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Seed to Early Series A B2B Founders - Founder-Led Sales Handoff

Sachin Kansal at Uber has a rule about "dogfooding": you do not get to fix the product until you sit in the customer's seat and feel the friction yourself. Before I scale groundwork., I am applying that exact rule to my own business. Most B2B founders I talk to are trapped in the same loop. The product works. Customers are signing. But every deal still runs through them. They know it cannot stay that way. What is less clear is how to hand it off without watching pipeline stall out. That stretch is my zone of genuis. I ran sales and account management teams at Uber Eats, then built GTM at startups where none of it existed yet. But I do not want to build groundwork. on assumptions about your business. So I am running an interview series called The Handoff. I am sitting down with B2B founders to dig into what it actually takes to move past founder-led sales. What you tried, what you paid for, what stuck, and what did not. Here is what to expect: • A 25-minute Zoom where I ask questions and you talk. • No pitch. I am not there to diagnose your business or hand you an unsolicited roadmap. If you want my take, ask and you will get it. • Private notes. I record only so I can listen instead of typing. The recording stays with me. • Your call. Nothing gets shared without your OK, named or anonymous. • The Handoff Report. When the series wraps, you get the full breakdown of what every founder tried, what it cost, what worked, and what the ones who made it through did differently. Most founders figure this out in a silo. The report is a chance to see how your peers are navigating the exact same ceiling. I am looking to speak with: • B2B founders (seed to early Series A) still closing most deals themselves • Founders whose first sales hire did not go the way they hoped • Founders who successfully made the transition and can share how If that is you, drop a comment or send me a DM. If someone comes to mind, I would love the intro.

European Defence Industry Experts - Experts View Contributions

🚀 Call for Authors: Looking for experts for joint publications on the European defence ecosystem I recently launched theMOON., an independent intelligence platform for European defence. 📚 One of the main parts of the platform is its Knowledge Base, which I am now expanding with the new category "Experts View". 🎯I would like to invite professionals from the industry, working with: 🔹 European defence programmes; 🔹 Dual-use technologies; 🔹 Industrial cooperation; 🔹 Procurement and market entry; 🔹 Investment and funding; 🔹 Consortium building, etc. 🔹 Defence innovation and scaling. 🧩 Possible formats include: 💬 Expert Perspectives - your view on a specific industry, technology, policy or ecosystem topic. 🏆 Success Stories - real cases, lessons and experience from projects, companies and teams. 🤝 Joint Analysis - a co-authored material combining your expertise with research and analysis from theMOON. ⚙️ How It Works - practical explanations of programmes, technologies, procurement, partnerships or other parts of the defence ecosystem. 📝 The format is flexible. You can bring an idea, case or area of expertise, and we can shape the material together. ❗Contributions are voluntary and unpaid.❗ 🌐 Instead, published contributors receive full author attribution, visibility through theMOON. and promotion through my professional network. 📩 If you are interested, send me a DM. And if someone from your network comes to mind who should be part of this, I would be very grateful for an introduction. https://lnkd.in/dz7itX9p #theMOON #EuropeanDefence #EUDefence #DefenceIndustry #DefenceTech #DefenceInnovation #DualUse #DefenceEcosystem #DefenceSME #SMEs #Startups #EuropeanUnion #EuropeanCommission #EUUkraine #UkraineDefence #DefenceCooperation #IndustrialCooperation #DefenceProcurement #MarketEntry #DefenceInvestment #EUFunding #ConsortiumBuilding #DefenceScaling #KnowledgeSharing #ExpertCommunity

