post too often and click "I don't want to see this," then you see something else too often, which is also not what you followed.

In fact, complaining about LinkedIn is one of the few ways to make viral posts on LinkedIn - as people tend to agree :)

I still prefer posting here vs. X, but what do you think?

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Used a school's computer lab? Mine had IBM PS/2 286 & Compaq 286s, MS-DOS 4, Windows 3.1; 1 or 2 MB RAM, to teach Borland Turbo Pascal and Lotus 123, work saved on floppy disks. No Apple Macs, it was rare in Europe.

You could smell hot plastic, test eyesight at ray tube monitors, hear matrix printer sounds. Secret game play when no teacher: SimCity, Prince of Persia (Doom required 386+, out later), high risk of getting caught.

We were lucky: 1 computer per student; some schools had shifts, 1 computer per 2 or more students, so each had very little time to use it.

Older gen saw 8086 CGA, Apple ][, TRS-80, Commodore PET, C= VIC20, C64, BBC Micro (UK/AU) to learn BASIC, on audio cassette tapes, played Space Invaders, Oregon Trail, etc.;

At colleges/uni: Mainframes with punch cards, DEC PDP-11 or VAX with VT-100 terminal for FORTRAN & COBOL; then CP/M or Unix, like Sun, NeXT.

Younger generations had Windows 95 and even connected to the Internet with a dial-up 56k modem, browsed with Netscape, or played LAN party multiplayer games, but that's ultra-modern.

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Unskippable ads illegal in Vietnam: max 5 seconds. Would Google, Meta, etc., try a "pull out of Vietnam rather than comply" blackmail tactic to provoke a "give us back our social media" uprising vs. the government?

Unsure if this law also forbids consecutive ads? Splitting a long ad into 5-second segments and showing them in sequence would trick the law.

By the way, browser extensions like uBlock Origin and Brave Browser can block ads, though they're sometimes detected, causing the video to not play with a "Don't use ad blockers" message.

What do you think?

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AI CEOs at Davos: China is 6 months behind the West; Crazy to sell Nvidia AI chips to China. Then, META AI is 12+ months behind? LMArena ranks CN top 3 Video, top 6 Code:

GLM (text) + Ying (video): by Z AI, Beijing-based;

MiniMax M1 (text) + Hailuo (video): Shanghai-based, market cap $13.7 Bn

Qwen (text) + Wan (video): by Alibaba Cloud Model Studio. Alibaba, founded by Jack Ma, $137 Bn revenue, $400 Bn market cap.

Doubao (text) + Seedance (video): AI by Bytedance (TikTok), $186 Bn revenue, private valued $500 bn.

Kling (video): by Beijing-based Kuaishou (HKG: 1024), revenue $18.7 Bn, market cap $43.7 Bn. 

+ DeepSeek (caused a stock exchange crash), Kimi by Moonshot AI, Baidu Ernie, Tencent Hunyuan ...

Most people in "the West" may never have heard about these CN AIs, but they are increasingly used by software developers in the US, EU, because open weight and "working".

Google DeepMind's CEO claims that the Chinese do "not innovate beyond the frontier", unsure what he means, just check video apps or try vibe coding with GLM.

What do you think?

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A coworker telling you that keyboard shortcuts are against company policy is probably printing all emails once a day, to respond later by typing the address and all from scratch, from paper.

"A coworker shows me an 'issue' with her Excel: goes to copy and paste, but by highlighting a cell, moving the mouse up to File menu, then down to Copy.

Then moves the mouse to the new cell, clicks, slowly back to File, then down to paste... not even right click to bring up the menu in the cell...

Showed her ctrl-c, ctrl-v and she thought it was magic: 'how did you know that?' - 'it says the shortcut next to the option in the drop down menu...'" - Azazel_fallenangel on Reddit

Have any stories?

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Advice: Don't write "Investor" in your profile, or else you'll get 10+ messages a day from people asking for money. 

Warning: some "investor" or "family office" on LinkedIn is fake and actually sells conferences, introductions, or they're simply scammers.

Charging upfront fees for investor introductions at expensive conferences is not how real investors (and their friends) operate.

If the "investor" charges upfront application or "due diligence" fees, that's not normal.

In doubt, check whether the email is from a Gmail account or from a known investor's domain name. Ask the investor for the startups they backed, and ask for a founder you can contact to verify their story.

I also met data harvesting guys: claim they want to invest or buy the company, ask too much sensitive data: sales, customers, etc., then gone; probably a competitor's spy or "free of charge market research".

Any more fake investors' stories?

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Driverless vans in China, trained on humans and roads under construction: AI pilots are determined to keep moving. Regulation allowed risk to rush technical advancement.

