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“2024 TechCrunch Early Stage: Unveiling the Dynamics of Venture Connections with Lily Lyman from Underscore”

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Enter Underscore VC’s Lily Lyman, who is coming to TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 in Boston to discuss how founders can build investor relationships with the right venture capitalists. She will discuss how to build venture relationships ahead of time, and how founders can — and should! In today’s more stringent venture environment, founders can’t run a 2021-era playbook (unless they are building an AI foundational model company, I suppose). So, bring your notebooks and questions to Lyman’s Early Stage session coming up next month. She’ll be joined by a bevy of other startup folks who will be on hand to share their hard-earned wisdom.

Bumble slashes hundreds of workers amid a dating app reckoning

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Bumble, a once-powerful force in online dating, is facing a reckoning. CEO Lidiane Jones announced that 37% of Bumble’s workforce, or about 350 employees, would be let go, and that Bumble would embark on an app overhaul targeted at reviving growth. And many of the capabilities introduced in Bumble’s apps in the past 18 months haven’t resonated with the user base, Jones said during the call. Jones, who joined from Slack in January, appointed four new C-suite executives at Bumble in the last week alone. Dating apps generally — including Match Group’s — have seen declining revenue from users reluctant to fork over cash for premium add-ons.

FTC Mandates Transparency from AI Businesses: Disclosing Investments, Collaborations, and Conferences

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The FTC is aiming to unravel the complex and secretive corporate relationships in the top AI companies out there in a new inquiry. What are these companies but a proxy for the ambitions of the extant tech superpowers? As companies race to develop and monetize AI, we must guard against tactics that foreclose this opportunity,” Khan continued in her statement. The orders sent to the companies listed above compel them to share:Partnerships, investments, and the “strategic rationale” for themWhether these partnerships have “practical implications” such as when or how new products are releasedWhat do they talk about at meetings? After all, why shouldn’t companies that have already spent billions pursuingIncidentally, today the FTC is hosting a summit on AI and its opportunities and dangers, in the sense of markets and startups.

FTC Demands Transparency from AI Firms: Insights into Investments, Collaborations, and Conferences

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The FTC is aiming to unravel the complex and secretive corporate relationships in the top AI companies out there in a new inquiry. What are these companies but a proxy for the ambitions of the extant tech superpowers? As companies race to develop and monetize AI, we must guard against tactics that foreclose this opportunity,” Khan continued in her statement. The orders sent to the companies listed above compel them to share:Partnerships, investments, and the “strategic rationale” for themWhether these partnerships have “practical implications” such as when or how new products are releasedWhat do they talk about at meetings? After all, why shouldn’t companies that have already spent billions pursuingIncidentally, today the FTC is hosting a summit on AI and its opportunities and dangers, in the sense of markets and startups.