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FirstMark's 2nd annual Alternative Capital Demo Day is happening November 14th at 5:30pm — want to attend? Join the waitlist here: https://shorturl.at/EjjzY This evening is an opportunity for select members of our network to hear from emerging companies whose businesses leverage credit / structured capital to scale. By attending, you will: ➡️ Hear from 7 fascinating companies spanning next-generation structured credit, real estate, and alternative investments. ➡️ Get an inside look at non-obvious opportunities to drive outsized returns in the fintech ecosystem. ➡️ Have quality networking time with founders, hedge funds, credit funds, institutional LPs, family offices, and VCs. See you there!

I had such a great time talking "Where Tech Meets Politics: The 2024 Election & Beyond" at the FirstMark CEO Summit with my friend and former United States Senate Committee on Finance colleague Chris Campbell. It was also fun reconnecting with Omaze UK CEO Matthew Pohlson and my fellow board members Rick Heitzmann, Wyc Grousbeck, and Sim Blaustein. Thank you Rick and Ben Winn for the invitation and congratulations to the entire FirstMark team on another successful CEO Summit and Founder Dinner at the NYSE!! #Speaker #Election2024 #Business #Tech #Economy

Last week was one of our favorite days of the year: the FirstMark CEO Summit & Annual Founder Dinner at the iconic NYSE 🏛️ We brought FirstMark founders together to... ✅ Ring the opening bell ✅ Hear from bestselling authors, political leaders, and brilliant executives ✅ Collaborate with peer CEOs in breakout sessions ✅ Learn special skills from Navy SEALs ✅ Hoist the NBA Championship trophy (big thanks to Wyc!) ...and more! We then closed the day by hosting 250 VC Partners and Founders for a reception on the NYSE Trading Floor and a seated dinner in the Boardroom, bringing the NYC venture ecosystem together for an incredible once-a-year celebration. Thank you to everyone who joined us! We've called NYC our home for almost two decades, and feel more excited and energized than ever by the growth and potential of the greatest city in the world 🗽 Thank you to our partners at NYSE, Riviera Partners, Silicon Valley Bank, and Gunderson Dettmer — we are already looking forward to next year!

What an incredible experience it was to once again take part in the NYSE opening bell ceremony with our investors FirstMark. A huge thank you to Matt, Rick, and Amish for the invitation! And Ben and May, you smashed the event! 🔔 🇺🇸 Have a great week, everyone! #database #nyse #SurrealDB

Spots are going quick for our next Data Driven NYC event featuring: ➡️ May Habib (Cofounder & CEO of Writer) ➡️ Erik Bernhardsson (Founder of Modal) ➡️ Leonard Tang (Cofounder & CEO of Haize Labs) ➡️ Viraj Mehta (Cofounder & CTO of TensorZero) Reserve your spot and join NYC's largest AI/ML meetup at Ramp on November 6 at: https://lnkd.in/gaR4NJqK

Clem Delangue 🤗 has led Hugging Face from an unlikely pivot to a $4.5B valuation and dominant position as the world’s collaboration platform for open source AI. Great episode where we covered the geopolitics of open source AI, the rise of small models, why NLP is boring and trashing the lean startup handbook 🎙️ * YouTube: https://lnkd.in/ejcNAQpc * Spotify: https://lnkd.in/eQtBvQfs * Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/esktg66g

My chat with Clem Delangue 🤗 of Hugging Face: 01:46 - Miami vs. New York vs. San Francisco 03:25 - Is Open source AI in trouble? 11:12 - Government regulation of AI 13:18 - What does open source actually mean, in AI? 15:21 - The geopolitics of Open source AI: China vs U.S. 18:32 - LLMs vs. SLMs 22:01 - Are commercial LLMs just 'Training Wheels' for enterprises? 24:26 - Software 2.0: built with AI 28:03 - Hugging Face's original pivot story 37:03 - Competition and network effects 44:06 - Most interesting emerging models on Hugging Face 50:35 - The Hugging Face business model 55:06 - Bloom & Idefix 58:44 - Trash the lean startup handbook: building a different company culture 01:04:44 - The future of Hugging Face https://lnkd.in/efXZrfMw

There's no city like New York City! Last night we were honored to welcome over 200 investors and founders to the iconic NYSE for our Annual Founder Dinner 🏛️ The incredible growth of this event year after year, the relationships built here, and the electric energy of the room, are a testament to how much the New York venture ecosystem has continued to accelerate. We're so grateful to all the friends of FirstMark who joined us, and we couldn't be prouder to be supporting so many brilliant founders making their mark on the world. Looking forward to another year of innovation and growth in the best city in the world! 🗽 Huge thank you to our friends at Gunderson Dettmer, Riviera Partners, and SVB for supporting this event.

Well this is definitely going down as a memorable day...got to start the morning by ringing the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange. No, Momentum.io hasn't gone public (yet!) but our amazing investors FirstMark hosted their annual founder summit there today. What a cool experience to spend the day with other founders, sharing stories and getting to hear from speakers like best selling authors Charles Duhigg and Ben Mezrich, and Boston Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck. Thank you Amish David Ben Rick and the entire FirstMark team. And yes mom, that was me on TV!

LIVE on NYSE TV 🎙️Tune in as FirstMark kicks off its Annual CEO Summit!