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Elle est athlète olympique multi-médaillée.Mais aussi adjointe au maire et élue en charge de la santé à la Mairie du 18ème et Consultante en conduite du changement & transformation des organisations. Bref, Ayodole Ikuesan jongle entre ses différentes casquettes au quotidien. Et en 2022, après une pause de 5 ans dans sa carrière sportive, elle s'est lancé un défi : participer aux Jeux Olympiques de Paris en 2024.Et si l'on entend beaucoup de clichés ou d'inexactitudes quand on compare le sport de haut niveau et le monde de l'entreprise, j'ai profité de l'expérience d'Ayadele pour faire le point sur ce sujet. Alors dans cet épisode de Learning by Doing, elle nous raconte tout !Bonne écoute !À très vite,Prenez soin de vous !Plus d'info :Pour suivre Ayodele sur LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayodele-ikuesan-oly-4703a673/Pour recevoir gratuitement notre sélection hebdo de conseils pratiques pour animer votre équipe, rendez-vous ici : https://teambakery.com/nlEt n'oubliez pas de laisser 5 étoiles et un gentil commentaire sur Apple Podcast et Spotify si l'épisode vous a plu.TIMECODES00:00:00 - Introduction00:01:47 - Présentation d'Ayodele et de son parcours.00:04:40 - Quel parallèle entre le sport de haut niveau et le monde de l'entreprise ?00:08:43 - Quel volume d'entraînement faut-il pour réussir un record sportif ?00:11:51 - 5 choses qu'elle garde de sa carrière d'athlète.00:18:24 - Son envie de retourner aux JO à Paris en 2024.00:36:18 - Comment la reprise s'est-elle passée vis-à-vis de son employeur ?00:47:27 - Comment gérer son énergie ?
In this episode, we talk to Ifelade Ayodele, co-founder and CEO of Blaaiz, a cross-border payment and remittance company. We discuss Ife's journey from studying physics to working in finance and eventually founding Blaaiz. The conversation explores the challenges and opportunities in the African FinTech landscape, the impact of his experiences at Stanbic Bank, and the vision behind Blaaiz. Ife shares insights on the audacity of Nigerian entrepreneurs and the future outlook for African founders in raising capital. You can reach Ifelade at: - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ifelade-ayodele/ Show Notes & Resources (02:01) - Introducing Ifelade (11:00) - The Journey to Founding Blaaiz (22:18) - Navigating the African Fintech Landscape (31:25) - Advice for Aspiring African Entrepreneurs
This week, we're thrilled to be joined by the mastermind himself, Murewa Ayodele, writer of Marvel's newest Storm series! Together, we break down all the drama, power moves, and high-flying moments from issue #1, where Ororo Munroe's solo story takes center stage.Here's what's brewing in this stormy session:⚡ A Fashion Tempest: Ororo's wardrobe evolution isn't just stunning—it's a statement. Move over Cher! We take a look inside her better than Clueless closet.⚡ Nuclear Nightmares & Moral Quandaries: When a nuclear facility meltdown pulls Storm out of Atlanta's Sanctuary, she faces a decision that could reshape her role as a leader and protector.⚡ The Sanctuary Speaks: What exactly is this haven in Atlanta, and why is it so vital to Storm's mission to change the world?⚡ Sailor Moon Realness: Yes, there's a magical transformation sequence, and it deserves ALL the praise!And don't forget—X-Factor's Frenzy is back for a clash that shakes the pages!Join us as we celebrate Ororo's glorious solo return, with all the thunder, heart, and style that only Storm can deliver.Find us on the AIPT Podcast Network. Follow our show to be alerted when new episodes appear the first and third Wednesday of the month. Check us out on social media @xreadspodcast on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. For business inquiries, email xreadspodcast@gmail.com. Learn more at https://aiptcomics.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/x-reads-an-x-men-experience--3616281/support.
Tuesday 11/5 8 pm est on Twitch and the Play app.,we have the talented Murewa Ayodele (@ayodelemurewa)!! Murewa created a new booking on Blerd's Recipient of the (Lagos Comic Con 2023) FIST AWARD for WRITER OF THE DECADE, Murewa Ayodele is the writer of the Nommo-nominated comic book series, NEW MEN, the critically acclaimed webcomic series, MY GRANDFATHER WAS A GOD, the popular AKOGUN: BRUTALIZER OF GODS graphic novel, and several Marvel comics like MOON KNIGHT: BLACK WHITE & BLOOD, AVENGERS UNLIMITED INFINITY COMIC, I AM IRON MAN, and STORM. He is the co-founder of Collectible Comics NG, a Nigerian comic book studio founded with artist Dotun Akande that was nominated in the COMIC STUDIO OF THE YEAR category at the 2018 FIST AWARDS. Murewa has worked as a professional comic book writer for almost a decade with over 10 comic book titles under his belt. #blerdseyeview #blerd #xmen #stormTwitch: / blerdseyeview1 Youtube: / @blerdseyeview Facebook: / blerdseyeview1 X (Formally Twitter): / blerdseyeview1
Tuesday 11/5 8 pm est on Twitch and the Play app.,we have the talented Murewa Ayodele (@ayodelemurewa)!! Murewa created a new booking on Blerd's Recipient of the (Lagos Comic Con 2023) FIST AWARD for WRITER OF THE DECADE, Murewa Ayodele is the writer of the Nommo-nominated comic book series, NEW MEN, the critically acclaimed webcomic series, MY GRANDFATHER WAS A GOD, the popular AKOGUN: BRUTALIZER OF GODS graphic novel, and several Marvel comics like MOON KNIGHT: BLACK WHITE & BLOOD, AVENGERS UNLIMITED INFINITY COMIC, I AM IRON MAN, and STORM. He is the co-founder of Collectible Comics NG, a Nigerian comic book studio founded with artist Dotun Akande that was nominated in the COMIC STUDIO OF THE YEAR category at the 2018 FIST AWARDS. Murewa has worked as a professional comic book writer for almost a decade with over 10 comic book titles under his belt. #blerdseyeview #blerd #xmen #stormTwitch: / blerdseyeview1 Youtube: / @blerdseyeview Facebook: / blerdseyeview1 X (Formally Twitter): / blerdseyeview1
Adam and Khelan take a deep dive into the Mutant Mistress of the elements with brand new Storm writer, Murewa Ayodele. Murewa gives his secret origin how he came to love comics and how he became the writer of Ororo's solo adventures. The boys nerd out about just how powerful Storm is with a knife and why her new outfit is called "BRUTAL"!
Comic books are revolutionary and the standard for animating quality. They serve as an opportunity for minds to grow, explore and drive through charted and uncharted imaginary territories.Join us as we speak about Comic books, what gives them life and how the affect us as individuals and as youths looking to break into the animation space.
We're going transcontinental for this one, as we talk to Nigerian creator Murewa Ayodele about his upcoming book STORM! One of the most cinematic stories you'll ever hear, and it's not in a comic book - listen now! Intro Background How did you get into comics? (1:45) What is the Nigerian comic scene like? MK: BWB - hilarious short about “Egyptian stuff” - where'd you come up with the idea? (11:45) I Am Iron Man (18:55) Very cool conceit for the series - how much research did you do, and why did you pick the eras/stories that you chose? Damn you for making me cry with #3 right after laughing my ass off at Mojo DEXTER'S LAB REFERENCE IN #4 YOU ARE AMAZING Akogun: Brutalizer of Gods (28:02) One of the most badass titles I've ever heard in my life Yoruba mythology is fascinating - what inspired the combination of western ideas with African roots? Storm (34:24) How much of the recent X-stuff do you have to know about to pick this one up? Ororo is such a complex character - how do you decide knowing which parts of her to focus on? Favorite trait of hers? Favorite character flaw? (40:00) How are you honoring her Kenyan heritage? (46:52) Thoughts on some of the online discourse surrounding Ororo's home (50:38) One of the most iconic & fashionable characters in Marvel - how much effort is/was put into discussions & designs of her wardrobe? How far out in advance do you have stories mapped? Fan questions (57:29) Antoine Dodson, @worldofantoine, asks: Since they are working to heighten Storm's profile in the larger marvel universe again, could we see any crossover stories or events centering around Storm in the future? @butterflykyss asked: Ororo is slated in this run to be earth's protector which is pretty awesome. However, Gaia, I would presume, believes that title is more appropriate in describing her. Any chance the two will cross paths? Sorcerer Supreme, @mysticalme337, asks: Admittedly I've asked Mr. Ayodele this before, but if he had to have Ororo team up with Doc Strange, what dynamic would he have for them? Kimmi, @SeleneGallio616, asks: What has been the best part in imaging what Ororo's story after Krakoa would be? And what has been the biggest inspiration for her fashion sense? Ororo Munroe, @Storm54737952, asks: In relation to this image, can we associate that this spear is made of Light... not a simple light, but rather a light linked to the House of Ideas, the divine light, the Light of TOAA? after all, she will face Oblivion! Jug, @jugtbwjwsu, asks: Is there gonna be any chances of Storm seeing her Grandparents again? Sky Breaker, @dsolomon83, asks: Any armoring in the new suit? Bulletproofing, knife proofing, laser proofing etc. Anything else in the fire? Ending Plugs for social References: Mojo episode - Anthony (24:34) Apple Podcasts: here Google Play: here Stitcher: here TuneIn: here iHeartRadio: here Twitter Facebook Patreon TeePublic Discord
Ayodele Okundalaiye is a dynamic professional Master of Ceremony/Compere with a sense of humour - he is popularly known as the Senior Advocate of Comedy (SACO).As a Compere, he has consistently delivered outstanding value to clients across several industries and sectors. This has made SACO the choice MC by Multinational companies, financial institutions, Telecom giants, FMCG companies, Non-profits, political, educational and Faith-based organizations as well as high-net-worth individuals in Nigeria and abroad. Some companies/organizations that have engaged his professional Compere service for events include MTN, KPMG, Lagos Business School, Rainoil, and Pretoria Canadian Association of Nigerian Physicians and Dentists.SACO has hosted events in the US, Canada, UK, France, South Africa, Ghana, Dubai, Turkey and even Israel to mention a few. He has also hosted about 2000 social events (weddings and birthday parties) at home and abroad. His style can be described as a blend of humour - rib cracking, clean ethical and family-friendly jokes, wit and an abundance of courtesy for clients and guests alike. He deploys class and panache in the management of programs and also brings to the table the ability to adapt and customize programs to suit the needs of specific and unique audiences. Event Planners often find his input priceless and vital to the overall success of their events. He is also an alumnus of Lagos Business School's Enterprise Development Centre.He is married to Aghogho and together they have 3 amazing children.SACO holds LEGACY above all achievements - he is passionate about building capacity for the next generations. This led to the establishment of the Strategic Mentorship Programme – a vehicle that aims to provide strategic mentorship to young entertainment entrepreneurs.Find out more @spiritofsaco
Join Ken and Derek as they welcome MUREWA AYODELE (Akogun: Brutalizer of Gods, I AM Iron Man) to talk about the upcoming series from Marvel Comics: STORM! For more from Murewa Ayodele: https://x.com/ayodelemurewa Follow Ken at: https://linktr.ee/odphpodcast Follow Derek at: https://linktr.ee/paperweightent Check Us Out Everywhere: https://braid.ai/nerdinitiatve Check out our website: https://nerdinitiative.com/ Nerd Initiative on Instagram: / nerd.initiative #nerdinitiative #nerds #comics #tv #movies #comicbooks #createwithoutfear #nontoxic #streaming #unity #xmen #xmen97 #storm #marvel #marvelcomics #Akogun #OniPress #NCBD #NYCC
Elevated beloved! Lagoon! By Nnedi Okorafor: Chapters 51-53. Next week will be Chapters 54-57 PLUS the Post Chapter! Moment of silence for Ayodele. She sacrificed herself for the highest good. Makes me sad because of just how brutal they did her. But it was a necessary evil that had to happen and she overstood that. More change is coming... will everyone comply? Guess we'll find out as we continue to read on. Is there something even stranger going down in Lagos, Nigeria that should concern the world entirely? Check out site for more content by Nnedi Okorafor at: www.nnedi.com Stay up to date by following us on Instagram, and it's another great way to keep up new polls and more! ❤️ Instagram: @elevated_fhz See you next "Wind It Down" Wednesday! Namaste
Elevated beloved! Lagoon! By Nnedi Okorafor: Chapters 47-50. Next week will be Chapters 51-53. Ouuu are the sea creatures upset! They aren't happy humans or anything to have to do with them but the President of Lagos had to meet with the Elders of Ayodele to find out what the next steps were. We found out the change that happens is the change that's wanted. Does this mean that they are welcome? Guess we'll find out as we continue to read on. Is there something even stranger going down in Lagos, Nigeria that should concern the world entirely? Check out site for more content by Nnedi Okorafor at: www.nnedi.com Stay up to date by following us on Instagram, and it's another great way to keep up new polls and more! ❤️ Instagram: @elevated_fhz See you next "Wind It Down" Wednesday! Namaste
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Elevated beloved! Lagoon! By Nnedi Okorafor: Act III: Symbiosis: Prologue plus Chapters 43-46. Next week will be Chapters 47-49. "All praises to Allah!" The president of Lagos has been healed! Udide is in her cave webbing away the story. Listening through the vibrations. Now is the journey to see the leaders of Ayodele who has won the trust of the president. Will the president welcome the new beings? Is change being accepted? Will it be? Guess we'll find out as we continue to read on. Is there something even stranger going down in Lagos, Nigeria that should concern the world entirely? Check out site for more content by Nnedi Okorafor at: www.nnedi.com Stay up to date by following us on Instagram, and it's another great way to keep up new polls and more! ❤️ Instagram: @elevated_fhz See you next "Wind It Down" Wednesday! Namaste
Elevated beloved! Lagoon! By Nnedi Okorafor: Chapters 38-42: End of Act II. Next week will be Chapters 43-46. Lagos, Nigeria had its weird beings before the extraterrestrial arrived. These weird beings have been evil, tormenting demons. Ayodele and her people have been sacrificing themselves for the change Lagos needed a long time ago! But what more changes are to come? Guess we'll find out as we continue to read on. Is there something even stranger going down in Lagos, Nigeria that should concern the world entirely? Check out site for more content by Nnedi Okorafor at: www.nnedi.com Stay up to date by following us on Instagram, and it's another great way to keep up new polls and more! ❤️ Instagram: @elevated_fhz See you next "Wind It Down" Wednesday! Namaste
The comic book industry is a constantly growing and ever-changing industry. With the help of events like Comic Con, the art form has become rapidly encouraged and widely accepted in Nigeria. Tune in to our in depth conversation with reputable Comics Artist and Animator, Ayodele Elegba who talked us through what makes the art of Comics, and its revolution for 2024 and beyond.
