That's a wrap on our first annual GTM AI Summit in NYC! Thanks to everyone who joined us. We did our best to capture the highlights, check it out 👇

Halfway through an amazing day! Already inspired by some incredible insights from today’s speakers. Kristina McMillan shared a brilliant perspective on the state of GTM AI. Her take on its impact on marketing was definitely my favorite part (no surprise there 🙃). David Boskovic broke down the “black magic” of GTM with clarity and depth, and Jeff Long offered a fascinating look into the evolution of AI for @Snowflake’s outbound. Excited for what’s coming next in the second half of the day! @scalevp #VentureCapitalSummit #GTM #AI

Our @ScaleVP GTM AI Summit kicks off today in NYC, where we’re bringing together some of the best minds in go-to-market and AI. Energy is already electric. 🔥

Excited to kick off our GTM AI Summit at the @BrantFoundation in NYC! We've got an incredible lineup of founders, operators, and GTM leaders digging into what’s actually working in this new era of AI-driven growth.

🔥🚪👀 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗘 𝗗𝗥𝗢𝗣 𝗜𝗡𝗦, weekly profiles of cracked teams | Ep 14: @browserbase (w/ @pk_iv) Browserbase is flying. Before arriving, I hadn’t even known that they’d launched a new product (Director) that morning, and Paul mentioned that they were number 1 on ProductHunt so casually that I almost missed it. At its core, Browserbase is a made-for-agents headless browser. Additional products like Stagehand and Director offer higher-level abstractions for developers and low-code hackers to leverage Browserbase in building agents that take over browser-native processes. More on the Broswerbase product and company culture in this week’s Office Drop In. --- #startups #venturecapital #AI #hiring #officedropins

The only podcast you have to listen to every week. No politics. Just tech. - Navan IPO: Winners & Losers - Is a $4.5BN Exit Enough Today? - Harvey Raises $150M at $8BN Price - Why Google is a Buy & Amazon is a Sell - Meta Down 10%, is Zuck Struggling? Spotify 👉 open.spotify.com/episode/5er… Youtube 👉 piped.video/MftJZXDzPpw Apple Podcasts 👉 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… Timestamps: 01:03 Navan's IPO: Winners, Losers and 20% Crater 20:53 Harvey Raises $150M at an $8BN Valuation 34:16 Was Sam Altman Wrong to Snap at Brad Gerstner 42:41 Why Google is a Buy and Amazon is a Short 50:30 Meta Down 10%, Buy or Sell? 52:21 If You Have Not Accelerated with AI, You Are Dead 01:10:05 Why Now is the Best Time for Series A and Worst for Seed My 5 takeaways with @jasonlk and @rodriscoll 👇

The playbook for building a winning startup is changing, with an emphasis on sustainable growth over explosive growth. Here's how that may play out based on our 2025 whisper numbers. scalevp.com/insights/2025-wh…

Sponsored by @harmonic_ai: At last night's StrictlyVC event, @scalevp Parter Alex Niehenke speaks on the possibility of startups breaking into certain verticals.

Five years ago, @rodriscoll warned that the SaaS wave had peaked. So what are he and @scalevp investing in these days? You guessed it: AI. news.crunchbase.com/ai/saas-…

AI SOC Analysts: LLMs find a home in the security org scalevp.com/insights/ai-soc-… Great post from Shayan Shafii. The SOC analyst is about to get automated with LLMs. Low-grade work vanishes, and high-end skills will be at a premium. @scalevp wants to invest here

Platform shifts create huge opportunities for infra startups. We're seeing enthusiasm from VCs with massive rounds and sky high valuations. But, is the hype warranted? TL;DR: Not necessarily, but it's not all bad news. scalevp.com/insights/goldmin…

We're excited to announce our investment in @usebland With Bland's proprietary models and Zapier-style flow builder, enterprises can securely build, test, and deploy their own AI phone calling agents. scalevp.com/insights/announc…

In @edsim's recent newsletter, he reinforced this thread with a Gartner quote: in 5 years, enterprises with AI augmented testing tools will go from 15% to 80%! Here's @QAWolfHQ explaining how AI augmented testing works: qawolf.com/blog/why-qa-wolf-…

We created a tool to help founders sketch out what their path to IPO might look like—how big they need to be and how fast they need to grow at every stage in their journey. scalevp.com/insights/the-pat…

Great post from my guy Pete Giordano. "Four product marketing fundamentals to implement this week" via @scalevp scalevp.com/insights/four-pr…

Thx (belated) to @rm_rafailov and @archit_sharma97 for their talk on DPO as part of the @scalevp New Ideas in AI series. DPO allows for faster alignment with fewer compute resources. This moves the needle in a compute-constrained world.@maggie_basta scalevp.com/insights/new-ide…

Was a blast to chat with @archit_sharma97 and @rm_rafailov about their Direct Preference Optimization paper at our quarterly @scalevp "New Ideas in AI" dinner series. Ever since their amazing paper came out last December, I'd been looking forward to interviewing them as I don't think the broader AI community has internalized the magnitude of their contribution to the next generation of alignment research. Favorite moment of the talk: "we just kind of figured out the math 2 weeks before the deadline for NeurIPS." Good to know that no matter who you are, genius can strike at the last minute!!" scalevp.com/insights/new-ide…

What All VC Operating Teams Can Learn From the @scalevp GTM Summit inrevenue.capital/insights/w…

Cybersecurity 2024 scalevp.com/insights/cyberse… Late in reading this but just got through our 11th security survey It's the range of threats that I find most daunting. Lots of ways to get it wrong for CISO's and thus a huge continued need for innovation @scalevp @atseitlin

Given yesterday's SaaS Apocalypse I feel good about this post from 2019. Summary, (from 2019) SaaS growth will slow, markets will consolidate and the best survival strategy is move to AI. scalevp.com/insights/investi…