Founders & CEOs - Professional Biography & Personal Brand Feature

Want to Get Featured on SEOWEBFIRM Your professional journey, company, product or innovation deserves more than a post that disappears from the feed after a few days. At SeoWebFirm.com, we publish in-depth features that help people and businesses strengthen their visibility, credibility and digital presence. We’re currently accepting feature inquiries from: 👤 Founders & CEOs 📣 Digital Marketers 🎥 Content Creators 💼 Personal Branding & Social Media Experts 🎓 Industry Experts & Professionals 🏢 Companies & Startups 📦 Products & Services 🤖 AI Tools, SaaS & Software Platforms 👤 Professional Biography Features We transform your professional journey into an engaging, in-depth biography covering your: → Background & career journey → Challenges and success story → Expertise & achievements → Business or professional impact → Vision, philosophy & future goals We’ve already featured 100+ inspiring professional journeys, including founders, entrepreneurs, marketers and internationally recognized industry experts. And there’s something particularly exciting: Google AI has referenced several biographies published on SEOWEBFIRM That means some of the stories published on our platform have gone beyond traditional search visibility and have been surfaced as sources in Google's AI experiences. 🏢 Company, Product & AI Tool Features SeoWebFirm isn't limited to personal biographies. Through our Reviews & Insights section, we also feature: → Companies & startups → Products & services → SaaS & software platforms → AI tools → Innovative businesses and solutions We can tell the story behind your business, explain what you offer, showcase your differentiators and introduce your product or service to a wider professional audience. Why SeoWebFirm? Beyond the website, I’ve built a professional LinkedIn network with 26K+ followers and received 60+ LinkedIn recommendations from professionals I've connected and worked with. Selected SeoWebFirm features can also be shared with my LinkedIn audience, creating another opportunity for professional visibility. Our objective is simple: Tell meaningful stories. Build credibility. Increase visibility. Create long-term digital presence. If you're a Founder, CEO, Creator, Expert, Startup, SaaS company or AI tool and would like to explore being featured on SeoWebFirm, I'd love to hear from you. 📩 Feature & Partnership Inquiries: [email redacted] 🌐 SeoWebFirm.com — Stories That Inspire Know a person, company or product that deserves more visibility? Tag them in the comments. 👇 #SeoWebFirm #PersonalBranding #FounderStories #Entrepreneurs #DigitalMarketing #Startups #AITools

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Physicists & Founders in Global South & Asia - New Physics Tech

⭐CALL FOR PHYSICISTS, SCIENTISTS & DEEP-TECH FOUNDERS⭐ Are you a physicist, scientist, researcher, engineer, lab head, department lead, or founder working on something new in the field of physics across the Global South and Asia? I’m looking to hear from people across South Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, Central Asia, and East Asia who are: I'm particularly keen to hear about: 🤝New technologies, custom instrumentation, or experimental methods 🤝Breakthroughs or non-traditional research across any subfield of physics 🤝Early-stage startups spun out of physics or advanced engineering research 🤝New laboratories, regional facilities, or collaborative research centres Initiatives reshaping how physics is taught, applied, or funded in your region. 🤝Building commercial ventures on novel physics or materials science 🤝 Designing new experimental instruments or facilities 🤝 Establishing new regional research programs or national initiatives 🤝Tackling foundational problems unique to your region’s scientific landscape I’m particularly interested in developments that aren’t getting much international attention yet. If you are working on a project the broader scientific community should know about—or know someone who is—drop a comment below or send me a direct message. I’ll gladly share my email so we can connect. Feel free to repost or tag colleagues whose work deserves the spotlight. #Physics #PhysicsResearch #Physicists #Science #ScientificResearch #PhysicsInnovation #ScienceInnovation #Research #STEM #QuantumPhysics #Astrophysics #ParticlePhysics #CondensedMatter #NuclearPhysics #PlasmaPhysics #Optics #Photonics #Biophysics #MaterialsScience #Engineering #SouthAsia #SoutheastAsia #Africa #CentralAsia #EastAsia #GlobalScience #ScienceCommunication #Freelancer #FreelanceJournalist #ScienceJournalism #ScienceWriter

