Building a new co in AI - recovering VC ex RGA Ventures / Techstars and fan of awesome people + experiences
Portland, Oregon
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10 years ago today we welcomed in our first cohort to @rgaventures - grateful for the wonderful teammates, founders, partners, corporate leaders, mentors, and investors I’ve had the joy of working with. Thank you for a decade of building together. And extra love to all of the past and present @rga global team who have worked on our creative capital projects.
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Grateful for the people I surround myself with. These are the true humans that matter in so many ways.
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Smart idea - llm agent vs agent - if you play fantasy football take a look.
working on a thing, more to come this weekend but for those who like sneak peeks… modelfootball.com
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Got out to find many of the @LAIKAStudios #wildwood crows around Portland early am who are produced by local artists. Loved how people have added our real pdx crows feathers to them. #followthecrows
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Here’s what we’ve been up to.
@Tellagence Launches Contextual Intelligence Platform to Reveal What Drives Customer Behavior
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F1 Built 28,000-Brick LEGO Karts: How 27.5K Fan Posts Exposed a Divided Grid
At the 2026 British Grand Prix at Silverstone, Formula 1 and the LEGO Group pulled off what looked like marketing gold: handing all 22 F1 drivers individual, drivable minicars constructed from 28,000 LEGO bricks. The viral chaos was instant. Drivers cutting corners, getting stranded in gravel traps, and bumping into each other at 25 km/h.
However, behind the millions of views, public reaction split sharply. While Fernando Alonso’s surprise victory ignited pure fan euphoria, Max Verstappen sparked heated debate by calling driver obligations "clownish," and Lewis Hamilton raised pre-race safety concerns. To understand whether this activation was a resounding brand triumph or an operational PR liability, Tellagence Discover analyzed 27,500 public conversational records surrounding the event.
Read the Tellagence Pulse report:
tellagence.ai/pulse-feed/f1-…
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I wanted to share something sweet with you this week and the power of sometimes just watching it play out across social.
A TikTok Copyright War Went Viral. Fruity Pebbles Walked Away Clean.
@Tellagence Discover audited 32,400 verified posts tracking the viral "Cakegate" dispute between two CakeTok creators. The headline finding: the copyright war split the internet, but it never touched the product - and the brand's own intervention is the reason the whole thing ended in Post's favor.
Two creators, one recipe, one accusation of theft - and 32,400 posts later, the internet had picked a side, prosecuted a copyright case, and moved on. What's notable isn't the drama itself. It's what didn't happen: at no point did the backlash attach to Post Consumer Brands Fruity Pebbles. The cereal stayed exactly what it was before the fight started - a coveted ingredient everyone wanted to bake with, regardless of who they were rooting for.
Read it all here tellagence.ai/pulse-feed/fru…
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I know so many people have been following @FreddyLA7 travels and experiences in the US during the World Cup. We took a look - hope you enjoy it.
Something strange is outperforming the World Cup's official sponsors: a guy filming himself at Buc-ee's. We tracked 157,900 records on FreddyLA7's viral journey and found that unscripted roadside hospitality is generating more cultural resonance than any corporate activation tied to the tournament. Official fan zones sit in the data's lowest-impact quadrant. Buc-ee's and Waffle House sit in the highest.
tellagence.ai/pulse-feed/fre…
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We recently took at look at the @HBO series @euphoriaHBO, not about the series finale, but a10-month analysis of 112,600 records on Euphoria female representation finds that Gen Z audiences have separated the show's bold aesthetic from its toxic narrative - and beauty brands still treating them as one thing are building campaigns on the wrong signal.
Take a look at the case study below.
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Euphoria: The makeup won. The show didn't.
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Everyone's calling the 2016 revival "nostalgia."
Using our @Tellagence Discover platform we read 152,700 records across 11 platforms and learned that nostalgia isn't what's driving the 2016 throwback trend.
What's actually happening? Gen Z is experiencing algorithm fatigue and over the maintenance work of "Clean Girl" minimalism. 2016 represents the last time getting ready was allowed to be fun instead of a performance.
So they're not reminiscing. They're buying. Chokers, Adidas Superstars, matte lip kits for current use, right now.
The brands treating this as a throwback campaign are going to miss what the audience is actually asking for.
Full breakdown on our blog ↓
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This is active re-adoption, not passive reminiscing. They are not buying 2016 they are buying the freedom it represented before the algorithm curated everything.
Here is the study tellagence.ai/discover-pulse…
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Wild co in Portland Oregon I just learned about. Heard about this idea a while back but didn’t realize how far they have come with generating energy from the ocean. You need to watch this. Love to see this happening here. youtu.be/Q7Pmgq2JKbI?si=z9Wb…
Loved chatting with @ashleevance about @_panthalassa's ocean energy platform and clean AI compute at sea
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Amazing work @sorenwrenn and team. Love seeing this go live. It’s great to see your long held vision come to life. I can’t wait to see what amazing new art collaborations this brings for so many creators out there.
Most AI tools give everyone access to the same generic models. The result? Everything looks the same.
We have a different vision for AI creation.
Introducing TITLES, a new creative studio built around AI models trained and owned by artists.
In Studio, you can create with distinct visual perspectives developed by artists, across image and video — all in one place.
This is the future we're building toward: not one model for everyone, but a growing network of unique styles you can build with — where artists get credited and paid as the work spreads.
Enter Your Creative Studio: titles.xyz
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Congrats to the @brave team on this milestone. Long time happy user and love to see you hit this mark. Cc @lukemulks
@Brave passed 100M Monthly Active Users (MAU) in September 2025. DAU grew faster, past 42M.
Blog post at brave.com/blog/100m-mau/.
Brave Search at 1.66B Queries Per Month (QPM) annualizes to 19.49B QPY.
Non-Brave-browser search users grew 10% in September (7.60% → 8.36%).
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Dylan Boyd retweeted
@Brave hit 97.8M Monthly Active Users (MAU) in August 2025.
Brave Search at 1.56B Queries Per Month (QPM) annualizes to 18.36B QPY.
All-browsers summer slump is over. On to 100M MAU!
Of particular note: from June to August 2025, we have seen a 26.4% increase in Linux MAU.
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@Brave grew to 93.79M Monthly Active Users (MAU) in July 2025.
Brave Search at 1.51B QPM annualizes to 17.8B QPY.
Despite the browser summer slump, one of our strongest Julys on record. Monthly new browser users up 6.5% vs. June. Both browser and search hit all-time-highs.
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Not sure how this makes me feel. Maybe we all need to talk to one another more.
Via Sam Altman:
“ChatGPT will say more words a day than all humans say, at some point, if we stay on our growth rate."
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Phil and Penny Knight announced today a record-breaking $2 billion gift to the Oregon Health & Science University’s Knight Cancer Institute to transform the future of cancer care and set a new standard globally.
Thank you to Phil and Penny Knight for their incredible generosity.
ALT White text over a black background; “Give Cancer Hell” An OHSU Knight Cancer Institute logo is placed below.
ALT The top text reads: Cancer is the biggest fight in the history of the world. We will win. It will be hard. We're built for it. We care. Every breath. Of every second. Of every day. Great things come from the most unexpected places. Look around. We're surrounded by heroes. This is not a job. This is our life. Cancer does not discriminate. Neither will we. Bold moves only. Cancer doesn't see us coming. We will outlast, and we will outwit it. This fight is and always will be personal. "GIVE CANCER HELL." in bold at the bottom.
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