Robust and fearless: road unfinished, no problem. Scooters dragged, no problem. The AI may learn by mistake, a calculated cost.

These are cherry-picked cases: probably AIs drive safer than the average human, just making different errors.

What do you think?

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Anthropic Claude "value" = $350 Billion, OpenAI ChatGPT = $500 Bn, xAI Musk's Grok $230 Bn (just funded $20 Bn), all losing billions of investors' money each quarter.

Claude Opus 4.5 works well for "agentic coding", better than the hallucinations of months ago, as reported by my reliable contacts; ChatGPT 5.2 Codex is catching up.
So there is actual AI value besides deepfake cat videos.

However, the sum of ChatGPT $500B + Claude $350B + Grok $230B + many more startups incl. DeepSeek, and big tech Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot etc. make up too many trillion dollars, mathematically an AI bubble.

Then a data center's construction bubble, then a power generation bubble, etc., but let's focus on the AI providers, those who train models.

Most will crash, and only a few may keep up. Google Gemini will keep up because it's Google; it always catches up and can offer lower prices due to its massive non-AI operations.

Claude and ChatGPT may make earlier code agents to handle multi-step development workflows (planning/ideation, code generation, documentation/research, and testing/review). But competitors will match them.

In particular, 86% of Claude corporate customers deploy coding agents on production, with 42% trusting AI agents to "lead" development (still under human oversight) rather than only offering suggestions.

This Claude report contrasts with previous reports of "90% of AI enterprise pilots failing". However, other AI providers, including Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, may catch up with Claude and offer lower prices.

Ultimately, when all brands of AIs and agentic systems will "work ok", the price will be the differentiator, and "big tech" corporations - not startups - can win on pricing sustainably in the long-term.

What do you think?

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Is AI-generated vibe code finally usable and reliable? Linux & git creator Linus Torvalds used AI for a tool and said it's much better than he could do by hand:

Torvalds still writes C pieces by hand, but for second languages like Python he preferred AI, and he did not mention any hallucinations or problems.

Even more surprising: the Redis author S. Sanfilippo did the first vibe-coded C Redis update; used AI for his best known language and main product, like if Linus vibe coded Linux kernel updates.

Janna Dogan of Google: "I gave Claude Code a description of the problem, it generated in an hour what we built in a year." - that's a personal test, not Google official, but she was shocked by the fast & decent results.

Some software engineers (or even students) say they're quitting the field because "Claude write 70% of all code at my company". The same for image and video editors.

The idea is (or it was?) that AI-generated code contains a lot of nonsense and issues (technical debt), requiring the hiring of more skilled people to fix the mess, rather than saving time and money.

But recent "agentic" updates of Claude Opus, ChatGPT Codex, and Google Gemini with Antigravity, etc., have converted several "famous" programmers into rating vibe coding as (very) good.

These "vibe-testimonials" are from top software developers who can write and understand code independently, without AI; the vibe-coding results may be worse for non-programmer users. 

What do you think?

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Dear followers: 40%+ of you are tech managers, software developers, or startup founders; 20% in finance & VC/PE. I wonder, what can I sell to you, or for you? Details: 

I made 23 million views in 2025 with tech memes and commentary, but with a low conversion ratio into $$. Great talks and new friends, but...

I declined a few sponsored post offers because they didn't align with me, or I feared selling my soul, or they were too cheap. I am trusted because independent.

Most of the contacts I get are people asking for free help or to mentor (I wish, but too many, so I can't, as I don't scale as a human) or trying to sell me stuff (which is fine if not spammy).

Some ask me to invest, even though I removed the "investor" word from my profile. If you want an extra 10+ DMs per day, write "investor" in your title :)

In the past, I advertised my startups as a founder, but since closing the last one (Mofesoft), I haven't founded a new one yet (too much AI noise, I am unsure what problem to solve next). My stats:

14.8% IT Services and IT Consulting
11.3% Software Development
10.9% Technology, Information and Internet

I also have a 20%+ of financial (fintech, banking, wealth management, ...) and VC/PE investor folks following:

10.1% Financial Services
7.8% Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals

Note that I prefer operating (running a startup, market research, product management, sales - frontline mess, services crashing on weekends, ...), rather than speaking or hosting workshops or writing guides - "not a guru, I just solve problems". 

Just asking for feedback - maybe giving an idea for a new startup too.

Edit, best from the comments:

"An anti-slop solution, to filter out a good proportion of the slop." - Bogdan Grigorescu

"Solve the LinkedIn algorithm problem; create a new LinkedIn or a software that can show our content to all our followers." - Chioma Aso

Friday afternoon email: Is Monday morning after "3 days" or "3 working minutes"? During holidays, is it "weeks" or "working minutes" to reply?