TravelTech Founders - Distribution, Traction & Fundability

Early stage startups don't know distribution. They know their product. They know the problem. Give a founder an hour and they'll walk you through every broken step in the workflow they're fixing. Ask how the market is supposed to find out. The answer gets thin. They build for a year and launch to their own contact list. They post once and wait. They pitch investors who have never heard their name, then call it a tough funding climate. I've watched good products lose to worse ones with better reach. That's not a product problem. The coverage exists. Most of it is media. I come at it from the other side of the table. I ran an agency, so I know whether a tool survives a real Monday or just demos well. I lost a company, so I know the difference between traction and activity. I trained with VCs, so I know when a good business is being pushed to raise money it shouldn't. Most coverage asks whether a company is interesting. I'm asking whether it works, whether it lasts, and whether it deserves capital. And when a founder clears all three, I don't just write about them. I introduce them. I work with them. So that's where @The Ticket by VENTUREA is going. https://lnkd.in/gURDptwx The founders building in Travel, Tourism, and Hospitality. What problem they saw. Why it matters. How they're going about fixing it. Alongside the trends actually moving this industry, including how AI is changing the way trips get planned and sold. If you invest, this is where you see what's being built before it's obvious. If you operate, this is where you see what's coming for your business. If you're building, this is where your work gets read by both. I'm interested in the technology that amplifies the impact of Travel, Tourism, and Hospitality. The problems worth solving. The startups going after them. Where this industry is heading. That's the whole reason this exists. One newsletter is not a distribution strategy. But it's a start, and most of these founders don't have one. Building something in travel? Send me a message. I want to hear about it. Subscribe below. See you in the next issue. #TravelTech #HospitalityTech #SoutheastAsia #Venturea #VentureCapital

Foreign Founders in Seoul - Govt & Chaebol-Backed Startup Hubs

안녕하세요, 여러분! 지난주 서울에 다녀왔습니다 🇰🇷 서울에서 따뜻하게 맞아주신 여러분께 진심으로 감사드립니다. Aug 30 – Sep 2. A private trip rather than a startup event, but two introductions opened up Seoul's startup hubs: Cenk Baladura, who I met last year through Erdinc, and Byungwoo (최병우), from Venture Cafe Tokyo. I also caught up with Hyunwoong Kim of Airbus Ventures, first met at an Antler event two years ago and again at SusHi Tech last year. And I got to see KiSeong Kim and Heeseok Yang of Sungkyunkwan University, who both came to SusHi Tech this year. KiSeong is building in eldercare × gig work; Heeseok just started his first job in Hiroshima last week. The best memories come from meeting people and meeting them again. A few notes on the places: ■ Yeoksam, the startup district Yeoksamdong Entrepreneur Street, near Gangnam. Public and private hubs cluster here — everyone knows it as Seoul's startup street. ■ Global Startup Center (GSC) — a government hub for foreign founders In TIPS Town, home to many foreign startups. Think of it as Seoul's TiB: jointly run by the Ministry of Ministry of SMEs and Startups, Republic of Korea, 대한민국 중소벤처기업부s and @Startups (MSS) and KISED, free for foreign nationals. Some staff had even visited TiB. Very similar in character, though GSC is foreigners-only. ■ MARU180 / MARU360 — private hubs backed by a chaebol foundation On the same street. The Asan Nanum Foundation behind them was set up in 2011, ten years after the death of Hyundai founder Chung Ju-yung. MARU180 opened in 2014, MARU360 in 2021. They offer selective office space, investor networking and founder programs — Seoul's version of CIC or Shibuya Bridge. ■ Who was Chung Ju-yung? Born to a poor farming family in 1915, he built Hyundai in a single generation and was central to the "Miracle on the Han River." Whenever people said something was impossible, his answer was: "Have you even tried it?" That spirit still runs underneath Korean innovation today. ■ Two things that impressed me First, the central government leads on startup support, with many programs open to domestic and foreign founders alike. Second, many facilities are run by chaebol-rooted foundations — MARU isn't run by Hyundai Group itself, but by a foundation carrying on its founder's legacy. In Japan, central government and big-corporate support (CVCs, METI's J-Startup) plays a smaller role, while local governments like Tokyo and Fukuoka and foreign players like CIC and Plug and Play fill the gap. The numbers point the same way: Japan about 25,000 startups and 8 unicorns; Korea around 31,000 and 13 (METI; KCCI / CB Insights). The central government waving the flag, chaebol-rooted capital underneath — that two-layer structure drives Korea's startup ecosystem. Next time I'd love to go back and cover a big event like NextRise Seoul. If you know the scene, I'd love to hear from you. 또 뵙겠습니다! 한국 🇰🇷과 일본 🇯🇵을 잇는 글로벌 스타트업 생태계, 우리 같이 만들어 봐요!! #서울 #스타트업 #ソウル #スタートアップ #韓国 #seoul #startupecosystem

