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Liftoff: AI won't fix your GTM. Most companies want agents before their data is clean enough to trust.
Recorded with Max Hoffer of Stack Finder, who finds the revenue leaks hiding underneath. Out soon.
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Liftoff: if 60-90% of your customers churn, stop rebuilding the product. Go look at who you sold it to.
Max Hoffer of Stack Finder digs for hidden revenue leaks for a living, and the wrong audience is the one founders miss. Episode coming soon. liftoffwithkeith.com/
Serious cheese for Sebastian Thrun's new startup Dulo raised a $130M seed backed by Eric Schmidt and John Doerr, to build AI models that design and validate engineering work like planes and cars from a written prompt.
AI initiatives generated $216M in business value through the first 9 months of 2026, Meta's AI investments are driving incremental ad revenue and Alphabet's Cloud revenue more than 2X last qtr. Corporate AI investment hit $581B in 2025, per Stanford HAI, up 130% year over year.
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In 2024 just before the season opener, Veronica Burton learned she had been cut by the Dallas Wings. After being drafted 7th overall in 2022, it just never quite clicked. She averaged just 2.4ppg in 2023. Burton says she was embarrassed, she went home & worked out in a YMCA with her high school coach, waiting for her shot. The Connecticut Sun picked her up later that season, and the Valkyries saw her special potential. They picked her in the expansion draft, she was the 2025 WNBA Most Improved Player, and now she’s a champion. Resilience. #valkyries
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The Golden State Valkyries are WNBA Champions! @KevinDannaPxP on the call!
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In 1996, Bay Area Venture capitalist Joe Lacob had a dream of building a championship sports franchise. Joe believed women’s basketball was the next big thing & wanted to show his daughters that women’s sports matter. So he invested in the newly formed American Basketball League & became the owner of the San Jose Lasers, but the league abruptly folded in 1998 & Lacob lost $10million dollars. He said he had no regrets he still believed in women’s basketball. 30 years nearly to the day that the Lasers played their first game, the Valkyries played in game 1 of the WNBA Finals. Now they are champions. A dream deferred until the world was ready. You did it Joe. #wnba #valkyries
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Jared Kushner and Trump seem upset the Netherlands hacked into boy wonder’s phone
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Is that @brockpurdy13 @gkittle46 or @JuiceCheck44 - Happy bye week and dont eat any unwrapped candy. peace, out @49ers for the RING in LA 2.14.27 w JayZ @49ersSpin
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I’m working on something related to small VC funds that I hope to launch within the next few weeks. ✨
If you already invest in multiple funds under $50M, I’d love to chat and trade notes.
I’m especially interested in how you evaluate emerging managers, build a portfolio across funds, and think about the long tail of early-stage VC.
What has worked well? What have you learned? What would you do differently today?
More from Liftoff - @Gartner_inc warned up to $3.5T in AI infrastructure spending could be exposed to impairment by 2030, estimating an $5 trillion gap between planned data-center investment and realistic AI revenue. @IgniteGTM
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WTH THIS IS HORRIFYING
Police punch Hispanic man already pinned to ground—22 times.
Officer had already shot him with taser.
"He stiffly hit the ground after being tased, and his head banged on asphalt," said witness.
"Cop mounts him and starts beating—later 3 more piled on."
Just because man was standing in the road blocking some traffic.
Witnesses say he looked like he was having a mental episode—and was not trying to harm anyone.
Emergency crews were called and took the man to the hospital.
Local police confirmed the incident occurred at 3:15 pm—but released no other details except to say it was "under review."
Incident occurred on Auburn Way near 37th Street NE in Auburn, Washington.
WHat would Steve Jobs say as the newest MacBook Pro features a PROLED XDR display — which @Apple claims is the “world’s best laptop display” along with touchscreen capabilities and a Dynamic Island multi-function hub for frequently used tools. (Steve denied the touchscreen idea)
Under the hood, the M5 Pro/Max chip powers on-device AI abilities while offering up to 24 hours of battery life. Pre-orders are open now. Shipping starts Nov. 6th. See how it stacks up against Apple’s standard MacBook Pro. @AppleNews @appleinsider
Crunchbase data shows Series B funding is concentrating hard: about $48B has gone into Series B rounds this year even as the number of rounds hits a multi-year low, with roughly two-thirds of the money going to AI startups — Bezos-backed Prometheus's $12B round leads the pack.
Liftoff: when people ask me what matters for founders, I say storytelling and distribution.
Commonplace's edge is 3,000 vetted drivers run by 15 employees.
Kami Vision is taking fall detection into elder care through partners.
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Liftoff of the Week: 3 co's that skipped the default.
Commonplace calls itself logistics, not a marketplace.
CTRL ENERGY bootstrapped after VCs passed on repairable batteries. Kami Vision sells through partners, not direct. liftoffwithkeith.com/
Liftoff: Elon expects "a lot of stranded compute." A neolab says GPU rents are up 2-3x so they'll just resell.
At NeoCloud I sat down with Carmen Li, building the price layer (Silicon Data) and the market (Compute Exchange).
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