Interesting things I read this week.
A random collection of 'good reads' for founders and folks in the startup ecosystem...
I hope everyone had a great week, here’s some fun weekend reading and a summary of interesting things I read this week you may enjoy.
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Now For the Articles…
How to make your company AI Native -
Rick Rubin on Vibe Coding→
Long-time readers know I’m following the ‘Organic traffic fallling off a cliff’ trend - digiday (in the ad/publisher world) has some really startling data on this trend→
Here’s a pretty amazing chart from that piece→
Even with that Google CEO Sundar Pichai doesn’t seem worried and sees opportunity.
I’m very fascinated to see if Google is going to be able to escape the Innovator’s Dilemma here. My spidey sense says they won’t be able to.
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