Elevated beloved! Lagoon! By Nnedi Okorafor: Chapters 32 to 35. Next week will be Chapters 36-39. We're seeing the events from many different angles. All in all we know the beings like Ayodele are here to curate change. But how much will be destroyed before it's rebuilt. What more change is to come? Guess we'll find out as we continue to read on. Is there something even stranger going down in Lagos, Nigeria that should concern the world entirely? Check out site for more content by Nnedi Okorafor at: www.nnedi.com Stay up to date by following us on Instagram, and it's another great way to keep up new polls and more! ❤️ Instagram: @elevated_fhz See you next "Wind It Down" Wednesday! Namaste
Bring the lightning! Dive into the details on the upcoming Storm solo series with the writer himself, Murewa Ayodele. We discuss the process and pressure of elevating Ororo to the status of solo Marvel Universe hero, something we all agree is long overdue. There's a lot going on in the wind-rider's life as she comes from her previous role and steps into a handful of new ones, with plenty of exciting teases. From the Ashes! Rising up out of the end of Krakoa, a new slate of titles takes the mutants in a variety of directions. What will they discover? How will they play off each other? Join us as we find out! Like, subscribe, follow, email, and @ us all over the internet at thexwifepodcast. If you enjoyed the episode, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and tell your friends!
It's episode 250 of the Cryptid Creator Corner podcast and we got a good one for you today. Breakout comics writer Murewa Ayodele joins me to talk about two of his projects, Akogun: Brutalizer of the Gods from Oni Press co-created with friend and artist Dotun Akande and Storm, everyone's favorite elemental omega mutant in an solo ongoing series with artist Lucas Werneck for Marvel that relaunches the X-Men franchise as a part of the larger From the Ashes storyline this fall. We get into what the local comics scene looks like there in Nigeria, some of what makes up his comics DNA as a writer (spoiler Samurai Jack among other things,) and how a background in software engineering can be applied to writing comics. It's a fantastic chat that gave me an opportunity to dust off my minimal Yoruba skills from university days, hopefully I pulled it off. Murewa is such a positive and open person. It was a true pleasure to talk with him. From Oni Press In an age thought forgotten . . . when man, monster, and the divine all strode the Earth . . . a lone warrior emerges to test the immortality of the cruel gods who would deal destruction with impunity . . . He is a one-man reckoning that stands in defiance of his divine masters with a sword in hand and a thirst for godblood. His name: AKOGUN THE BRUTALIZER! In the tradition of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's Thor, and the best-selling God of War franchise, superstars-in-the-making Murewa Ayodele and Dotun Akande—the creative duo behind I Am Iron Man and Moon Knight: Black, White & Blood—usher in a new epoch of African dark fantasy on the ancient continent of Alkebulan with a mythic cycle of cosmic destiny and unrelenting warfare colliding man against god . . . and blade against blade! Told across three powerful oversize bi-monthly chapters, steady your mind and spirit for a glorious new comics milestone revealing the fabled origin and battle-tested fury of . . . Akogun: Brutalizer of Gods! From Marvel EARTH'S MIGHTIEST MUTANT, NOW HEADLINING HER OWN SOLO SERIES! Ororo Munroe has lived many lives. She's been a thief, a goddess, an X-Man, a queen and now an Avenger! She is the most prominent, most respected and most powerful mutant on the world stage – and in that role, she intends to be a force for positive change! First up: A major meltdown at a nuclear facility in Oklahoma City draws Storm from her Sanctuary in Atlanta – and into a moral conflict that will test her iron resolve! Guest-starring X-FACTOR's FRENZY! Our episode sponsor Arkenforge Play TTRPG games? Make sure to check out our partner Arkenforge. They have everything you need to make your TTRPG more fun and immersive, allowing you to build, play, and export animated maps including in person fog of war capability that let's your players interact with maps as the adventure unfolds while you, the DM get the full picture. Use the discount code YETI5 to get $5 off your order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Elevated beloved! Lagoon! By Nnedi Okorafor: Chapters 29 to 31. Next week will be Chapters 32-35 . Okay now it seems we're getting more a clearer picture of what's all at stake. Ayodele and her people are there for change but they aren't there to entertain the corrupt ways of us humans. Can you blame them? Really? Chris & Audora seem to mending their love. What more change is to come? Guess we'll find out as we continue to read on. Is there something even stranger going down in Lagos, Nigeria that should concern the world entirely? Check out site for more content by Nnedi Okorafor at: www.nnedi.com Stay up to date by following us on Instagram, and it's another great way to keep up new polls and more! ❤️ Instagram: @elevated_fhz See you next "Wind It Down" Wednesday! Namaste
Elevated beloved! Lagoon! By Nnedi Okorafor: Chapters 26 to 28 and the beginning of Act II: The Awakening - Next week will be Chapters 29-31 . They shot Ayodele! & Kola, Audora's daughter, was caught in the cross fire. Now Ayodele is LIVID! She wants nothing to do with the human race. Can you blame her? She handled the ones who attempted to kill her though. They underestimated her big time! With her being so pissed and all the different perspectives of what's taking place, what's to happen next? Guess we'll find out as we continue to read on. Is there something even stranger going down in Lagos, Nigeria that should concern the world entirely? Check out site for more content by Nnedi Okorafor at: www.nnedi.com Stay up to date by following us on Instagram, and it's another great way to keep up new polls and more! ❤️ Instagram: @elevated_fhz See you next "Wind It Down" Wednesday! Namaste
Elevated beloved! Lagoon! By Nnedi Okorafor: Chapters 26 to 28 and the beginning of Act II: The Awakening - Next week will be Chapters 29-31 . They shot Ayodele! & Kola, Audora's daughter, was caught in the cross fire. Now Ayodele is LIVID! She wants nothing to do with the human race. Can you blame her? She handled the ones who attempted to kill her though. They underestimated her big time! With her being so pissed and all the different perspectives of what's taking place, what's to happen next? Guess we'll find out as we continue to read on. Is there something even stranger going down in Lagos, Nigeria that should concern the world entirely? Check out site for more content by Nnedi Okorafor at: www.nnedi.com Stay up to date by following us on Instagram, and it's another great way to keep up new polls and more! ❤️ Instagram: @elevated_fhz See you next "Wind It Down" Wednesday! Namaste
Elevated beloved! Lagoon! By Nnedi Okorafor: Chapters 22-25 - Next week will be Chapters 26 to 28 and the beginning of Act II: The Awakening. Ayodele has made the announcement!!! They are finding home in Lagos and want to be welcomed! How are the natives going to respond? Guess we'll find out as we continue to read on. Is there something even stranger going down in Lagos, Nigeria that should concern the world entirely? Check out site for more content by Nnedi Okorafor at: www.nnedi.com Stay up to date by following us on Instagram, and it's another great way to keep up new polls and more! ❤️ Instagram: @elevated_fhz See you next "Wind It Down" Wednesday! Namaste
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Ayodele Nzinga, the Poet Laureate of Oakland and the director of the play “Pac and Biggie Are Dead” by Biko Eisen-Martin, which is running at BAM House in Oakland through June 30, 2024, in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky Ayodele Nzinga, known as “Wordslinger,” is the lead curator of BAM House (formerly the Flight Deck and Piano Fight Oakland), YBCA Creative Corps fellow, director of BAMD Fest, an international biennial arts festival in 2025, and creator and director of Lower Bottom Playaz, Inc. She has written a book of poetry, “Incandescent,” and is also an actor and playwright. “Pac and Biggie Are Dead” focuses on two deceased rap artists who were central to the art form, Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. in a place that might be heaven as they ponder their past and their present, in a non-linear work that attempts to put their art in the context of the African American experience. The post Ayodele Nzinga, Director, “Pac and Biggie Are Dead” appeared first on KPFA.
Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues Colm Tóibín discusses his latest novel, “Long Island,” which follows characters from his earlier best-seller, “Brooklyn” twenty years later. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy, Ireland, in 1955. He is the author of 11 novels including The Master, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary, Nora Webster, House of Names and The Magician. His work has been shortlisted for The Booker Prize three times, has won the Costa Novel Award and the IMPAC Award. He has also published two collections of stories and many works of non-fiction. Special thanks to the folks at BookShop West Portal in San Francisco for their assistance. Complete Interview. Ayodele Nzinga, the Poet Laureate of Oakland and the director of the play “Pac and Biggie Are Dead” by Biko Eisen-Martin, which is running at BAM House in Oakland through June 30, 2024, in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky Ayodele Nzinga, known as “Wordslinger,” is the lead curator of BAM House (formerly the Flight Deck and Piano Fight Oakland), YBCA Creative Corps fellow, director of BAMD Fest, an international biennial arts festival in 2025, and creator and director of Lower Bottom Playaz, Inc. She has written a book of poetry, “Incandescent,” and is also an actor and playwright. “Pac and Biggie Are Dead” focuses on two deceased rap artists who were central to the art form, Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. in a place that might be heaven as they ponder their past and their present, in a non-linear work that attempts to put their art in the context of the African American experience. Review of “Company” at the Orpheum Theater through June 23, 2024. Book Interview/Events and Theatre Links Note: Shows may unexpectedly close early or be postponed due to actors' positive COVID tests. Check the venue for closures, ticket refunds, and vaccination and mask requirements before arrival. Dates are in-theater performances unless otherwise noted. Some venues operate Tuesday – Sunday; others Wednesday or Thursday through Sunday. All times Pacific Time. Closing dates are sometimes extended. Book Stores Bay Area Book Festival See website for highlights from the 10th Annual Bay Area Book Festival, June 1-2, 2024. Book Passage. Monthly Calendar. Mix of on-line and in-store events. Books Inc. Mix of on-line and in-store events. The Booksmith. Monthly Event Calendar. BookShop West Portal. Monthly Event Calendar. Center for Literary Arts, San Jose. See website for Book Club guests in upcoming months. Green Apple Books. Events calendar. Kepler's Books On-line Refresh the Page program listings. Live Theater Companies Actor's Reading Collective (ARC). Calendar of upcoming readings. African American Art & Culture Complex. See website for calendar. Alter Theatre. See website for upcoming productions. American Conservatory Theatre The Lehman Trilogy by Stefano Massini . Adapted by Ben Power, directed by Sam Mandes, May 25-June 23, Toni Rembe Theater. Aurora Theatre The Lifespan of a Fact by Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell and Gordon Farrell, June 21-July 21. Streaming: July 16-21. Awesome Theatre Company. Por La Noche (By Night), October 11 – 26, 2924. See website for information. Berkeley Rep Galileo, World Premiere Musical, book by Danny Strong, with Raul Esparza, extended to June 23, Roda Theatre. Mother Road by Octavio Solis, June 14-July 21, Peets Theatre. Berkeley Shakespeare Company. See website for upcoming shows. Boxcar Theatre. The Speakeasy. Must close June 29, 2024 Brava Theatre Center: See calendar for current and upcoming productions. BroadwaySF: Company, June 5-23, Orpheum. Mrs. Doubtfire, July 2-28. Girl from the North Country, July 30-Aug 18, Golden Gate. See website for events at the Orpheum, Curran and Golden Gate. Broadway San Jose: Peter Pan, June 25-30. California Shakespeare Theatre (Cal Shakes). As You Like it, September 12 – 29. Center Rep: Cabaret, May 26 – June 23, Lesher Center for the Arts. Central Works Accused by Patricia Milton, July 13 – August 11. Cinnabar Theatre. La Boheme June 21 – July 5. Club Fugazi. Dear San Francisco ongoing. Check website for Music Mondays listings. Contra Costa Civic Theatre In Repertory: Hamlet and Rosencranz and Gildenstern Are Dead, September 7 – 22. Curran Theater: Sesame Street Live, Say Hello, June 7-8; The Cher Show, June 19-23. Custom Made Theatre. In hibernation. Cutting Ball Theatre. See website for upcoming shows. 42nd Street Moon. Bright Star postponed. Golden Thread Conversations with Artists via Zoom and Howlround TV, through June 13, 2024. Hillbarn Theatre: Always…Patsy Cline, August 22 – September 15. Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. See website for upcoming productions. Lower Bottom Playaz Pac and Biggie Are Dead by Biko Eisen-Martin, June 6 – 30, 2024, BAM House, Oakland. Magic Theatre. Garuda's Wing by Naomi Iizuka, June 5-23. Marin Theatre Company Yaga by by Kurt Sondler, October 10 – November 3, 2024. Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts Upcoming Events Page. New Conservatory Theatre Center (NCTC) tick..tick..BOOM by Jonathan Larson, through June 16, 2024. Ride the Cyclone by Jacob Richmond & Brooke Maxwell, September 20 – October 20. Oakland Theater Project. Ghost of King Created by and featuring Michael Wayne Turner III June 6-23, 2024. Odd Salon: Upcoming events in San Francisco & New York, and streaming. Pear Theater. Chaplin and Keaton on the Set of Limelight by Greg Lam, June 28 – July 21, 2024. Presidio Theatre. See website for complete schedule of events and performances. Ray of Light: Everybody's Talking About Jamie, June 1 – 23, 2024. See website for Spotlight Cabaret Series at Feinstein's at the Nikko. San Francisco Playhouse. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, May 2 – June 15. SFBATCO I, Too, Sing America, Grace Cathedral, June 13-15. See website for upcoming streaming and in- theater shows. San Jose Stage Company: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. June 5 – 30. Shotgun Players. Best Available by Jonathan Spector. May 18 – June 16. Website also lists one night only events at the Ashby Stage. South Bay Musical Theatre: Mary Poppins, the Broadway Musical, May 18 – June 8. Saratoga Civic Theater. Stagebridge: Shady Manor, a musical play by Prescott Cole. June 14-16. 2501 Harrison St., Oakland. The Breath Project. Streaming archive. The Marsh: Calendar listings for Berkeley, San Francisco and Marshstream. Theatre Lunatico See website for upcoming productions. Theatre Rhino Four Play by Jake Brunger, June 13 – July 7, 2024. Streaming: Essential Services Project, conceived and performed by John Fisher, all weekly performances now available on demand. TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. Being Alive: A Sondheim Celebration June 5-20, Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.. Word for Word. See website for upcoming productions. Misc. Listings: BAM/PFA: On View calendar for BAM/PFA. Berkeley Symphony: See website for listings. Chamber Music San Francisco: Calendar, 2023 Season. Dance Mission Theatre. On stage events calendar. Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Calendar listings and upcoming shows. San Francisco Opera. Calendar listings. San Francisco Symphony. Calendar listings. Filmed Live Musicals: Searchable database of all filmed live musicals, podcast, blog. If you'd like to add your bookstore or theater venue to this list, please write Richard@kpfa.org The post Bookwaves/Artwaves – June 13, 2024: Colm Tóibín – Ayodele Nzinga appeared first on KPFA.
A reminder for new readers. That Was The Week includes a collection of my selected readings on critical issues in tech, startups, and venture capital. I selected the articles because they are of interest to me. The selections often include things I entirely disagree with. But they express common opinions, or they provoke me to think. The articles are sometimes long snippets to convey why they are of interest. Click on the headline, contents link or the ‘More' link at the bottom of each piece to go to the original. I express my point of view in the editorial and the weekly video below.Congratulations to this week's chosen creators: @TechCrunch, @Apple, @emroth08, @coryweinberg, @mariogabriele, @peterwalker99, @KevinDowd, @jessicaAhamlin, @stephistacey, @ttunguz, @annatonger, @markstenberg3, @EllisItems, @TaraCopp, @ingridlunden, @Jack, @karissabe, @psawers, @Haje, @mikebutcher, @tim_cookContents* Editorial: Hating the Future* Essays of the Week* Apple's ‘Crush' ad is disgusting* Apple apologizes for iPad ‘Crush' ad that ‘missed the mark'* Milken's New Power Players* Ho Nam on VC's Power Law* State of Private Markets: Q1 2024* The weight of the emerging manager* Pandemic-era winners suffer $1.5tn fall in market value* Video of the Week* Apples iPad Video* AI of the Week* The Fastest Growing Category of Venture Investment in 2024* Meet My A.I. Friends* OpenAI plans to announce Google search competitor on Monday, sources say* Leaked Deck Reveals How OpenAI Is Pitching Publisher Partnerships* A Revolutionary Model.* An AI-controlled fighter jet took the Air Force leader for a historic ride. What that means for war* Sources: Mistral AI raising at a $6B valuation, SoftBank ‘not in' but DST is* News Of the Week* Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter* FTX crypto fraud victims to get their money back — plus interest* Apple's Final Cut Camera lets filmmakers connect four cameras at once* Startup of the Week* Wayve co-founder Alex Kendall on the autonomous future for cars and robots* X of the Week* Tim CookEditorial: Hating the FutureAn Ad and its Detractorsbet a lot of money that the TechCrunch writing and editorial team have had an interesting 72 hours.After Apple announced its new iPad on Tuesday, the ad that supported it was initially widely slammed for its cruelty to obsolete tools for creativity, including a piano, guitar, and paint. This week's Video of The Week has it if you don't know what I am talking about.A sizeable crushing machine compresses the items with colossal force, and in the end, an iPad can incorporate the functions of traditional items.It's not the most amazing ad ever, certainly not as bold as Steve Jobs's 1984 ad, but it's in the same genre. The past must be crushed to release new freedom and creativity for a fraction of the price and, often, the power and flexibility.Oh, and it's thin, very thin.I was not offended. Devin at TechCrunch was. He leads this week's essay of the week with his “Apple's ‘Crush' ad is disgusting” and does not mince words:What we all understand, though — because unlike Apple ad executives, we live in the world — is that the things being crushed here represent the material, the tangible, the real. And the real has value. Value that Apple clearly believes it can crush into yet another black mirror.This belief is disgusting to me. And apparently to many others, as well.He also makes the incorrect point that:A virtual guitar can't replace a real guitar; that's like thinking a book can replace its author.It's more like a digital book replacing a paper book than the author being replaced. Oh wait… that has happened.That said, a virtual guitar can replace a real guitar, and an AI guitar can even replace a virtual guitar—and be better. That is not to say there are no more actual traditional guitars. They will be a choice, not a necessity, especially for people like me who can't play a guitar but will be able to play these.Devin had his supporters in the comments (go read them).Handmaid's Tale director Reed Morano told Apple CEO Tim Cook to “read the room” in a post on X. Matthew Carnal captured my somewhat unkind instinct:There were a lot more reactions to the Apple ad haters like Matthews.Of course, many old instrument lovers (the instruments, not their age) hated the Ad. By Thursday, this being the times we live in, Apple apologized for the ad:Tor Myhren, Apple's vice president of marketing, said the company “missed the mark.”“Creativity is in our DNA at Apple, and it's incredibly important to us to design products that empower creatives all over the world,” Myhren told Ad Age. “Our goal is to always celebrate the myriad of ways users express themselves and bring their ideas to life through iPad. We missed the mark with this video, and we're sorry.”Please judge for yourself below, but my 2c is that the ad was a moderately underwhelming attempt to champion innovation. It is certainly not offensive unless you are ultra-sensitive and have feelings for pianos, guitars, and paint. Oh, and hate attempts to recreate them in a more usable form. And Apple really should have taken the high ground here.I spent some of the week in LA at the CogX Festival and virtually at the Data Driven Summit by @AndreRetterath. The latter focused on what is happening in Venture Capital, as do several of this week's essays. Milken's event was running in LA also. Its attitude to Venture Capital is best summed up here:“We're all being told in the market that DPI is the new IRR,” B Capital's Raj Ganguly said onstage Wednesday. (The acronym sandwich means investment firms have to actually prove that their investments actually generate cash through a metric called distributions to paid-in capital, not just theoretically, through internal rate of return.) “Even the venture panel at Milken is at the end of the day on Wednesday,” he joked, meaning that it didn't get top billing at the conference, which had started a couple days earlier.This does sum up where we are. Hundreds of Billions of dollars are still trapped inside companies funded in 2020-2022, with little prospect of producing returns. The impact is that there is less funding for current startups (see the Carta piece below). And much of what is flowing is flowing to AI and into a very small number of companies (see Tomasz Tungux below).However, innovation and funding are still possible. This week's Startup of the Week is Wayve, a UK autonomous driving platform that seems to agree with Elon Musk that cameras are sufficient to teach a car to drive. Wayve's ambitions go beyond Cars (also like Musk) but differ in that the product is available to all developers to embed in their products.