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Uber and Google Ventures. U.S. VCs boost international deal sizes. Corporates get busy.


Our computer overlords are here

Hi there,

Bloomberg's Jack Clark goes deep on artificial intelligence in this article published today entitled "I'll Be Back: The Return of Artificial Intelligence". On a weekly basis, we see some awesome combinations of our data with great writing and this is one example.

The data shows this is a real trend and the Bloomberg team gives context to the data by talking to the likes of Vinod Khosla as well as folks at American Express and a host of AI startups ranging from Sentient to Clarifai to Scaled Inference. It's worth a read.

This is the remix

Amish Jani (@amishjani), founder and Managing Director, of FirstMark Capital in NY used our data to dive into investments by Alibaba, Google and Amazon.

Any post with a Game of Thrones reference is worth reading.

Also, Shai Goldman (@shaig) of Silicon Valley Bank did a roundup of $10 million+ rounds in NYC on his blog from January 2015. Here's the list.

If you're blogging and referencing our data in your posts, let me know via email or ping us on Twitter @cbinsights so we can highlight it in the newsletter (now 62k subscribers).


Corporate VCs - ignore at your peril

Corporate VCs are dumb money. Ha ha. They don't know what they're doing. Ha ha. Oh look, I'm stuck saying the same garbage people were saying in 2000.

It's time to stop with the old memes about corporate VCs.

As our 2014 corporate VC report highlights, corporate VCs are a major force in venture. They're part of almost 1 of 5 VC deals and if you need a big check, they are where you look.

Thanks,
Anand

@asanwal

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The Blurb

A curated mix of articles on tech, media, what's next and recent news.

Why photos of some hedge funders are so hard to find. Some hedge fund managers like Tiger Global's Chase Coleman and MHR's Mark Rachesky have eluded public photos for years. And photographers have been offered lots of money to keep it that way.
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Elon Musk buying a McLaren F1. Back in 1999 after selling his first company, Elon Musk bought a $1M McLaren F1. This documentary cut of the car being delivered to Musk harkens back to the heady dot-com days.
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The definitive oral history of Chipotle. Today, Chipotle is a $22B burrito empire. But it wasn't always that way. Bloomberg goes long-form on the entrepreneurial story of Chipotle with some crafty visuals to boot.
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How to find fulfilling work. Sean Rose has worked at two of enterprise tech's darlings - Box and Slack. Here he gives his algorithm for framing job satisfaction.
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