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OpenAI Search Leader Departs After Less Than a Year Shivakumar Venkataraman, a longtime Google search advertising executive who joined OpenAI earlier this year to help lead the development of search and artificial intelligence for enterprise customers,...

Former Google search ads exec, who joined OpenAI earlier this year to lead development of search and AI for enterprise, has left the co.

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The Venture Capitalists Set to Win Big in 2025 For three years, venture capitalists struggled to return cash to their investors. In 2025, many believe the dam is about to break. With more than a dozen tech startups on track to list publicly next y...

New: The VC firms set to win big next year, based on expected returns, previously undisclosed ownership numbers and more

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Pitch for the check you want Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Tech’s guiding principles these days aren’t too difficult to find: discipline, focus and cash conservation. But I’ve always found those same focuses to be especially in conflict with […]

New from over the weekend, I cover how pitches have changed to be more monetization, less messiah focused

https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/29/pitch-for-the-check-you-want/

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