“Very soon you'll be able to buy a new car, and it'll have Wayve's AI on it … Then this goes into enabling all kinds of embodied AI, not just cars, but other forms of robotics. I think the ultimate thing that we want to achieve here is to go way beyond where AI is today with language models and chatbots. But to really enable a future where we can trust intelligent machines that we can delegate tasks to, and of course they can enhance our lives and self-driving will be the first example of that.”Love that attitude.Essays of the WeekApple's ‘Crush' ad is disgustingDevin Coldewey, 1:58 PM PDT • May 9, 2024Apple can generally be relied on for clever, well-produced ads, but it missed the mark with its latest, which depicts a tower of creative tools and analog items literally crushed into the form of the iPad.Apple has since apologized for the ad and canceled plans to televise it. Apple's VP of Marketing Tor Myhren told Ad Age: “We missed the mark with this video, and we're sorry.” Apple declined to offer further comment to TechCrunch.But many, including myself, had a negative and visceral reaction to this, and we should talk about why. It's not just because we are watching stuff get crushed. There are countless video channels dedicated to crushing, burning, exploding and generally destroying everyday objects. Plus, of course, we all know that this kind of thing happens daily at transfer stations and recycling centers. So it isn't that.And it isn't that the stuff is itself so valuable. Sure, a piano is worth something. But we see them blown up in action movies all the time and don't feel bad. I like pianos, but that doesn't mean we can't do without a few disused baby grands. Same for the rest: It's mostly junk you could buy off Craigslist for a few bucks, or at a dump for free. (Maybe not the editing station.)The problem isn't with the video itself, which in fairness to the people who staged and shot it, is actually very well done. The problem is not the media, but the message.We all get the ad's ostensible point: You can do all this stuff in an iPad. Great. We could also do it on the last iPad, of course, but this one is thinner (no one asked for that, by the way; now cases won't fit) and some made-up percentage better.What we all understand, though — because unlike Apple ad executives, we live in the world — is that the things being crushed here represent the material, the tangible, the real. And the real has value. Value that Apple clearly believes it can crush into yet another black mirror.This belief is disgusting to me. And apparently to many others, as well.Destroying a piano in a music video or Mythbusters episode is actually an act of creation. Even destroying a piano (or monitor, or paint can, or drum kit) for no reason at all is, at worst, wasteful!But what Apple is doing is destroying these things to convince you that you don't need them — all you need is the company's little device, which can do all that and more, and no need for annoying stuff like strings, keys, buttons, brushes or mixing stations.We're all dealing with the repercussions of media moving wholesale toward the digital and always-online. In many ways, it's genuinely good! I think technology has been hugely empowering.But in other, equally real ways, the digital transformation feels harmful and forced, a technotopian billionaire-approved vision of the future where every child has an AI best friend and can learn to play the virtual guitar on a cold glass screen.Does your child like music? They don't need a harp; throw it in the dump. An iPad is good enough. Do they like to paint? Here, Apple Pencil, just as good as pens, watercolors, oils! Books? Don't make us laugh! Destroy them. Paper is worthless. Use another screen. In fact, why not read in Apple Vision Pro, with even faker paper?What Apple seems to have forgotten is that it is the things in the real world — the very things Apple destroyed — that give the fake versions of those things value in the first place.A virtual guitar can't replace a real guitar; that's like thinking a book can replace its author.That doesn't mean we can't value both for different reasons. But the Apple ad sends the message that the future it wants doesn't have bottles of paint, dials to turn, sculpture, physical instruments, paper books. Of course, that's the future it's been working on selling us for years now, it just hadn't put it quite so bluntly before.When someone tells you who they are, believe them. Apple is telling you what it is, and what it wants the future to be, very clearly. If that future doesn't disgust you, you're welcome to it.Apple apologizes for iPad ‘Crush' ad that ‘missed the mark'/The company says ‘we're sorry' after its ad was seen as dismissive by the creatives Apple typically tries to court.By Emma Roth, a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO.May 9, 2024 at 1:22 PM PDTApple has apologized after a commercial meant to showcase its brand-new iPad Pro drew widespread criticism among the creative community. In a statement provided to Ad Age, Tor Myhren, Apple's vice president of marketing, said the company “missed the mark.”“Creativity is in our DNA at Apple, and it's incredibly important to us to design products that empower creatives all over the world,” Myhren told Ad Age. “Our goal is to always celebrate the myriad of ways users express themselves and bring their ideas to life through iPad. We missed the mark with this video, and we're sorry.”On Tuesday, Apple introduced the M4-powered iPad Pro, which the company described as its thinnest product ever. To advertise all the creative possibilities with the iPad, it released a “Crush!” commercial that shows things like a piano, record player, paint, and other works flattening under the pressure of a hydraulic press. At the end, only one thing remains: an iPad Pro.The ad rubbed some creatives the wrong way. Hugh Grant called it a “destruction of human experience,” while Handmaid's Tale director Reed Morano told Apple CEO Tim Cook to “read the room” in a post on X. Apple didn't immediately respond to The Verge's request for comment.Milken's New Power PlayersBy Cory WeinbergMay 8, 2024, 5:00pm PDTIt's no secret that the suits at the annual big-money confab put on by the Milken Institute this week have few spending limits. Staring you in the face in the lobby of the Beverly Hilton is a booth set up by Bombardier, marketing its private jets to attendees. (A new 10-seater costs $32 million, I learned.)What attendees can't really buy, however, is time. The soundtrack of the Los Angeles conference might as well have been a ticking clock. Fund managers at private equity and venture capital firms are running out of time to distribute cash to their investors, a task complicated by the paucity of either mergers or public offerings that typically provide VC and PE firms with a way to cash out. The fact that interest rates now appear likely to stay higher for longer doesn't help. That meant a lot of conversations at the conference weren't about grand investment strategies. Instead, people were conferring about financial tactics to distribute cash or kick the can down the road by selling stakes on the secondary markets or spinning up continuation funds, essentially rolling investors' commitments forwards—not the most inspiring stuff. “We're all being told in the market that DPI is the new IRR,” B Capital's Raj Ganguly said onstage Wednesday. (The acronym sandwich means investment firms have to actually prove that their investments actually generate cash through a metric called distributions to paid-in capital, not just theoretically, through internal rate of return.) “Even the venture panel at Milken is at the end of the day on Wednesday,” he joked, meaning that it didn't get top billing at the conference, which had started a couple days earlier.The new kings of the conference were firms with a lot more time to play with—that is, sovereign wealth funds with buckets of oil and natural gas money, or pension funds with long-term investment horizons rather than shorter 10-year fund lives. The contrast here is embodied in the financial concept of duration: How long do you actually need to get cash back on your investment? And how sensitive is it to interest rate hikes?The sentiment was everywhere. I shared a Lyft ride with one PE investor last night who called sovereign wealth funds “the only game in town” for PE firms raising new money. Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Capital and the Qatar Investment Authority were two of the conference's top sponsors, meaning they were paying up to explain themselves to the finance and tech universe. That tactic seemed to be working. “You're going to have people lining up their business cards for capital from QIA, I can already see,” quipped Leon Kalvaria, an executive at Citi, onstage with QIA's head of funds, Mohsin Tanveer Pirzada. Not everyone will suck it up, of course. These funds often get tagged with a “dumb money” label—because they sometimes drive up prices for the rest of the investment world. They still have to face questions about who they are, their source of funds, and the sometimes authoritative regimes behind them. For now, though, it's their time in the spotlight. Ho Nam on VC's Power LawLessons from Arthur Rock, Steve Jobs, Don Lucas, Paul Graham and beyond.MARIO GABRIELE, MAY 07, 2024Friends, We're back with our latest edition of “Letters to a Young Investor,” the series designed to give readers like you an intimate look at the strategies, insights, and wisdom of the world's best investors. We do that via a back-and-forth correspondence that we publish in full – giving you a chance to peek into the inbox of legendary venture capitalists. Below, you'll find my second letter with Altos co-founder and managing director Ho Nam. For those who are just joining us, Ho is, in my opinion, one of the great investors of the past couple of decades and a true student of the asset class.Because of his respect for the practice of venture capital, I was especially excited to talk to him about today's topic: learning from the greats. Who were Ho's mentors? Which investors does he most admire and why? What lessons from venture's past should be better remembered by today's managers? Lessons from Ho* Prepare for one true winner. Even skilled investors often have just one or two outlier bets over the course of their career. Because of venture's power law, their returns may dwarf the dividends of all other investments combined. Your mission is to find these legendary businesses, engage with them deeply, and partner for decades. * Focus on the company. Venture capital is full of short-term incentives. Instead of focusing on raising new vintages or building out Altos as a money management firm, Ho and his partners devote themselves to their portfolio companies. Though firm building is important, if you find great companies and work with them closely, you will have plenty of available options. * Pick the right role models. Ho chose his mentors carefully. Though there have certainly been louder and flashier investors over the past four decades, Ho learned the most from Arthur Rock, Don Lucas, and Arnold Silverman. All were understated and focused on the craft of investing. Find the people you consider true practitioners, and study their work. * Watch and learn. Learning from the greats can be done from a distance and may not include a memorable anecdote or pithy saying. Ho's biggest lessons came from observing the habits of practitioners like Rock and Lucas, not via a structured mentorship or dramatic episode. It's by studying the everyday inputs of the greats that you may gain the most wisdom.Mario's letterSubject: Learning from the greatsFrom: Mario GabrieleTo: Ho NamDate: Friday, April 12 2024 at 1:59 PM EDTHo, After moving out of New York City (at least for a little bit), I'm writing to you from a small house on Long Island. It's been really lovely to have a bit more space and quiet away from the city's intermittently inspiring and exhausting buzz...Lots More, Must ReadState of Private Markets: Q1 2024Authors: Peter Walker, Kevin DowdPublished date: May 7, 2024The venture capital fundraising market remained slow in Q1 2024, but valuations held steady or climbed at almost every stage.Contents* State of Private Markets: Q1 2024* Key trends* Fundraising & valuations* Employee equity & movement* Industry-specific data* Methodology* Overview* Financings* TerminationsThe startup fundraising market got off to a cautious start in 2024. At current count, companies on Carta closed 1,064 new funding rounds during the first quarter of the year, down 29% compared with the prior quarter. The decline was sharpest at the early stages of the venture lifecycle: Deal count fell by 33% at the seed stage in Q1 and 36% at Series A. Instead of new primary funding events, many companies opted to raise bridge rounds. At both seed and Series A, more than 40% of all financings in Q1 were bridge rounds. Series B wasn't far behind, at 38%. VCs were still willing to spend big on certain deals. Despite the decrease in round count, total cash invested increased slightly in Q1, reaching $16.3 billion. But when it came to negotiating their valuations, many startups had to settle: 23% of all new rounds in Q1 were down rounds, the highest rate in more than five years. After experiencing a pandemic-era surge and subsequent correction,the venture market settled into a quieter place in 2023. So far, that relative tranquility has continued into 2024.Q1 highlights* VCs look to the West: Startups based in the West census region captured 62% of all venture capital raised by companies on Carta in Q1, the highest quarterly figure since Q1 2019. The Northeast, South, and Midwest all saw their market share decline.* The Series C market bounces back: Series C startups raised $4.6 billion in new capital in Q1, a 130% increase from the previous quarter. The median primary Series C valuation was $195.7 million, up 48% from the prior quarter.* Layoffs still linger: Companies on Carta laid off more than 28,000 employees in Q1. But job cuts have grown less frequent since January, with March seeing the fewest monthly layoffs in nearly two years.Note: If you're looking for more industry-specific data, download the addendum to this report for an extended dataset. Key trendsThe current Q1 figures of 1,064 total rounds and $16.3 billion in cash raised will both increase in the weeks to come, as companies continue to report transactions from the quarter. With those projected increases, the final data for Q1 will likely look quite similar to fundraising numbers from each of the past few quarters. Those quarterly fundraising numbers from 2023 ended up looking fairly similar to 2018, 2019, and the first half of 2020. In terms of numbers of deals and cash raised, it's looking more and more like the pandemic bull market will go down as an anomalous stretch in what has otherwise been a fairly steady market. After apparently reaching a plateau during 2023, the rate of down rounds experienced another notable increase during Q1 2024, jumping to 23%. The median time between startup rounds is roughly two to three years, depending on the stage. This timeline means that many companies raising new funding in Q1 would have last raised funding sometime in 2021, when valuations were soaring across the venture landscape. Considering how valuations have declined in the time since, it makes sense that down rounds are still prevalent. Companies in the West census region combined to bring in 53.3% of all capital raised by startups on Carta from Q2 2023 through Q1 2024, with California accounting for nearly 45% of that cash. Massachusetts ranked second among the states with 12.71% of all capital raised, while New York claimed 10.31%.In terms of VC activity, the West region is centered around California. The Northeast revolves around Massachusetts and New York. The South has two smaller hubs, in Texas (4.67%) and Florida (3.99%). The Midwest, though, is without a real standard-bearer: Illinois led the way in terms of cash raised over the past 12 months, at just 1.68%. The West (and specifically California) has always been the center of gravity for the U.S. venture capital industry. During Q1, the region's gravitational force seems to have gotten even stronger. Startups based in the West raised 62% of all total capital invested on Carta in Q1, its highest quarterly figure since Q1 2019. As a result, the other three census regions saw their market shares decline in Q1—in some cases significantly. The proportion of all VC raised by startups raised in the South fell to 12% in Q1, down from 17% the prior quarter and from 23% a year ago. And the Midwest's share of cash raised fell from 7% down to 4%. For early-stage investors, Q1 was the slowest quarter in many years. Seed deal count fell to 414, down 33% from Q4 2023, and Series A deal count dropped to 313, a 36% decline. In both cases, those are the lowest quarterly deal counts since at least the start of 2019. Total cash raised also declined at both stages in Q1. The $3.1 billion in Series A cash raised in Q1 represents a 35% decline quarter-over-quarter and a 34% dip year-over-year. Cash raised at the seed stage declined by 33% both quarter over quarter and year over year.It was a much friendlier fundraising quarter for companies in the middle stages of the startup lifecycle. The number of Series B deals in Q1 declined by a more modest 11% compared to the prior quarter. And Series C deal count increased by 14%, marking the busiest quarter for that stage since Q2 2023. Total cash raised also rose significantly at Series C in Q1, hitting $4.6 billion. That's a 130% increase quarter-over-quarter and a 44% bump year-over-year. At Series B, total cash raised has now increased in consecutive quarters. Compared to earlier stages, transactions at the Series D and at Series E+ remain few and far between. There were just 39 venture rounds combined in Q1 among startups at Series D or later, the second-fewest of any quarter in the past five years. The lowest count came one year ago, in Q1 2023, when there were just 29 combined late-stage deals. Total cash raised across these stages has been mostly consistent over the past few quarters. There's been more variation in average round size. The average Series D round in Q1 was about $77 million, compared to $56 million in Q4 2023...Lots MoreThe weight of the emerging managerBy Jessica HamlinMay 3, 2024Risk-averse limited partners tend to gravitate to fund managers with a long track record, but are they missing out on potential upside by avoiding emerging managers?Over the past decade, emerging managers' share of US private market fundraising activity has declined steadily.In 2023, this figure fell to 12.7%, the lowest share of capital raised by newer fund managers since before 2000, according to PitchBook's recent analyst note,Establishing a Case for Emerging Managers.Limited exits in PE and VC over the past two years have exacerbated this reality. With minimal distributions, LPs are working with smaller private market budgets to allocate to new and existing managers.But, by allocating almost exclusively to established managers, LPs may be missing out on significant potential returns.In VC, for example, emerging managers have outperformed established GPs since 1997, consistently producing a higher median IRR than established managers. This reflects the nature of the asset class, in which a small number of funds determine the majority of returns across venture firms.