Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” has been out for only a few days, yet it’s already obvious that we’ll be talking about it for years to come — it’s breaking records across streaming platforms, and the artist herself calls it “the best music [she’s] ever made.” But in the middle of the press release for “Cowboy Carter,” Beyoncé made an unexpected statement against the growing presence of AI in music.
Some of the best-known AI companies, like Open AI and Stability AI, use datasets that include copyrighted artworks without consent.
Beyoncé’s stance makes even more sense in the context of “Cowboy Carter” itself.
Though it does not explicitly discuss AI, “Cowboy Carter” already addresses the theft and appropriation of artworks without consent.
Even the title “Cowboy Carter” nods to the appropriation of Black music for white people’s gain.
When it comes to design, it definitely looks like a Cowboy bike with its pill-shaped front light, angular design and soft matte colors.
Again, everything has been designed to make the Cowboy Cross more comfortable than existing Cowboy bikes.
There are two designs for the aluminum frame as the Cowboy Cross is available in step-over and step-through variants.
So it’s going to be important to make sure that the Cowboy Cross can easily be maintained over the long haul.
“There was a big overlap of customers considering both VanMoof and Cowboy bikes,” Roose said.
This is our interview show, where we sit down with interesting, knowledgeable folk and dive deep into their favorite topics.
This time around, we invited Cowboy Ventures’ Aileen Lee to chat through her massive new article concerning the unicorn world.
If you didn’t know, it was Lee who initially coined the term “unicorn” in a TechCrunch article back in 2013.
Lee talked us through the data and taught us all sorts of new terms.
You can sort of understand what one means when they say “unicorpse” or “zombiecorn,” but apparently there are even more exotic unicorn forms out there.
Consumer tech is bound for a comeback among unicorns, but maybe not just yetTen years after Cowboy Ventures’ founder Aileen Lee gave unicorns their nickname, she and her team are back with fresh analysis on private companies worth more than $1 billion.
As the number of unicorns boomed from 39 to more than 532, Cowboy found that their very nature also changed.
“The pendulum swung hard to enterprise, with 78% of unicorns today focused on B2B, the inverse of 2013,” Lee and her team member Allegra Simon wrote.
But spending more than a decade in tech teaches you something: to be ready for the pendulum to swing back.
Hence Cowboy’s prediction that “given the hard shift to enterprise,” we can “hope and expect more exciting consumer unicorns will be born in coming years.”
Cowboy Ventures has once again set the precedent in the seed-stage investing world, with its latest two funds totaling $260 million. With this capital influx, Cowboy Ventures will be able…
