Startup Tech Stack, Plausible Tomorrows, and Effective Team Dynamics

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Good morning

In today's edition, among other things:

• Plausible Tomorrows 2035-2049

• The Startup Tech Stack

• Gen AI Adoption in 2024

• Effective Team Dynamics

• How Many VC Meetings do Startups Need to Raise their Seed Round?

• US Startup Fundraising Benchmarks

• 2+2 Storytelling

• How to Hire with AI

• How to Become a CTO

• The EU AI Act: Guide for Developers

Onwards!

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Plausible Tomorrows 2035-2049

Khosla Ventures dropped a Plausible Tomorrows 2035-2049 deck. Main takeaways:

#1: expertise will be free

We will be capable of having accessible AI-based near free tutors for every child, and doctors for every citizen 24x7.

#2: labor will be near free

We will have a billion bipedal (and other) robots freeing humans from the servitude of undesirable jobs, creating a larger industry than the auto industry

#3: computer use will grow expansively

There will be a billion+ programmers all “programming” in natural, human language, dramatically increasing what can be done with computers. Computers will adapt to humans, not humans to computers, democratizing computers

#4: AI will play a large role in entertainment & design

Music and entertainment will be plentiful, and personalized for you and your mood! Content creation would be commoditized, but not change the celebrity-consumer relationship

#5: internet access will be mostly by agents

Most consumer access of the internet will be agents acting for consumers doing tasks and fending off marketers and bots. Tens of billions of agents on the internet will be normal

#6: there will be clean, dispatchable electric power

By 2050, fusion boilers will retrofit and replace coal and natural gas boilers reducing the need to build whole new fusion plants. Superhot geothermal >400C is also a real alternative

#7: cars could be displaced in cities

We could replace the majority of cars in most cities with personal autonomous transit as on-demand, affordable, public transit with little public financing. This will reduce congestion, increase city street throughput

#8: flying will be faster

We will have Mach 5 planes that get us from NYC to London in 90 minutes – on sustainable aviation fuel, making the world closer!

#9: resources will be plentiful

We can discover more natural resources than we consume & prove resource doomers wrong on lithium, cobalt, copper…

#10: we will have new food & fertilizers

We will have much better alternate protein production to replace traditional animal protein, & “green” fertilizer. And taste will far exceed that of traditional cows!

#11: from the practice to the science of medicine

We will be capable of providing precision care based on patients’ -omics, as well as AI models for each individual enabling N=1 personalized simulation, therapeutics, drug dosage

#12: carbon will have solutions, if we have time

Carbon emissions could be a smaller issue because we will get entrepreneurs to develop & scale better technologies for cement, steel, agriculture, transportation, power production, DAC, etc.

Almost all are pretty bold predictions, some with big societal impact if true (#2), some difficult to believe today (#9) and some pretty obvious, yet significant (#5).

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The Startup Tech Stack