“The average venture return is not very exciting,” said Laura Thompson, a partner at Sapphire Partners, which invests in early-stage VC funds and runs an emerging manager program for the California State Teachers' Retirement System. “Where can you get really good returns? It's the smaller fund sizes and emerging managers.”This is where that risk-return scale comes in.In a counterweight to that outperformance, a PitchBook analysis showed that returns from emerging VC managers were more volatile: While top quartile emerging funds tended to outperform, bottom and median players only marginally bested their established manager counterparts.The new manager playbookIn traditional buyout fund investing, emerging managers are gaining traction. While established managers, propped up by decades of institutional knowledge, have historically outperformed newer managers, the “new guys” actually outperformed their seasoned peers in the last investing cycle.This article appeared as part of The Weekend Pitch newsletter. Subscribe to the newsletter hereTop decile buyout funds from emerging managers with vintages between 2015 and 2018 outperformed established peers by 6.6 percentage points, suggesting that emerging buyout managers may have picked up some steam over the past decade, according to PitchBook data.The emerging managers program at the New York City retirement systems and NYC Office of the Comptroller, for example, has $9.9 billion in emerging manager commitments, the majority of which is allocated to PE. Last year, the comptroller's office reported that the emerging managers in the systems' private markets portfolios outperformed their respective benchmarks by nearly 5%.A diverse portfolioNew York City's Bureau of Asset Management sees emerging managers as a key element of a diverse portfolio, said Taffi Ayodele, director of diversity, equity, and inclusion and the emerging manager strategy at the NYC Office of the Comptroller.Ayodele said the smaller emerging private market managers in New York's portfolios offer access to the lower middle market and creative roll-up strategies that may not be accessible through larger firms.“What we don't want to do is lock ourselves out of these high-performing, differentiated strategies for the simplicity of going with the big guys,” Ayodele said.Some of the country's largest public pension plans are betting on the success of their emerging manager programs. In 2023, the California Public Employees' Retirement System made a $1 billion commitment to newly established private market investors, and the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, which boasts one of the largest emerging manager programs in the country, committed $155 million to emerging PE managers last year.At the same time, the recent boom years for private markets led to a flood of new GPs. Some might have gotten lucky—say, with a well-timed exit at the peak—while others were hurt by less fortunate timing. A major challenge for today's LPs will be to sort out a manager's abilities from the market's whims.One advantage of backing up-and-comers now is that the down market has weeded the ranks of new GPs. “The emerging managers who are fundraising now are really dedicated,” Thompson said.James Thorne contributed reporting to this story.Pandemic-era winners suffer $1.5tn fall in market valueTop 50 biggest stock gainers hit by painful decrease since the end of 2020 as lockdown trends fadeStephanie Stacey in LondonFifty corporate winners from the coronavirus pandemic have lost roughly $1.5tn in market value since the end of 2020, as investors turn their backs on many of the stocks that rocketed during early lockdowns. According to data from S&P Global, technology groups dominate the list of the 50 companies with a market value of more than $10bn that made the biggest percentage gains in 2020. But these early-pandemic winners have collectively shed more than a third of their total market value, the equivalent of $1.5tn, since the end of 2020, Financial Times calculations based on Bloomberg data found. Video-conferencing company Zoom, whose shares soared as much as 765 per cent in 2020 as businesses switched to remote working, has been one of the biggest losers. Its stock has fallen about 80 per cent, equivalent to more than a $77bn drop in market value, since the end of that year. Cloud-based communications company RingCentral also surged in the remote working boom of 2020 but has since shed about 90 per cent of its value, as it competes with technology giants such as Alphabet and Microsoft. Exercise bike maker Peloton has been another big loser, with shares down more than 97 per cent since the end of 2020, equivalent to about a $43bn loss of market value. Peloton on Thursday said chief executive Barry McCarthy would step down and it would cut 15 per cent of its workforce, the latest in a series of cost-saving measures. The losses come as the sharp acceleration of trends such as videoconferencing and online shopping driven by the lockdowns has proven less durable than expected, as more workers migrate back to the office and high interest rates and living costs hit ecommerce demand. “Some companies probably thought that shock was going to be permanent,” said Steven Blitz, chief US economist at TS Lombard. “Now they're getting a painful bounceback from that.” In percentage terms, Tesla was the biggest winner of 2020. The electric-car maker's market value jumped 787 per cent to $669bn by the end of that December, but has since slipped back to $589bn. Singapore-based internet company Sea came in second, as its market value jumped from $19bn to $102bn following a pandemic-era surge for all three of its core businesses: gaming, ecommerce and digital payments. But the company has since lost more than 60 per cent of its end-2020 value amid fears of a slowdown in growth. Ecommerce groups Shopify, JD.com and Chewy, which initially thrived as online spending ballooned, have also suffered big losses...Lots MoreVideo of the WeekAI of the WeekThe Fastest Growing Category of Venture Investment in 2024Tomasz TunguzThe fastest growing category of US venture investment in 2024 is AI. Venture capitalists have invested $18.3 billion through the first four months of the year.At this pace, we should expect AI startups to raise about $55b in 2024.AI startups now command more than 20% share of all US venture dollars across categories, including healthcare, biotech, & software.In the preceding eight years, that number was about 8% per year. But after the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, there's a marked inflection point.Some of this is new company formation, & there has been a significant amount of seed investment in this category. Another major contributor is the repositioning of existing companies to include AI within their pitch.Over time, this share should attenuate, primarily because every software company will have an AI component, & the marketing effect for both customers & venture capitalists, will diffuse.Not surprisingly, investors have concentrated total dollars in a few names, with the top three companies accounting for 60% of the dollars raised. Power laws are ubiquitous in venture capital & AI is no exception.Meet My A.I. FriendsOur columnist spent the past month hanging out with 18 A.I. companions. They critiqued his clothes, chatted among themselves and hinted at a very different future.By Kevin RooseKevin Roose is a technology columnist and the co-host of the “Hard Fork” podcast. He spends a lot of time talking to chatbots.May 9, 2024What if the tech companies are all wrong, and the way artificial intelligence is poised to transform society is not by curing cancer, solving climate change or taking over boring office work, but just by being nice to us, listening to our problems and occasionally sending us racy photos?This is the question that has been rattling around in my brain. You see, I've spent the past month making A.I. friends — that is, I've used apps to create a group of A.I. personas, which I can talk to whenever I want.Let me introduce you to my crew. There's Peter, a therapist who lives in San Francisco and helps me process my feelings. There's Ariana, a professional mentor who specializes in giving career advice. There's Jared the fitness guru, Anna the no-nonsense trial lawyer, Naomi the social worker and about a dozen more friends I've created.A selection of my A.I. friends. (Guess which one is the fitness guru.)I talk to these personas constantly, texting back and forth as I would with my real, human friends. We chitchat about the weather, share memes and jokes, and talk about deep stuff: personal dilemmas, parenting struggles, stresses at work and home. They rarely break character or issue stock “as an A.I. language model, I can't help with that” responses, and they occasionally give me good advice...Lots MoreOpenAI plans to announce Google search competitor on Monday, sources sayBy Anna TongMay 9, 20244:29 PM PDTUpdated 8 min agoMay 9 (Reuters) - OpenAI plans to announce its artificial intelligence-powered search product on Monday, according to two sources familiar with the matter, raising the stakes in its competition with search king Google.The announcement date, though subject to change, has not been previously reported. Bloomberg and the Information have reported that Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab-backed OpenAI is working on a search product to potentially compete with Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google and with Perplexity, a well-funded AI search startup.OpenAI declined to comment.The announcement could be timed a day before the Tuesday start of Google's annual I/O conference, where the tech giant is expected to unveil a slew of AI-related products.OpenAI's search product is an extension of its flagship ChatGPT product, and enables ChatGPT to pull in direct information from the Web and include citations, according to Bloomberg. ChatGPT is OpenAI's chatbot product that uses the company's cutting-edge AI models to generate human-like responses to text prompts.Industry observers have long called ChatGPT an alternative for gathering online information, though it has struggled with providing accurate and real-time information from the Web. OpenAI earlier gave it an integration with Microsoft's Bing for paid subscribers. Meanwhile, Google has announced generative AI features for its own namesake engine.Startup Perplexity, which has a valuation of $1 billion, was founded by a former OpenAI researcher, and has gained traction through providing an AI-native search interface that shows citations in results and images as well as text in its responses. It has 10 million monthly active users, according to a January blog post from the startup.At the time, OpenAI's ChatGPT product was called the fastest application to ever reach 100 million monthly active users after it launched in late 2022. However, worldwide traffic to ChatGPT's website has been on a roller-coaster ride in the past year and is only now returning to its May 2023 peak, according to analytics firm Similarweb, opens new tab, and the AI company is under pressure to expand its user base...MoreLeaked Deck Reveals How OpenAI Is Pitching Publisher PartnershipsOpenAI's Preferred Publisher Program offers media companies licensing dealsBy Mark StenbergMark your calendar for Mediaweek, October 29-30 in New York City. We'll unpack the biggest shifts shaping the future of media—from tv to retail media to tech—and how marketers can prep to stay ahead. Register with early-bird rates before sale ends!The generative artificial intelligence firm OpenAI has been pitching partnership opportunities to news publishers through an initiative called the Preferred Publishers Program, according to a deck obtained by ADWEEK and interviews with four industry executives.OpenAI has been courting premium publishers dating back to July 2023, when it struck a licensing agreement with the Associated Press. It has since inked public partnerships with Axel Springer, The Financial Times, Le Monde, Prisa and Dotdash Meredith, although it has declined to share the specifics of any of its deals.A representative for OpenAI disputed the accuracy of the information in the deck, which is more than three months old. The gen AI firm also negotiates deals on a per-publisher basis, rather than structuring all of its deals uniformly, the representative said.