Where is the company located, and is it small or large? Expect a U.S. or Asian startup to answer on weekends, not a large European employer.

An autoresponse "my working hours are 8-5 Mon-Fri" set for every weekend may be useful for those who can't think about schedules.

People can email when they want, but if they start with “sorry to email you on the weekend,” does that mean a reply is expected during the weekend, even if they know it's out-of-office time?

Was it really urgent? Better call if very urgent; otherwise, email is considered non-urgent. A "this is very urgent" in the message is still not a phone call.

What do you think?

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LinkedIn's 2026 algorithm change: a large drop in views, but not for everyone. What's going on? Let's discuss:

Are artificial "engagement pods" (groups that like + comment on each other immediately after posting) finally penalized? I still see some of these going.

Is "AI slop" detected and penalized? Too many popular posts look AI-generated; instead, obviously handcrafted content has no views.

Theory: "Longer posts and comments do better than short ones", but AI-generated texts are usually longer! Short, witty one-liners are no good?

I still see "Comment X to get Y" engagement-bait posts being effective; why not ban or penalize these? Hey, comment BTC to get 1 bitcon for free.

Is posting more than once per day penalizing? I can see that 4+ per day penalize, but I also see viral posts from people posting 2/3 per day.

Is it better to post an image always, or can text-only posts become viral, too? Is video a thing?

New theory: profile-content alignment: write posts about the same topic as your profile headline and about section. Maybe?

Were external links bad? Are links bad now? No one knows? :)

Women penalized? Some changed their gender to male and noticed an increase in engagement. LinkedIn said gender is not a factor. 

Keywords penalized? For sure, but what ones...

Automation detection: I often get warned or temporarily blocked because "LinkedIn detected you are using automation tools," but really, I'm just a fast human, no automation or tool...

Dwell time theory: how long users spend viewing your post, versus quick scroll; but MEMEs do well...

How about one or two weeks old posts often appearing in the feed? Late resuscitation of zombie posts?

If everyone sees a drop in views, where are those missing views gone? Were those fake views from bots, killed now?

And why do so many gurus claim they know it all about the algorithm, but have no views on their posts? (sarcasm)

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Sequoia may contribute $1.5B to Anthropic’s $25 Billion funding round with GIC, Coatue and others, for a $350 billion valuation:

Sequoia has previously invested in the competing OpenAI ChatGPT and Elon Musk's xAI Grok: uncommon for VCs. Maybe Sequoia thinks Claude will win over ChatGPT? Or the AI hype, "invest in all them"?

Claude is getting popular. The Wall Street Journal: "Claude Is Taking the AI World by Storm, and Even Non-Nerds Are Blown Away - hobbyists are comparing the viral moment for Claude Code to the launch of generative AI".

While non-coders still tend to call AI "slop" and a "hallucinating parrot," software engineers who have recently tried Claude report excitement mixed with fear of becoming unemployed and replaced by AI.

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Google AI can't believe the Trump's "Greenland" or "settles 8 conflicts" headlines could be real; "nothing like this can ever happen"; hypothesis: deceived by a Matrix-like simulation showing me fake search results? hallucinating?

AI's internal knowledge is updated (re-trained) only a few times per year, and news after the "cutoff date" is learned through web searches; however, AIs should be careful to avoid fake news or fiction.

Lately, reality is stranger than fiction. There are too many changes: the United States has not had a "Department of War", the Gulf Of Mexico was not Gulf of America, so many unlikely transformations may let an AI think it's a joke.

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TikTok U.S. will spin off and Americanize its algorithm on Oracle (Ellison) + Dell servers in Texas; critics argue TikTok may end up right-leaning or X-like (Ellison is also an X shareholder and Musk friend).

Official announcement: "The Joint Venture will safeguard the U.S. content through trust and safety policies and content moderation; retrain and update the content recommendation algorithm, with decision-making authority."

TikTok USDS Joint Venture has three managing investors: Silver Lake, Oracle and MGX (Abu Dhabi UAE state), each holding 15%. ByteDance [China] retains 19.9%. Other investors: Michael Dell, Susquehanna (Jeff Yass, donated $16M to MAGA), Fox (Murdoch), ... + more.

TikTok outside the U.S. keeps the Chinese algorithm and ownership, with no changes for users in Europe, Australia, etc., although American users visible globally will be "moderated" the Oracle / Fox / Susquehanna way.

The old "global" TikTok app will be discontinued in the U.S., and American users will need to download a new app. Next, will Europe and other countries make a separate TikTok, too?

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