Early-Stage Founders - Summit Bias & Premature Scaling

What if the biggest risks in entrepreneurship are not external—but mental? I’m working on an article about four mental traps that can quietly shape how entrepreneurs see their ventures—and, ultimately, the decisions they make. One of them is what I call the Everest Summit Syndrome. Imagine an inexperienced mountaineer who believes the goal of an Everest expedition is simply to reach the summit. The summit is visible. It is measurable. It is celebrated. But experienced climbers know something different: Reaching the summit is not the end of the expedition. The descent remains. Entrepreneurship has its own version of this trap. We often treat product launch as the summit: the website goes live, the app is released, the first customers arrive, investors celebrate, and the venture finally feels "real." But launching proves that you can enter the market. It doesn't prove that you can survive there. After the launch comes customer acquisition, retention, consistent delivery, cash management, competition, hiring, processes, operational complexity—and eventually, the challenge of scaling. In other words: The summit is a milestone. The mission is completing the expedition. And this raises a question that goes well beyond product launches: 👉 What other mental traps might cause entrepreneurs to confuse a milestone with the real mission? I'm exploring four of them in my upcoming article: Certainty → Product Bias → Summit Bias → Hero Bias Each one can distort how entrepreneurs understand the venture's trajectory—and what the organization needs for the journey ahead. I'd love to hear your perspective: What entrepreneurial "mental trap" have you seen—or experienced—that can lead founders to celebrate too early or prepare for the wrong challenge? #Entrepreneurship #EntrepreneurialMindset #Startups #Scaling #Leadership #Innovation #VentureBuilding #BusinessGrowth

Pakistani Fintech Founders - Licensing & Regulatory Journeys

Pakistan’s fintech moment is here. We’re documenting it — and we need your help. We’re building a book on Pakistan’s financial services transformation — and we want to get the story right. This is a pivotal moment. Pakistan has enacted the Virtual Assets Act, 2026, establishing PVARA as the country’s dedicated virtual assets regulator. The State Bank has opened formal banking to licensed virtual asset service providers, overriding an eight-year ban. Raqami Islamic Digital Bank has received Pakistan’s first Digital Retail Banking Licence for a fully Shariah-compliant digital bank. The SECP is advancing a proposed Venture Capital Act to improve access to funding for startups. And PVARA is exploring regulated stablecoins for remittances, with potential savings of around $400 million annually. In short: Pakistan’s financial services sector is being rewritten in real time. We want to capture this transformation — not just the headlines, but the stories, the regulatory battles, the compliance nightmares, the due diligence deep-dives, and the founder journeys that make it all happen. That’s why we’re looking to speak with: 🏦 Fintech Founders — EMI operators, digital banks, and neobanks who’ve navigated the licensing maze. ⚖️ In-house Counsels at traditional banks — the people managing compliance, Shariah governance, and regulatory risk on the ground. 💼 VC Partners — especially those focused on regulatory due diligence in Pakistan’s evolving fintech landscape. 🏛️ Current or Former SBP/SECP Regulators — mid-to-senior level, who’ve shaped or enforced the rules. 📊 External Auditors — specialising in financial services, who’ve seen the books and the risks up close. Every voice will shape a book that aims to be the definitive record of this moment. If you fit any of these profiles — or know someone who does — I’d love to chat. Drop me a DM or tag them in the comments. Let’s document this transformation together. 📖🇵🇰 #FintechPakistan #Regulation #DigitalBanking #VentureCapital #SBP #SECP #PVARA #FinancialServices #BookProject