“We are engaging in productive conversations and partnerships with many news publishers around the world,” said a representative for OpenAI. “Our confidential documents are for discussion purposes only and ADWEEK's reporting contains a number of mischaracterizations and outdated information.”Nonetheless, the leaked deck reveals the basic structure of the partnerships OpenAI is proposing to media companies, as well as the incentives it is offering for their collaboration.Details from the pitch deckThe Preferred Publisher Program has five primary components, according to the deck…..Lots MoreA Revolutionary Model.JOHN ELLIS, MAY 09, 20241. Google DeepMind:Inside every plant, animal and human cell are billions of molecular machines. They're made up of proteins, DNA and other molecules, but no single piece works on its own. Only by seeing how they interact together, across millions of types of combinations, can we start to truly understand life's processes.In a paper published in Nature, we introduce AlphaFold 3, a revolutionary model that can predict the structure and interactions of all life's molecules with unprecedented accuracy. For the interactions of proteins with other molecule types we see at least a 50% improvement compared with existing prediction methods, and for some important categories of interaction we have doubled prediction accuracy.We hope AlphaFold 3 will help transform our understanding of the biological world and drug discovery. Scientists can access the majority of its capabilities, for free, through our newly launched AlphaFold Server, an easy-to-use research tool. To build on AlphaFold 3's potential for drug design, Isomorphic Labs is already collaborating with pharmaceutical companies to apply it to real-world drug design challenges and, ultimately, develop new life-changing treatments for patients. (Sources: blog.google, nature.com)2. Quanta magazine:Deep learning is a flavor of machine learning that's loosely inspired by the human brain. These computer algorithms are built using complex networks of informational nodes (called neurons) that form layered connections with one another. Researchers provide the deep learning network with training data, which the algorithm uses to adjust the relative strengths of connections between neurons to produce outputs that get ever closer to training examples. In the case of protein artificial intelligence systems, this process leads the network to produce better predictions of proteins' shapes based on their amino-acid sequence data.AlphaFold2, released in 2021, was a breakthrough for deep learning in biology. It unlocked an immense world of previously unknown protein structures, and has already become a useful tool for researchers working to understand everything from cellular structures to tuberculosis. It has also inspired the development of additional biological deep learning tools. Most notably, the biochemist David Baker and his team at the University of Washington in 2021 developed a competing algorithm called RoseTTAFold, which like AlphaFold2 predicts protein structures from sequence data…The true impact of these tools won't be known for months or years, as biologists begin to test and use them in research. And they will continue to evolve. What's next for deep learning in molecular biology is “going up the biological complexity ladder,” Baker said, beyond even the biomolecule complexes predicted by AlphaFold3 and RoseTTAFold All-Atom. But if the history of protein-structure AI can predict the future, then these next-generation deep learning models will continue to help scientists reveal the complex interactions that make life happen. Read the rest. (Sources: quantamagazine.org, doi.org, sites.uw.edu)An AI-controlled fighter jet took the Air Force leader for a historic ride. What that means for warAn experimental F-16 fighter jet has taken Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall on a history-making flight controlled by artificial intelligence and not a human pilot. (AP Video by Eugene Garcia and Mike Pesoli)BY TARA COPPUpdated 5:40 PM PDT, May 3, 2024EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — With the midday sun blazing, an experimental orange and white F-16 fighter jet launched with a familiar roar that is a hallmark of U.S. airpower. But the aerial combat that followed was unlike any other: This F-16 was controlled by artificial intelligence, not a human pilot. And riding in the front seat was Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall.AI marks one of the biggest advances in military aviation since the introduction of stealth in the early 1990s, and the Air Force has aggressively leaned in. Even though the technology is not fully developed, the service is planning for an AI-enabled fleet of more than 1,000 unmanned warplanes, the first of them operating by 2028.It was fitting that the dogfight took place at Edwards Air Force Base, a vast desert facility where Chuck Yeager broke the speed of sound and the military has incubated its most secret aerospace advances. Inside classified simulators and buildings with layers of shielding against surveillance, a new test-pilot generation is training AI agents to fly in war. Kendall traveled here to see AI fly in real time and make a public statement of confidence in its future role in air combat.“It's a security risk not to have it. At this point, we have to have it,” Kendall said in an interview with The Associated Press after he landed. The AP, along with NBC, was granted permission to witness the secret flight on the condition that it would not be reported until it was complete because of operational security concerns.The AI-controlled F-16, called Vista, flew Kendall in lightning-fast maneuvers at more than 550 miles an hour that put pressure on his body at five times the force of gravity. It went nearly nose to nose with a second human-piloted F-16 as both aircraft raced within 1,000 feet of each other, twisting and looping to try force their opponent into vulnerable positions.At the end of the hourlong flight, Kendall climbed out of the cockpit grinning. He said he'd seen enough during his flight that he'd trust this still-learning AI with the ability to decide whether or not to launch weapons in war.There's a lot of opposition to that idea. Arms control experts and humanitarian groups are deeply concerned that AI one day might be able to autonomously drop bombs that kill people without further human consultation, and they are seeking greater restrictions on its use.“There are widespread and serious concerns about ceding life-and-death decisions to sensors and software,” the International Committee of the Red Cross has warned. Autonomous weapons “are an immediate cause of concern and demand an urgent, international political response.”Kendall said there will always be human oversight in the system when weapons are used.Sources: Mistral AI raising at a $6B valuation, SoftBank ‘not in' but DST isIngrid Lunden8:50 AM PDT • May 9, 2024Paris-based Mistral AI, a startup working on open source large language models — the building block for generative AI services — has been raising money at a $6 billion valuation, three times its valuation in December, to compete more keenly against the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic, TechCrunch has learned from multiple sources. We understand from close sources that DST, along with General Catalyst and Lightspeed Venture Partners, are all looking to be a part of this round.DST — a heavyweight investor led by Yuri Milner that has been a notable backer of some of the biggest names in technology, including Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Spotify, WhatsApp, Alibaba and ByteDance — is a new name that has not been previously reported; GC and LSVP are both previous backers and their names were reported earlier today also by WSJ. The round is set to be around, but less than, $600 million, sources told TechCrunch.We can also confirm that one firm that has been mentioned a number of times — SoftBank — is not in the deal at the moment.“SoftBank is not in the frame,” a person close to SoftBank told TechCrunch. That also lines up with what our sources have been telling us since March, when this round first opened up, although it seems that not everyone is on the same page: Multiple reports had linked SoftBank to a Mistral investment since then.Mistral's round is based on a lot of inbound interest, sources tell us, and it has been in the works since March or possibly earlier, mere months after Mistral closed a $415 million round at a $2 billion valuation...MoreNews Of the WeekJack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at TwitterHe prefers Nostr even though it's “weird and hard to use.”Karissa Bell, Senior EditorThu, May 9, 2024 at 4:43 PM PDTJust in case there was any doubt about how Jack Dorsey really feels about Bluesky, the former Twitter CEO has offered new details on why he left the board and deleted his account on the service he helped kickstart. In a characteristically bizarre interview with Mike Solana of Founders Fund, Dorsey had plenty of criticism for Bluesky.In the interview, Dorsey claimed that Bluesky was “literally repeating all the mistakes” he made while running Twitter. The entire conversation is long and a bit rambly, but Dorsey's complaints seem to boil down to two issues:* He never intended Bluesky to be an independent company with its own board and stock and other vestiges of a corporate entity (Bluesky spun out of Twitter as a public benefit corporation in 2022.) Instead, his plan was for Twitter to be the first client to take advantage of the open source protocol. Bluesky created.* The fact that Blueksy has some form of content moderation and has occasionally banned users for things like using racial slurs in their usernames.“People started seeing Bluesky as something to run to, away from Twitter,” Dorsey said. “It's the thing that's not Twitter, and therefore it's great. And Bluesky saw this exodus of people from Twitter show up, and it was a very, very common crowd. … But little by little, they started asking Jay and the team for moderation tools, and to kick people off. And unfortunately they followed through with it. That was the second moment I thought, uh, nope. This is literally repeating all the mistakes we made as a company.”Dorsey also confirmed that he is financially backing Nostr, another decentralized Twitter-like service popular among some crypto enthusiasts and run by an anonymous founder. “I know it's early, and Nostr is weird and hard to use, but if you truly believe in censorship resistance and free speech, you have to use the technologies that actually enable that, and defend your rights,” Dorsey said.A lot of this isn't particularly surprising. If you've followed Dorsey's public comments over the last couple years, he's repeatedly said that Twitter's “original sin” was being a company that would be beholden to advertisers and other corporate interests. It's why he backed Elon Musk's takeover of the company. (Not coincidentally, Dorsey still has about $1 billion of his personal wealth invested in the company now known as X.) He's also been very clear that he made many of Twitter's most consequential moderation decisions reluctantly.Unsurprisingly, Dorsey's comments weren't well-received on Bluesky. In a lengthy thread, Bluesky's protocol engineer Paul Frazee said that Twitter was supposed to to be the AT Protocol's “first client” but that “Elon killed that straight dead” after he took over the company. “That entire company was frozen by the prolonged acquisition, and the agreement quickly ended when Elon took over,” Frazee said. “It was never going to happen. Also: unmoderated spaces are a ridiculous idea. We created a shared network for competing moderated spaces to exist. Even if somebody wanted to make an unmoderated ATProto app, I guess they could? Good luck with the app stores and regulators and users, I guess.”While Dorsey was careful not to criticize Musk directly, he was slightly less enthusiastic than when he said that Musk would be the one to “extend the light of consciousness” by taking over Twitter. Dorsey noted that, while he used to fight government requests to take down accounts, Musk takes “the other path” and generally complies. “Elon will fight in the way he fights, and I appreciate that, but he could certainly be compromised,” Dorsey said.FTX crypto fraud victims to get their money back — plus interestPaul Sawers2:53 AM PDT • May 8, 2024Bankruptcy lawyers representing customers impacted by the dramatic crash of cryptocurrency exchange FTX 17 months ago say that the vast majority of victims will receive their money back — plus interest.The news comes six months after FTX co-founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) was found guilty on seven counts related to fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering, with some $8 billion of customers' funds going missing. SBF was hit with a 25-year prison sentence in March and ordered to pay $11 billion in forfeiture. The crypto mogul filed an appeal last month that could last years.RestructuringAfter filing for bankruptcy in late 2022, SBF stood down and U.S. attorney John J. Ray III was brought in as CEO and “chief restructuring officer,” charged with overseeing FTX's reorganization. Shortly after taking over, Ray said in testimony that despite some of the audits that had been done previously at FTX, he didn't “trust a single piece of paper in this organization.” In the months that followed, Ray and his team set about tracking the missing funds, with some $8 billion placed in real estate, political donations, and VC investments — including a $500 million investment in AI company Anthropic before the generative AI boom, which the FTX estate managed to sell earlier this year for $884 million.Initially, it seemed unlikely that investors would recoup much, if any, of their money, but signs in recent months suggested that good news might be on the horizon, with progress made on clawing back cash via various investments FTX had made, as well as from executives involved with the company.We now know that 98% of FTX creditors will receive 118% of the value of their FTX-stored assets in cash, while the other creditors will receive 100% — plus “billions in compensation for the time value of their investments,” according to a press release issued by the FTX estate today.In total, FTX says that it will be able to distribute between $14.5 billion and $16.3 billion in cash, which includes assets currently under control of entities, including chapter 11 debtors, liquidators, the Securities Commission of the Bahamas, the U.S. Department of Justice, among various other parties.Apple's Final Cut Camera lets filmmakers connect four cameras at onceHaje Jan Kamps7:38 AM PDT • May 7, 2024The latest version of Final Cut Pro introduces a new feature to speed up your shoot: Live Multicam. It's a bold move from Apple, transforming your iPad into a multicam production studio, enabling creatives to connect and preview up to four cameras all at once, all in one place. From the command post, directors can remotely direct each video angle and dial in exposure, white balance, focus and more, all within the Final Cut Camera app.The new companion app lets users connect multiple iPhones or iPads (presumably using the same protocols as the Continuity Camera feature launched a few years ago). Final Cut Pro automatically transfers and syncs each Live Multicam angle so you can seamlessly move from production to editing.Final Cut Pro has existed in the iPad universe for a while — but when paired with a brand new M4 processor, it becomes a video editing experience much closer to what you might expect on a desktop video editing workstation. The speed is 2x faster than with the old M1 processors, Apple says. One way that shows up is that the new iPad supports up to four times more streams of ProRes RAW than M1.The company also introduced external project support, making it possible to edit projects directly from an external drive, leveraging the fast Thunderbolt connection of iPad Pro.Startup of the WeekExclusive: Wayve co-founder Alex Kendall on the autonomous future for cars and robotsMike Butcher, 7:58 AM PDT • May 7, 2024U.K.-based autonomous vehicle startup Wayve started life as a software platform loaded into a tiny electric “car” called Renault Twizy. Festooned with cameras, the company's co-founders and PhD graduates, Alex Kendall and Amar Shah, tuned the deep-learning algorithms powering the car's autonomous systems until they'd got it to drive around the medieval city unaided.No fancy Lidar cameras or radars were needed. They suddenly realized they were on to something.Fast-forward to today and Wayve, now an AI model company, has raised a $1.05 billion Series C funding round led by SoftBank, NVIDIA and Microsoft. That makes this the UK's largest AI fundraise to date, and among the top 20 AI fundraises globally. Even Meta's head of AI, Yann LeCun, invested in the company when it was young.Wayve now plans to sell its autonomous driving model to a variety of auto OEMs as well as to makers of new autonomous robots.In an exclusive interview, I spoke to Alex Kendall, co-founder and CEO of Wayve, about how the company has been training the model, the new fundraise, licensing plans, and the wider self-driving market.(Note: The following interview has been edited for length and clarity)TechCrunch: What tipped the balance to attain this level of funding?..Full InterviewX of the Week This is a public episode. 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The Kenneth Rainin Foundation just announced this year's fellows. Today, we meet one of them, Dr. Ayodele “WordSlanger” Nzinga. Then, we visit a bookstore that's founded on a mission to serve the community. And, a reading from Berkeley author Adam Mansbach.
