The state of generative AI in 7 charts https://www.cbinsights.com/research/generative-ai-funding-top-startups-investors/

Salesforce Shows Incumbents’ Power in AI Race https://www.theinformation.com/articles/salesforce-shows-incumbents-power-in-ai-race

Anthropic raises $450M to build next-gen AI assistants https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/23/anthropic-raises-350m-to-build-next-gen-ai-assistants/

Microsoft invests billions more dollars in OpenAI, extends partnership https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/23/microsoft-invests-billions-more-dollars-in-openai-extends-partnership/

AI startup Cohere, now valued at over $2.1B, raises $270M https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/08/ai-startup-cohere-now-valued-at-over-2-1b-raises-270m/

Inflection AI, The Year-Old Startup Behind Chatbot Pi, Raises $1.3 Billion https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2023/06/29/inflection-ai-raises-1-billion-for-chatbot-pi/?sh=432327f81d7e

Nvidia and the Corporate VC Boom Ahead https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-and-the-corporate-vc-boom-ahead?rc=gdi3uj

The History of Salesforce https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/the-history-of-salesforce/

Marc Benioff’s Grand Vision on The End of Software; The Rise of Salesforce https://www.thesoftwarereport.com/marc-benioffs-grand-vision-on-the-end-of-software/

Marc Benioff tweet https://twitter.com/benioff/status/1052280290943545344?lang=en

The Staged Protest That Kickstarted The Growth of Salesforce Into A Billion-Dollar Company https://entrepreneurshandbook.co/the-staged-protest-that-kickstarted-the-growth-of-salesforce-into-a-billion-dollar-company-a53d6995f762

Salesforce 20th Birthday Film https://youtu.be/5DsyfLvpr9Q

The Launch of Salesforce.com and the End of Software https://www.provokemedia.com/latest/article/the-launch-of-salesforce-com-and-the-end-of-software

Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=XX5QJ7hfDW8C&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&dq=The+Internet+is+really+neat+…+Software+is+obsolete!"&source=bl&ots=DYf0ZbDet2&sig=VFeAZOe2b2gYcPISlwyo04ouWvA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9fJgT_voNsjC2wXV99SbCA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=The Internet is really neat … Software is obsolete!"&f=false

AI startups: Sell work, not software https://www.sarahtavel.com/p/ai-startups-sell-work-not-software

Personal Injury Lawyers & Attorneys in the US - Number of Businesses 2004–2029 https://www.ibisworld.com/industry-statistics/number-of-businesses/personal-injury-lawyers-attorneys-united-states/

Product-Led AI https://greylock.com/greymatter/seth-rosenberg-product-led-ai/

Brian Feroldi tweet https://twitter.com/BrianFeroldi/status/1284795114187919362

#212 Daily Memo - 8/30/2023 https://note.com/offtopic/membership/boards/e90d89bd10b6/posts/a063bb8e084e

The Mobile Challenge https://www.usv.com/writing/2009/06/the-mobile-challenge/