Founders & Fraud Experts in UK & Europe - Investor Impersonation Scams

I almost wired money to a fake investor. A Swiss fund that did not exist. A partner whose identity had been stolen from a real family. A meeting in Italy. Documents that looked perfect. I walked away in time. Many founders do not. Since then I have learned this is not a rare accident. It is a repeatable playbook, and it is running right now across Europe: fake family offices, cloned VC websites, fabricated soft commitments, "processing fees", and crypto "commissions" demanded before a wire that never arrives. Founders have lost 200,000 pounds. Some have lost 4 million dollars. Almost nobody talks about it, because being defrauded feels like a confession of stupidity. It is not. These people are professionals, and they target you precisely when you need the money most. So I am making an episode of the Imperfect CEO Talks podcast about it, and I am looking for people to speak with. I would like to hear from you if (Based anywhere in Europe or the UK) → you were approached, defrauded, or nearly defrauded by someone posing as an investor, a fund, or a family office → you paid an upfront fee for "access to investors" and got nothing → you work in fraud investigation, financial crime law, compliance, or recovery and can explain how the mechanism actually works → you are an investor willing to describe what a legitimate process looks like, so founders have something to compare against How this works: You can appear on record, under a first name only, or fully anonymous with your voice altered. You can also be my guest with full disclosure. You approve everything before it goes out. We name no living person as a criminal, and we do not need the identity of whoever targeted you in order to have this conversation. Nothing gets published that you have not seen. DM me here or write to [email redacted]. And if you are reading this thinking "this happened to me and I have never told anyone", that is exactly the reason I am making this episode. #founders #fundraising #startups #fraud #venturecapital #ImperfectCEO

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Chile AI Security & Governance Experts - National AI Guide

🇺🇸 The challenge of AI is no longer simply adopting it. It is governing it when it starts to decide, recommend, and act. And that challenge cannot be addressed by a single organization, discipline, or country. From the AI Security & Governance Commission of the Chilean Chamber of Artificial Intelligence (CCHIA), together with its 36 members, we are developing the AI Governance & Security Guide for Chile. And we want to bring into this process the perspectives of experts from Chile and around the world. 🌎 Why open this conversation? Because a guide that aims to become a meaningful reference must connect operational experience, research, regulation, security, and industry expertise. We want to hear from those who are currently: → Implementing AI across large organizations and startups → Protecting systems, data, and critical infrastructure → Shaping public policy and regulation → Conducting research at universities and academic institutions → Assessing legal, ethical, and societal risks → Auditing automated systems → Building AI models, platforms, and agents → Making decisions across boards, technology, risk, compliance, data, and cybersecurity We do not want this guide to remain at the level of principles alone. We want it to help answer questions that are already reaching boards, CISOs, developers, auditors, and regulators: ❓ Who is accountable when an automated system makes the wrong decision? ❓ What controls should be in place before AI goes into production? ❓ How should we govern AI agents capable of taking actions across real-world systems? ❓ What evidence should a board, regulator, or auditor require? ❓ How do we protect data, people, and organizations without slowing innovation? Our ambition is clear: Chile should not only stand out for adopting Artificial Intelligence. It should also be able to demonstrate that the AI it uses is secure, governable, and auditable. And we believe that a national reference of this nature must be built by listening to diverse voices. If you work in AI, AI Security, cybersecurity, data governance, privacy, regulation, compliance, audit, risk, ethics, public policy, academia, infrastructure, model development, or agentic AI systems, whether in Chile or anywhere in the world: we want to hear your perspective. 👉 Comment “GUIDE” or send me a DM to participate in the collaboration and review process. 🔁 And if you know someone whose expertise should be represented in this conversation, share this post or tag them in the comments. We do not want to build a guide simply to talk about the future of AI. We want to build a guide that is useful for those already facing it. 🇨🇱