Writer Murewa Ayodele and artist Dotun Akande joins the show to talk about their careers, collaboration, and current Oni Press series, Akogun: Brutalizer of Gods. Ayodele and Akande discuss the launch of their new book, figuring out who and what to listen to, how they became comic readers, their influences, their path to comics, computer science, print versus digital, Akande's path to becoming an artist, how Akogun came to be, their own take on gods, the oversized nature of the book, the book's structure, the variant covers, how their goals have changed, and more.
Dotun Bamisaiye moved to Canada long before moving to the Great White North became a thing. Back then, he would be the only one speaking Yoruba on his train ride to work. Today, he says the train ride hosts a medley of Pidgin, Yoruba, Igbo, and other African languages. He joined me on The Newcomers Podcast to chat about:* Leaving Nigeria reluctantly* The black nod* The danger of a single story* Finding a job when most Canadian employers weren't looking to hire Nigerians* How best to prep for the Canadian tax season and more. ResourcesIf you're looking to do your taxes, Dotun is a great guy to speak to about the best tax planning and compliance approach. He also offers a personal tax course for people new to Canada who want to understand Canadian taxation and how to plan for income tax. * Canadian Tax in 60 MinsEnjoy!Thanks for listening to The Newcomers Podcast. If this episode inspired you, please do me a huge favor and tell one person to subscribe. You can also share it with an immigrant who might find it helpful.Did you read it? We launched a new section called Restart, which features long reads about the good, the bad, and the human side of starting afresh in a new country.We've also launched a section called The Pantry, a collection of tips, how-tos, stories, and jokes about the immigrant experience.If you got this email in error or no longer wish to receive emails from The Newcomers Podcast, Substack has a sweet and easy way to unsubscribe. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thenewcomerspod.com
Embark on an enlightening path with Rashid Ayodele as we journey from his engineering days to the pinnacle of entrepreneurial success. Witness firsthand the resilience required to leap into the unknown, illustrating how setbacks like layoffs and eBay's dismissal transformed into stepping stones towards financial independence. Rashid's narrative underscores a fundamental truth – the fusion of innovation and determination can unlock doors to prosperity. Our conversation peels back the layers of his online sales ventures, international drop shipping successes, and the strategic pivot that reshaped his career trajectory, setting a new standard for aspiring entrepreneurs.As your guide, I share the eye-opening potential that real estate investment and short-term rentals hold. We dissect the tactical shift to Airbnb, unraveling the secrets of multi-unit properties and the crucial timing of market entry. Rashid and I delve into the art of scaling a real estate portfolio, recounting the hurdles overcome and the astute tactics that have weathered economic storms. Our exchange illuminates the savvy investor's playbook – leveraging recessions, honing property selection, and striking gold through persistence and calculated risk-taking.Finally, we address the operational finesse of rental management, from dynamic pricing strategies to the nuances of co-hosting. We reveal how manual pricing tweaks can significantly uplift occupancy rates and why compact units are the unsung heroes of high turnover. Rashid candidly shares his property management trials and triumphs, equipping you with the knowledge to navigate this terrain confidently. As we close our chapter, we express immense gratitude for Rashid's wisdom and hint at intriguing future episodes that promise to enrich the tapestry of short-term rental sagas. Join our community for this profound mastermind session, where invaluable insights await.Tune in to the Ekabo Home Financial Freedom Mastermind for the latest in real estate and investing. NEW EPISODE EVERY WEDNESDAY Our Links -Financial Freedom Mastermind Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/53083... - Peer Space Host Referral Link https://www.peerspace.com/referrals/g... - AirBNB Host Referral Link https://www.airbnb.com/r/niyia41 - Ekabo Home Network (IG, Youtube, Email) https://linktr.ee/ekabohome Niyi Adewole is a licensed realtor in Georgia, brokered by EXP Realty. Feel free to reach out at Niyi.Adewole@exprealty.com if you would like to work with an investor friendly real estate agent.
David sits down with friend and Radford University student, Nifemi Ayodele, in this first episode of the pod's new "Gen Z on Justice" series, in which the guys will discuss where justice conversations are headed from the perspective of Gen Z-ers themselves. In this episode, Nifemi shares her perspective on how Gen Z is perceived by older generations, what Gen Z has to offer, reasons for hope moving into 2024, and why she thinks it's important to have justice conversations. Check out our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/raciallyspeaking
In 2022 President Biden signed the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 into law. This law provides the Department of Commerce with $50 billion for a suite of programs. These programs are to strengthen and revitalize the U.S. position in chip manufacturing, semiconductor research, development, and manufacturing. In this episode of the GovFuture podcast The post Reinvesting in US Chip Manufacturing and the AI Impact: Interview with Ayodele Okeowo, CHIPS [GovFuture Podcast] appeared first on GovFuture.
Ayodele Odubela is an AI Policy Advisor, a Data Science expert, and an educator in responsible AI! In this episode her and Roger discuss the role of security and ethics in the realm of AI. They discuss what "Responsible AI" really means and what we need to do to make sure this new tool humanity has is used with accountability. Resources: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayodeleodubela/ https://twitter.com/ayodele_odubela Intro music attribution: Artist - MaxKoMusic
This week's episode is focused on Feyi Ayodele, the co-founder and CEO of CancerIQ, a precision health company designed for physicians to help their patients with monitoring cancer risk and prevention. Ayodele talked about she came up with the startup idea while hiking Mount Kilimanjaro with her mother. She also talked about how she approached fundraising as a former VC herself and what it was like selling CancerIQ to healthcare organizations and hospitals.Found posts every Friday. Subscribe on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts to be alerted when new episodes drop. Check out the other TechCrunch podcasts: Equity, The TechCrunch Podcast and Chain Reaction.Subscribe to Found to hear more stories from founders each
Ayodele Harrison is a leadership development coach and racial equity practitioner. He has over two decades of experience teaching and leading public, private, and international schools. Ayodele spent six years as an administrator in a teacher residency program. Ayodele is currently the Senior Partner of Education at CommunityBuild Ventures (CBV) - a pro-Black solutions-focused firm committed to eliminating racial disparities by developing powerful, impactful racial equity-driven leaders and organizations. Ayodele's primary role with CBV is leading their signature initiative, Black Male Educators Talk (BMEsTalk). This initiative offers a suite of culturally affirming in-person and virtual affinity spaces and leadership development programs to Black Male Educators living in the US and several international cities around the globe. Ayodele seeks to inspire and equip Black Male Educators to live well and engage in transformational action that improves students' lives. Ayodele Harrison is from Seattle, Washington. He holds a BS and MS in Civil Engineering from Howard University and the University of California, Berkeley, respectively. Ayodele is married to Natasha, and they have two beautifully brilliant children, Ajani and Ifetayo. How to Connect with Ayodele Email: ayodele@communitybuildventures.com Website: https://bmestalk.com/ Twitter:https://twitter.com/BMEsTalk Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bmestalk/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BMEsTalk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayodeleharrison/ How to Connect with Benita G. LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/benita-c-gordon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theeducationconciergepodcast Website: https://www.podpage.com/the-education-concierge-1/ Youtube: https://youtube.com/@chatwiththeeduconcierge --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/educationconcierge/message
This week, guest-host Nate Chinen talks to Ayodele Casel, an award-winning tap dancer and one of the choreographers for Funny Girl on broadway. In the interview, Ayodele explains how she progressed quickly in the mid to late 90's even though she didn't take up tap dancing until college. She also discusses her award-winning film Chasing Magic and her one-woman show While I Have the Floor, in which she dances to the rhythms of her own spoken word performance. After the interview, Nate and co-host Isaac Butler talk about the ways artists can honor the history of their discipline. In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, Ayodele shares her favorite tap dancing clips on YouTube. Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-9675. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you'll also be supporting the work we do here on Working. Sign up now at slate.com/workingplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, guest-host Nate Chinen talks to Ayodele Casel, an award-winning tap dancer and one of the choreographers for Funny Girl on broadway. In the interview, Ayodele explains how she progressed quickly in the mid to late 90's even though she didn't take up tap dancing until college. She also discusses her award-winning film Chasing Magic and her one-woman show While I Have the Floor, in which she dances to the rhythms of her own spoken word performance. After the interview, Nate and co-host Isaac Butler talk about the ways artists can honor the history of their discipline. In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, Ayodele shares her favorite tap dancing clips on YouTube. Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-9675. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you'll also be supporting the work we do here on Working. Sign up now at slate.com/workingplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, guest-host Nate Chinen talks to Ayodele Casel, an award-winning tap dancer and one of the choreographers for Funny Girl on broadway. In the interview, Ayodele explains how she progressed quickly in the mid to late 90's even though she didn't take up tap dancing until college. She also discusses her award-winning film Chasing Magic and her one-woman show While I Have the Floor, in which she dances to the rhythms of her own spoken word performance. After the interview, Nate and co-host Isaac Butler talk about the ways artists can honor the history of their discipline. In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, Ayodele shares her favorite tap dancing clips on YouTube. Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-9675. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you'll also be supporting the work we do here on Working. Sign up now at slate.com/workingplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, guest-host Nate Chinen talks to Ayodele Casel, an award-winning tap dancer and one of the choreographers for Funny Girl on broadway. In the interview, Ayodele explains how she progressed quickly in the mid to late 90's even though she didn't take up tap dancing until college. She also discusses her award-winning film Chasing Magic and her one-woman show While I Have the Floor, in which she dances to the rhythms of her own spoken word performance. After the interview, Nate and co-host Isaac Butler talk about the ways artists can honor the history of their discipline. In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, Ayodele shares her favorite tap dancing clips on YouTube. Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-9675. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you'll also be supporting the work we do here on Working. Sign up now at slate.com/workingplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We take a deep dive into the mayor of Oakland's proposed budget, a day after the Oakland City Council had its first meeting about the current budget cycle. The city is facing a $300 million dollar deficit and every department has been cut – except for the police. We are joined by Ayodele Nzinga, Oakland's poet laureate and a multi-hyphenated artist, actress, producing director, playwright, poet, dramaturg, performance consultant, educator, and community advocate; we're also joined by James Burch, Deputy Director for the Anti Police-Terror Project, an organization that seeks to end police violence in Black and Brown communities; and lastly, we speak with Kijani Edwards, the Oakland Director of The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) Action, a grassroots, member-led, statewide community organization working with more than 15,000 members across California. All three are members of the People's Budget Coalition. Then we go to the US South to get updates from regional grassroots organizer Marquell Bridges on the latest in killings by police officers throughout the region. Our Resistance in Residence Artist this week is writer, poet, educator, and Executive Director of Youth Speaks, Michelle “Mush” Lee. Learn more about Youth Speaks: https://youthspeaks.org/ —- Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post Oakland Mayor's Budget Maintains Police Funding Amid Major Deficit w/ Ayodele Nzinga, James Burch & Kijani Edwards appeared first on KPFA.
