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Steve Brotman is the founder and managing partner of Alpha Partners

Corporate Venture Capital Is Splitting In Two

By Steve Brotman Last month, PayPal confirmed its wind down of PayPal Ventures, the corporate venture arm it launched in 2016 and grew to more than $850 million across three funds. The company hired Jefferies to explore selling portfolio stakes on the secondary market, putting positions in companies such as Plaid and Anchorage Digital in […]

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The model is the engine

The New Software Lifecycle

The following article originally appeared on Addy Osmani’s blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. I cowrote a Google whitepaper about how AI is changing the software lifecycle. I’m not going to summarize the whole thing. Instead, here are the handful of ideas in it I think actually matter, plus six figures

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China’s economic growth slows to weakest pace in over three years

Economic reports on Wednesday found that Chinese growth has sunk to the slowest pace in over three years. Despite benefitting from the global AI boom, the country has not managed to offset the slump due to a struggling property sector, drop in domestic spending and trade disruptions caused by the war in Iran. 

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