Women Physician Leaders - Startup Clinician Podcast - Early Hires

The speaker application form on The Early Hires website is getting busier every week. I am genuinely excited about that. And I read every single submission. A good number of them come from people who want to speak to clinicians. Products, platforms, pitches. Some of it is thoughtful work. All of it gets vetted closely, because I made a commitment when I started this podcast: my clinical colleagues stay front and center. Their work. Their careers. Their leadership. That is the show, and I am protective of it. Some guests who are not clinicians do earn the seat. Coaches, operators, and experts whose work helps clinicians advance and lead inside startups. In every case, it is work I know firsthand. If you are building something clinicians should know about, there may be a better fit than the guest chair. More on that soon. The submissions that make my week come from clinicians themselves. The NP, PA, and MD leaders who have joined me so far have set a high bar, and I want to keep raising it. If you are a clinician leading inside a startup, I want to hear from you. A few voices I am especially hoping to bring to the mic: -Women physician leaders. -Pharmacists. -Mental health and psych clinical leaders. -Dentists. The fall lineup is already one I am proud of. There is room for more. Apply to speak here: https://lnkd.in/ejXFxQue If you know a clinician leader who should be on the show, send this to them. #theearlyhires #podcastguest #startupleader #startupclinician #clinicalleader

Facility Managers - $0 SharePoint Work Order System - Scrappy FM

Are you scrappy? Every Facility Management (FM) conference or meeting I've attended, I've noticed the same thing: facility managers (FMs) are being sold something. I have worked for all types of organizations, from Fortune 500 manufacturing companies to startups and mom-and-pop operations. Some have large FM budgets. Some have small ones. One of the smaller ones gave me a clear example of what scrappy actually looks like. In that smaller role, I sat through a vendor pitch for a CMMS platform that would have cost my organization five figures each year. The organization needed a work order system because we were relying on email requests when I started in the role. What they had was SharePoint, already paid for, already approved by IT. It took an afternoon to build a working intake form, a status tracker log and an automated notification workflow inside it — no purchase order required. That's not an argument against vendors. Some problems genuinely need a platform built for scale. Most of the time, the answer is already inside the walls of the organization that's asking for it. Smaller organizations feel this hardest. They have a facility manager, many times just one, and rarely a budget that supports the tools that job actually requires. Because the tools were never there, the systems and processes to manage the facility were never built either. I'm not sure where I heard it first, but "you don't know what you don't know" has stuck with me throughout my career. Managing a facility well only works when you have the data to understand how it's performing — and that data comes from a work order system, a preventive maintenance program, an inventory of spare parts, and a way to maintain that inventory. Without those four in some form, there's nothing to manage against. The following principles have been my starting point for FM roles, especially when my organization was resource constrained: - Use what you have before you buy what you want - Know exactly where the free tool stops working - Spend the budget where it moves the needle, not where it's easiest to spend I'm calling this Scrappy FM. Real, specific ways to build those four systems with tools you already own — SharePoint, Excel, Power Automate — and increasingly, with AI doing the heavy lifting on top of them. Along with an honest account of where those tools hit their ceiling and it's time to buy the real thing. First post: how to build that same $0 work order system in SharePoint in one afternoon. The exact steps. But this isn't meant to stay one-way. I want it to grow into a place where we trade scrappy stories, tricks and fixes with each other — a series I hope grows organically, built as much by the FMs reading it as by me. If you've built something out of what you had instead of what you wished you had, I want to hear about it. Not every FM has a five-figure budget for the bells and whistles. Every FM has the tools to start anyway. #FacilityManagement #IFMA #ScrappyFM #FM

