Although iconic founders like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg famously didn’t finish college, multiple studies show that the vast majority of successful startups had founders with bachelor’s or graduate degrees.
Despite this data, the appeal of a dropout founder persists, though VC enthusiasm for the ‘un-degreed’ is far from constant. It is a phenomenon that…
Investors predict AI is coming for labor in 2026
January 1, 2026
Concerns about how AI will affect workers continue to rise in lockstep with the pace of advancements and new products promising automation and efficiency.
Evidence suggests that fear is warranted.
A November MIT study found an estimated 11.7% of jobs could already be…
The phone is dead. Long live . . . what exactly?
January 1, 2026
True Ventures co-founder Jon Callaghan doesn’t think we’ll be using smartphones the way we do now in five years – and maybe not at all in 10.
For a venture capitalist whose firm has had some big winners over its two decades – from consumer brands like…
The best AI-powered dictation apps of 2025
December 31, 2025
In some ways, 2025 was when AI dictation apps really took off. Dictation apps have been around for years, but in the past they’ve proved slow and inaccurate – unless you speak with particular accents and enunciate clearly.
But advances in large language models (LLMs) and speech-to-text models have helped improve the systems that can decipher speech better while retaining the context…
Enterprises have been piloting and testing different AI tools for the past few years to figure out what their adoption strategy will look like. Investors think that period of experimentation is coming to an end.
TechCrunch recently surveyed 24 enterprise-focused VCs and an…
Mark Zuckerberg has struck again.
Meta Platforms is acquiring Manus, a Singapore-based AI startup that’s become the talk of Silicon Valley since it debuted last spring with a demo video that showed an AI agent doing things like screening job candidates, planning…
There has been a flurry of AI voice recording gadgets like Omi, Bee, and Friend that want to capture your voice and let you converse with an AI chatbot. While Bee was acquired by Amazon, and devices like the Stream ring by Sandbar and a new AI ring from former Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky are set to enter the market next year, the jury is still out on the success of wearable AI devices.
Amid all…
How to use the new ChatGPT app integrations, including DoorDash, Spotify, Uber, and others
December 30, 2025
OpenAI offers app integrations in ChatGPT to allow you to connect your accounts directly to ChatGPT and ask the assistant to do things for you. For instance, with a Spotify integration, you can tell it to create personalized playlists that will show up right in your Spotify…
VCs predict strong enterprise AI adoption next year — again
December 30, 2025
It’s been three years since OpenAI released ChatGPT and kicked off a surge in innovation and attention on AI. Since then, optimists have regularly claimed that AI will become a critical part of the enterprise software industry, and so enterprise AI startups mushroomed…
India’s startup ecosystem raised nearly $11 billion in 2025, but investors wrote far fewer checks and grew more selective about where they took risk, underscoring how the world’s third most-funded startup market is diverging from the AI-fueled capital concentration seen in the U.S.
The selective approach was most evident in deal-making. The number of startup funding rounds fell by…