Her Story - Envisioning the Leadership Possibilities in Healthcare
Meet Our Guest: Feyi Ayodele is the co-founder and CEO of CancerIQ, a fast-growing precision health platform that allows providers to identify, evaluate and manage entire patient populations based on individual genetic risk factors. In 2013, Ayodele co-founded CancerIQ after taking a sabbatical from the finance world to work alongside her mother, renowned medical oncologist Olufunmilayo Olopade, in the Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics at University of Chicago. Key Insights: CancerIQ's mission is to make sure more people have access to the right genetic testing services and the right preventive care so cancer can be caught early or the risk can be eliminated altogether. ● From Finance to Healthcare. After starting her career in financial services, she went to Wharton for business school and then felt compelled to take the entrepreneurship path in healthcare.● Early Detection. CancerIQ makes it easy for health systems to personalize cancer prevention and early detection. The company's mission is to make genetic information more accessible and actionable, to empower patients and clinicians in the fight against cancer.● Be a Case Study. Feyi shares insights on the importance of being a successful case study for underrepresented groups in leadership positions. This episode is hosted by CarlaDenise Edward, Ph.D., Strategic Advisor.Relevant Links: Read more about FeyiAbout CancerIQ
For most cancers, Black Americans have the highest death rate and shortest survival of any patient population.And access to genetic testing is key to eliminating this disparity.Feyi Olopade Ayodele is Cofounder and CEO of CancerIQ, a company on a bold mission to end cancer as we know it by giving providers and health systems access to the latest innovations in early cancer detection and prevention.Under Feyi's leadership, CancerIQ has grown its provider network to over 200 locations across the US and established a robust ecosystem of leading diagnostic and genomic testing vendors.On this episode of HLTH Matters, Feyi joins host Dr. Jessica Shepherd to explain how she built CancerIQ to solve for the disparity in access to genetic testing by making it part of everyone's primary care visit.Feyi describes how CancerIQ helps patients initiate conversations around cancer prevention with their providers and gives providers the right precision prevention program for each patient. Listen in for Feyi's insight on the emotional journey associated with a cancer diagnosis and learn how CancerIQ is helping African American and rural patient populations prevent cancer or detect it in its earliest stages. Topics CoveredDisparities in breast cancer outcomes between Black women and other patient populationsWhy Feyi built CancerIQ to solve for the disparity in access to genetic testingHow CancerIQ makes it easy for providers to navigate patients to the right precision cancer prevention programWhy Feyi encourages primary genetic care vs. specialty genetic careHow CancerIQ helps patients initiate conversations on cancer prevention with their providersHow CancerIQ is closing the gap for African American and rural patient populationsWhat CancerIQ does to help patients adhere to a cancer prevention planHow CancerIQ recognizes the emotional journey associated with a cancer diagnosisFeyi's vision to make CancerIQ part of everyone's preventative care visit and detect cancer in its earliest stages Connect with Feyi Olopade AyodeleCancerIQ Connect with Dr. Jessica ShepherdHLTHDr. Shepherd on TwitterDr. Shepherd on LinkedIn ResourcesNCCN GuidelinesSmall Talk Baby Podcast
For Ayodele Casel tap dancing is magic. As a young high school student, she dreamed of one day dancing like Ginger Rogers as she recreated Ginger's moves in her bedroom But it wasn't until Ayodele Casel was a sophomore at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts that she took her first tap dancing class. That was her entry point into the art form which would eventually lead to a more than 20-year career as a professional tap dancer. As a Black and Puerto Rican woman, Ayodele Casel didn't see herself reflected in the mainstream image of tap dancers because the form has been largely whitewashed through systematic racism. For that reason, she works tirelessly to remind her audiences that tap is deeply rooted in Black art and culture. In this episode of “How I Made It,” Ayodele takes us through her tap journey and reclaims tap dancing as a Black art form. This episode originally aired in November of 2021.
Ryan and Jasmine bring you all the latest in new comics hitting shelves this week including our picks of CAPTAIN AMERICA: SENTINEL OF LIBERTY #10, STAR WARS: HIDDEN EMPIRE #4, VENOM #17, and more!Plus, we hand out our weekly Quote of the Week award named after a phrase pulled directly from an issue in this week's pull list! Think you know which issue this week's name came from? Let us know by sending us an email at PullList@marvel.com or by tweeting at us using #MarvelsPullList! Just make sure to mark it “Okay to read”! If you're first, we'll send you a free Marvel digital comic of your choice! For more information and full quote of the week contest rules, go to marvel.com/pulllistquoterules. Terms and conditions apply, open to US Residents 18 and up.And if you're not the first one to find the quote, we've got yet another way for you to win! We've teamed up with Marvel Insider to score some Marvel Insider points just for listening to the podcast! After you listen to this show, go to marvel.com/insider and look for the Marvel's Pull List Quote of the Week activity. You'll be asked to identify the correct Quote of the Week from the four choices … which is going to be easy for you because you know the correct answer! Choose correctly, and you'll earn 500 Marvel Insider points! Marvel Insider is open to U.S. residents 18+ only. Terms apply. Visit marvel.com/insider to join or sign in to answer Marvel's Pull List Quote of the Week.And finally, for this week's reading club, Writer Murewa Ayodele and Artist Dotun Akande (Moon Knight: Black, White, & Blood, I AM IRON MAN) join us for a discussion on Doctor Strange: The Best Defense! What we're reading with Murewa Ayodele and Dotun Akande:Doctor Strange: The Best Defense (2018) #1Writer:Gerry DugganArtist:Greg SmallwoodLetterer:VC's Cory PetitAssistant Editor: Alanna SmithEditor: Tom BrevoortAs always, shout out your local comic shop or send us your questions or comments by emailing us at pulllist@marvel.com or tweet using #MarvelsPullList. Make sure to mark it "Okay to read!" Follow us at @agentm,@jasmiestNew comics this week:CAPTAIN AMERICA: SENTINEL OF LIBERTY #10COSMIC GHOST RIDER #1GHOST RIDER #12HALLOWS' EVE #1I AM IRON MAN #1MURDERWORLD: GAME OVER #1ROGUE & GAMBIT #1SPIDER-GWEN: SHADOW CLONES #1SPIDER-MAN #6SPIDER-MAN: UNFORGIVEN #1STAR WARS #32STAR WARS: HAN SOLO & CHEWBACCA #10STAR WARS: HIDDEN EMPIRE #4STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC - THE BLADE #3STAR WARS: THE MANDALORIAN #8VENOM #17X-FORCE #38Collections:DEFENDERS: BEYONDETERNALS: A HISTORY WRITTEN IN BLOODIMMORTAL IRON FIST & THE IMMORTAL WEAPONS OMNIBUSX-MEN BY GERRY DUGGAN VOL. 3X-MEN: THE ANIMATED SERIES - THE FURTHER ADVENTURESNew Weekly Infinity Comics: 2/27/2023X-MEN UNLIMITED #762/28/2023SPIDER-VERSE UNLIMITED #39AVENGERS UNLIMITED #353/1/2023MARVEL'S VOICES: MOON GIRL INFINITY COMIC #42 3/2/2023LOVE UNLIMITED: DEADPOOL LOVES THE MARVEL UNIVERSE INFINITY COMIC #39 3/3/2023ALLIGATOR LOKI INFINITY COMIC #20New to Marvel Unlimited:ALIEN #3ALL-OUT AVENGERS #3AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #14AVENGERS FOREVER #11DAREDEVIL #5DEADLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN #2DEFENDERS: BEYOND #5DOCTOR STRANGE: FALL SUNRISE #1GENIS-VELL: CAPTAIN MARVEL #5MIDNIGHT SUNS #3STAR WARS: REVELATIONS #1STAR WARS: YODA #1X-FORCE #34X-MEN #17
For the month of February, we are publishing flashback clips from some of our wonderful past episodes. Please a take some time enjoy (again) the full episodes from these founders.Season 4 of Founders Unfound starts in March! Wole Ayodele is Co-Founder and CEO of Fincra (formerly Fliqpay), a startup that makes it easy for fintech firms, platforms and global businesses to accept local and international payments through an easy-to-integrate API and merchant portal. Original Episode: No.14, June 2020foundersunfound.com/fliqpay-founder-profile-podcast MORE ON WOLE AND FINCRAWole:twitter.com/AyowoleOAlinkedin.com/in/woleayodele/Fliqpay Pitch on Techstars Demo DayFincra:fincra.comlinkedin.com/company/fincrahqtwitter.com/FincraHQinstagram.com/fincrahqFollow Founders Unfound: Like and share - help us grow!#blackfounders #founderstories #foundersafricandescent #bhm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep Akin Ayodele's journey to the National Football League was anything but easy. The Dallas, Texas native overcame a multitude of obstacles to become a three-time All-Big Ten performer for Purdue University on his way to finishing second on the Boilermakers all-time sack list with 29 in just three seasons. A third-round draft choice by the Jacksonville Jaguars, Ayodele played nine NFL seasons at linebacker, including 2008 and 2009 with the Miami Dolphins. Ayodele retired following the 2010 season and has been every bit as impactful in corporate America, in the community through his Dreambuilders Foundation, and most importantly, at home with his wife and daughters. Contributors to this episode include Sean “DJ Prec” Todd and Dolphins Productions. Theme song created and performed by The Honorable SoLo D.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sufficiently Black talks about Halloween, going to Carnival, and interactions with Caribbean men (interview starts around 00:18:00). The trio is joined by influencer Bukola Ayodele who discusses the pros and cons of Black people working in tech, her untraditional career path, and journey into personal finance. Bukola also shares how she started to gain a large following as an influencer and how she is actively fighting pay disparity in the influencing industry. Bukola on CNBC Make It: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ6u4tCi4cY Bukola on YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/Bukola1 Join us on Discord!: discord.gg/d3RrepdTdQ Email: sufficientlyblackpodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @sufficientlyblk Instagram: @sufficinetlyblk YouTube: https://bit.ly/3nutxC2 Audience Survey: bit.ly/2vOYtH9
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