Hackathon Participants - Undelivered Prizes & Unfair Practices

Day 95 - Hackathon community: if you’ve been burned, this is your chance to speak. I came to San Francisco 3 months ago to explore startups. Hackathons quickly became my training ground. I’ve won 10+. I’ve lost 10+. And losing has never bothered me. Every time I lose, I ask what I could have done better, learn, and come back stronger. I try to talk with all the judges unless the reason is very clear to me. But recently, I started hearing stories from builders that felt different. Prizes not delivered. Credits promised but never received. Rules changing. People being told “next week” again and again until they eventually give up. A huge part of the hackathon community is students and people looking for jobs, internships, and opportunities. I was that international student 10 years ago. I know how hard it is to speak up when you feel like the person on the other side controls opportunities you may need. And if we stay silent, it will keep happening. So I’m asking the hackathon community for help. If you attended a hackathon and were promised a prize, credits, or something else that was never delivered — or if something happened that you genuinely believe was unfair — DM me. I don’t want rumors. Bring screenshots. Bring messages. Bring the event page. Bring evidence. For the next 48 hours, I want to hear your stories. I’m not naming anyone right now. First, I want to understand whether these are isolated incidents or whether there is actually a pattern. If there is no pattern, I’ll say that too. But if there is one, we should make sure the people responsible are held accountable so the next student doesn’t have to stay quiet. Hackathons should be a training ground for the next generation of builders. Not a place where builders are taken advantage of. If this resonates with you, please comment or repost so it reaches the people who need to see it. I look forward to your support ! Best regards, Ali - a random dude in a town.

Founders & Employees at AI Startups - Post-IPO Philanthropy Plans

Everyone's watching the SpaceX/Anthropic/OpenAI IPOs and the wealth they're about to create. NYT DealBook covered it a few days ago; there's real speculation over just how much of this could flow into philanthropy. Timely for me. I'm working on a piece right now about founders and what to do with exit money around philanthropy when a liquidity event hits. Here's what I think matters most for nonprofits right now: Look at who's already in your network, on your board, or in your donor base with ties to these companies. Relationships build over time, not in the weeks after a liquidity event. A few things worth thinking through: → We're going to see a rise in Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs) as an entry point. I'd expect that. → This is a pivotal moment, and not just because of the size of the money. Anthropic and OpenAI are AI companies, and the same technology creating this wealth is going to reshape how philanthropy itself operates: how gifts get sourced, how due diligence gets done, how organizations identify and steward donors. Watching how these founders and employees choose to give may be an early signal of how AI transforms the sector, not just funds it. → Many of these donors will also be earlier in their careers than the ones most gift officers are trained for. That changes the playbook in terms of how we look at generational wealth. The nonprofits and consultants who treat this as a chance to cultivate real, long-standing relationships, not a mailing list update, are the ones who'll still be in the room when the money actually moves. Who's building for this right now? Article linked in the comments

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Indian Talent Acquisition Leaders - Biggest Hiring Pain Point

I spent five years placing C-suite executives before I wrote a single word about AI. In that decade, I sat across from maybe two hundred hiring managers. Different industries, different cities, wildly different budgets. They all asked me the same two questions. "How do I find better candidates faster?" And then, quieter, usually near the end of the conversation: "How do I stop losing the good ones?" Nobody ever asked me which software to buy. That gap is what I keep thinking about now. Because the AI conversation in Indian hiring has become almost entirely about tools — which platform, which integration, which vendor. And the actual questions people have are about outcomes they can't get to. Here's what I've come to believe after building automation workflows for Indian HR teams this year: The teams getting real results aren't the ones with the biggest stack. They're the ones who picked one broken thing and fixed it properly. Not JD writing and screening and sourcing and onboarding, all at once, in one quarter. One thing. Done well enough that people actually use it in month three. The ones who bought five tools in January are, almost without exception, back to doing it manually by June. The tools are still being paid for. Nobody opens them. I don't think that's a technology problem. I think it's a sequencing problem, and it's the least discussed thing in this entire category. If you run hiring for an Indian team — what's the one part of your process that's still genuinely broken? Not the one a vendor told you was broken. The one that actually costs you sleep. I'm asking because I'm writing about this next, and I'd rather write about what's real. #IndianStartups #TalentAcquisition #HRTech

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