CM Weekly: Designer Partners, BaaS, Text to Video
Chris McCann's weekly newsletter on technology, startups, and venture capital.
Written by Chris McCann, General Partner @ Race Capital. More about me.
🗞️ Interesting Reads
A framework for getting your first design partners/customers for founders.
A great technical primer to better understand the inner workings of LLMs.
Thoughts on Salesloft’s acquisition of Drift and implications for SaaS.
Update on the banking as a service (BaaS) model. TLDR - There has been an material increase in the scrutiny and regulatory costs of BaaS providers and apps that use them.
Slides from Datadog's investor day. Datadog is sifting more into the software delivery markets in addition to their core products around monitoring and observability.
OpenAI released their new text to video model with some impressive outputs. It’s not public yet but could have some big broad implications especially within the consumer/media industries.
🔥 Startup Jobs
By Company: Databricks, GoodNotes, Zeet, Polysign, Opaque, Lightning Labs, OtterTune, and more
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By Location: SF Bay Area, New York, London, and Remote
Browse more open roles across our portfolio at Race Capital's Portfolio Job Board.
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