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Top 6 Best Bare Metal Hosting Services in 2025

Bare metal hosting is what you move to when “good enough” performance and control stops being good enough. If you’re running latency-sensitive apps, training AI...

The Airbnbs

December 2020To celebrate Airbnb's IPO and to help future founders, I thought it might be useful to explain what was special about Airbnb.What was special...

More context, more confidence: The new CX Score explained

Customer expectations have never been higher. People expect fast, accurate, and effortless support, every time. And across industries, from ecommerce to financial services to...

An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to...

Thanks to the AI boom devouring the majority of the world's memory and storage supply, end-consumers are now facing increasingly inflated prices for common...

Enshitification – Feld Thoughts

I’ve been a long-time Cory Doctorow fan. His new book Enshitification is delicious. Yup – I understand that a shit emoji doesn’t inspire deliciousness.Now...

AI agent evaluation replaces data labeling as the critical path to production deployment

As LLMs have continued to improve, there has been some discussion in the industry about the continued need for standalone data labeling tools, as...

The Startup Junkies Podcast | 2: The Transship Story: A Journey from Cold Storage to AI-Powered Shipping with Amit Hasak

SummaryIn this episode of the Fuel Podcast, Grace Gill sits down with...

Steve Blank The Department of War Just Shot the Accountants and Opted for Speed

Last week the Department of War finally killed the last vestiges of Robert McNamara’s 1962 Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS).  The DoW has pivoted...

What is a Podcast? How podcasts work and how to get started

New to the world of podcasting? You might be wondering, well, what is a podcast? And how do they work? In this article I’ll...

7 Essential Best Practices for Recruiting

In terms of recruitment, implementing best practices can greatly improve your hiring process. Start by crafting clear and inclusive job descriptions that attract a...

Which Ones Actually Ship a Decent Site?

AI website builders promise a lot: “Describe your business in a sentence and we’ll generate a beautiful, high-converting site in 30 seconds.” Sometimes you actually...

Billionaires Build

December 2020As I was deciding what to write about next, I was surprised to find that two separate essays I'd been planning to write were...

Hollywood demos vs. real-world demos

There are two types of AI demos: the “Hollywood demo,” which is highly produced, polished, and looks pretty perfect; and the “real-world demo,” which...

Marble: A Multimodal World Model

Spatial intelligence is the next frontier in AI, demanding powerful world models to realize its full potential. World models should reconstruct, generate, and simulate 3D worlds; and...

The Bear Roars: Dan and Brad

I recently joined Dan Caruso on The Bear Roars podcast, and our conversation brought one thing into focus: we’re living through a shift that’s...

6 proven lessons from the AI projects that broke before they scaled

Companies hate to admit it, but the road to production-level AI deployment is littered with proof of concepts (PoCs) that go nowhere, or failed...