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The VC perspective on successful AI startups
You might have a cool idea for an AI startup, but is it venture backable? General Catalyst's Christopher Kauffman will tell you.

We introduced our first AI avatar professor. Here’s why.
Earlier this month, we wrapped our very first AI avatar-led course. Here's the nitty-gritty calculus behind our decision to try avatars as instructors.

Meet your professor: Apple’s Amit Rawal from AI for Data Analysis
We sat down with Apple’s Amit Rawal to ask him all the things you should know before you take his course – including a sneak peek into his data analysis framework.

Pi had a million users. So why did Inflection just implode (and take Pi with it)?
Microsoft just cannibalized a company it was a lead investor in and took its chatbot down with it. Here's what that means for other AI startups.

The 2024 AI advancements that changed everything
Our Lead AI Consultant, Chase Ballard is walking through the AI advancements that changed everything in 2024 – and what that means for you in 2025.

2024 Wrapped: Our top 3 insights from a year of covering AI use cases
We added over 30,000 subscribers to our AI Strategy Brief community in 2024. We also spoke with more than 50 experts about how they’re getting value from AI. So this week, we analyzed the data from our 50+ posts this year to see what resonated most with you.

Leaking our own AI manifesto
We’ve been all in on AI for a while – but this week we made it official. In this week’s newsletter, Greg is sharing his newest thinking on AI, and why we changed our domain to sectionai.com.

Warmly CEO: “Do 30% more with AI, or you’re underperforming”
We’ve seen a lot of bold announcements and leaked AI manifestos recently painting a future of clear, AI-first leadership. We sat down with Warmly’s CEO, Max Greenwald, to talk about his own AI mandate: 30% growth from every employee by the end of the year.