Tech-Bros bieten KI-Genies 💸 astronomische Gehälter, um beim Milliarden-Poker im Silicon Valley mitzuhalten. Der Wettbewerb um Talente ist härter denn je! 🚀🤖 #KI #Tech #Gehalt #SiliconValley Mehr dazu im Artikel: https://www.n-tv.de/wirtschaft/Tech-Bros-koedern-KI-Genies-mit-astronomischen-Gehaeltern-article25904092.html
Ich glaub dass ist alles nur heiße Luft. 🤷
J'ai accompagné des entreprises en création et des startups depuis les années 2000, d'abord via HEC Entrepreneurs, puis sur le continent africain depuis que j'y suis installé. Je continue à proposer coaching ou mentoring à ce jour.
Voici quelques conseils utiles pour tous ceux qui pensent investir, ainsi que mes remarques sur les VCs dans les startups "Web3" ces dernières années.
Optimism goggles
https://mastodon.social/@czeins/114739403773350112
This was such a boneheaded marketing decision on Apple’s part. They cost themselves way more in goodwill and trust than they possibly could have earned in additional F1 The Movie — wait, sorry, my bad, F1® The Movie — box office ticket sales. It’s like Apple got paid to exemplify Cory Doctorow’s “enshittification” theory. Apple Wallet doesn’t present itself as a marketing vehicle. It presents itself as a privacy-protecting system service.
Daring Fireball: Apple Wallet Sends Push Notification Ad Pushing ‘F1 The Movie’
Apple’s been making some questionable decisions these days. That said, here’s one counterpoint – the US has about 52MM F1 fans, with fandom surging in popularity. Netflix’s Drive to Survive is incredibly popular and thrives on Netflix marketing it to oblivion. US has about 155MM iPhone users.
You can see how someone at Apple could have made a compelling argument to suggest this was a good plan. Here’s how it might have gone:
There are 155MM iphone users in US and it’s our largest Wallet market as well. With F1 fandom surging, imagine how thrilled users might be when we present them an opportunity to save money on F1 tickets just by using their Wallet. Wallet is the best way to pay for things online and offline and majority of these tickets will be purchased on fandango anyway. Win/Win/Win 💰 especially as it’s critical we need F1 the Movie to do well the first week on the box office.
Now, the truth is that it didn’t end up that way at all. I am confident that Wallet, Apple or F1 didn’t think that this will bomb and erode their hard earned brand value. I think this is because of optimism goggles that most of Silicon Valley puts on most of the time. Honestly, it’s not a bad thing. It’s almost why “making mistakes” is also a logical corollary to this mode. Apple’s just not made that many mistakes in such a long time that many of us fans thought they were above it all. I personally accept these last few months of faux-pas as nothing but a correction to the normal.
#apple #f1 #formula1 #optimismGoggles #siliconValley #tech #wallet
Dodging the Dot-Com Bust - Mamoon Hamid on Uncapped
Intel Layoffs Exceed 5,000 Across US - proving they can still double something! 📈➡️📉
WARN filings show Intel more than doubled their layoff estimates in CA alone. When your workforce reduction strategy is more efficient than your chip manufacturing... 🤔
https://slashdot.org/story/25/07/16/2246205/intel-layoffs-exceed-5000-across-us
This is the Silicon Valley “startup” model. Startups are not long-term sustainable businesses or small businesses. A startup is a temporary business designed to either grow exponentially and exit (sell) or to fail fast.
Hab mir die Doku "#Trump und das #SiliconValley - Staatsstreich der Tech-Milliardäre" angeschaut. Und das solltet ihr auch tun.
⚠️ Aber Achtung: das ist tatsächlich gruseliger als jeder Horrorfilm.
#USA #Demokratie #Autokratie #Revolution #Musk #Thiel #Zuckerberg #Vance #Ethik #KI
https://www.zdf.de/video/dokus/zdfzeit-106/trump-und-das-silicon-valley-100
“Move fast and break things.”
The things:
- Human rights
- Our habitat
- Democracy
#BigTech #SiliconValley #ventureCapital https://mastodon.social/@freakonometrics/114860155869573459
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/15/trump-ai-oil-energy-summit
#SiliconValley joins hands with #fossilfuel and #ai is the new excuse. Anyway #oil #oligarchy has been funding the valley via the likes of Softbank and/or directly. #Putin uses the valley products such as social media to subvert #democracy
Hard to see anything good about the valley any more
Route Fifty: Louisiana becomes third state to pass app store accountability law. “Louisiana became the latest state to pass what it described as an ‘app store accountability’ law, joining Texas and Utah in instituting such legislation. Gov. Jeff Landry signed a bill in late June mandating that app stores that operate in the state — including those run by Apple and Google — must identify […]
Tom’s Hardware: AI is eating up Pennsylvania’s power, governor threatens to pull state from the grid — new plants aren’t being built fast enough to keep up with demand. “Artificial intelligence and the hardware that powers it, is at the heart of a fallout in Pennsylvania, where electricity prices have risen dramatically for wholesalers and consumers due to surging demand.”
Gizmodo: As Zuck Races to Build Godlike AI, Women and People of Color Aren’t Invited. “Of the 18 names confirmed so far by Zuckerberg in a memo and by media reports, just one is a woman. There are no Black or Latino researchers on the list. Most of the team members are men who attended elite schools and worked at top Silicon Valley firms. Many are of Asian descent—a reflection of the […]
From Midwest to Tech Hype - Mamoon Hamid on Uncapped
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#SiliconValley seems to have finally wised up to the fact that trying to lure consumers through actual good products is for losers.
#democracy #humanrights #development #oligarchy #billionaires
xAI announces $200m US militar...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/14/us-military-xai-deal-elon-musk
#SiliconValley seems to have finally wised up to the fact that trying to lure consumers through actual good products is for losers. They now have only two ideas - force-feed consumers to rip them off directly and sign ginormous contracts with governments to rip off taxpayers (aka consumers).
#democracy #humanrights #development #oligarchy #billionaires
Marc Andreessen Is a Traitor
It is the tech oligarchs, not young radicals, who have turned against the system that made them.
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/marc-andreessen-is-a-traitor/
"Andreessen and the tech reactionaries were not betrayed by 'American-hating communists' backed by the 'Democratic machine;' they simply could not be content to be merely rich."