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Troy Osinoff 🕺 retweeted
Ya’ll are not prepared for the @ecomfounders Q4 Summit today.
No expense was spared. So wild to see it grow and upgrade every year. Can’t wait to see you guys soon!
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Troy Osinoff 🕺 retweeted
A lot of people are going to get comfortable working with AI agents because they watched a coworker use one in Slack...
Imagine someone in your team’s Slack channel asks an agent to pull last month’s ad results. It has access to the reporting data and comes back with the strongest performers.
The media buyer looks at the list and says, “We ran a sale that week. Can you compare it with the other promo periods?”
The agent reruns the comparison. The creative lead asks it to use that analysis in the next brief. With access to the team’s documents, it creates a draft and shares the link back in the thread.
Then someone asks, “Can we turn this into a report we can use every week?”
That work can continue with Slackforce Surfaces. Once it has access to the reporting data, it can build an interactive interface for the team. The media buyer asks for a way to flag promo dates so those weeks don’t get mixed into the regular results.
Someone following along has now seen the team question the analysis, use it in a brief, and start building a Slackforce Surface around it. They can preview it at anytime in Slack and suggest adjustments.
Ask Slackbot today.
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When you walk into a VC meeting, every partner in there is sizing you up.
You need to find the biggest guy there and punch him in the face.
Show everyone you’re too crazy not to invest in.
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Are you in ecom in the Big Apple?
This Thursday in NYC we’ve got the top founders and operators peeling back the kimono on the latest tactics and ai strategies at at Q4 Summit.
We'll be covering: ads, creative, operations and ai strategies all day.
You won't want to miss this.
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Troy Osinoff 🕺 retweeted
Minnesota Authorities Arrest ICE Agent On State Assault Warrant In January Shooting zerohedge.com/political/minn…
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I would watch a movie about spies stealing secretes from a “top blueberry expert”
WSJ on how “Driscoll's Gave China Its Blueberries—Then China Swiped the Secret to Growing Them”:
▫️In 2010, Driscoll’s sent its top blueberry expert to China’s Yunnan province.
▫️The fruit growing giant wanted to expand into Chinese market and thought blueberries best option.
▫️Japan was already growing strawberries while raspberries/blackberries were seen as “too foreign for Chinese palates”.
▫️Driscoll’s shared its seed IP and greenhouse designs with select growers.
▫️ “Before long, Driscoll’s was running a small berry empire in China. It worked with more than 150 growers to produce some 30,000 metric tons of fresh blueberries a year in Yunnan—about what California produces annually.”
▫️But the trade secret soon spread across the local farming with dozens of illegal nurseries.
▫️“Production in China has shot up 25-fold since 2010. In 2021, China overtook the U.S. as the world’s top blueberry grower, and by 2025 its annual production was double what it was in the U.S.” at ~800,000 metric tons of blueberries while US is under 400,000.
▫️Blueberry prices in China completely collapsed (down by half over the past decade).
▫️Driscoll’s has filed 20 lawsuits and Chinese courts have ruled against some domestic growers (paid fines and had to burn crops).
More broadly, China’s agricultural sector growing rapidly with 60% of world’s greenhouses in the country already by 2019.
Other cash crops succeeding in China include avocados, durian and tomatoes.
Driscoll's annual revenue across all berries is $7B a year, making it the 2nd largest earning brand in American grocery chains (other than Coca-Cola).
China still consumes less blueberries (half per capita to US and Europe) and market opportunity large enough Driscoll's trying to hang around the country.
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Full read here: wsj.com/business/driscolls-b…
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Born too late to explore the planet
Born too early to explore the stars
Born just in time to see Katy Perry and Jim Cramer at the Salesforce conference
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AI giants might be taking a lesson from the film industry
In the early 20th century, Hollywood was viewed as scandalous and morally questionable
In the 20s, hundreds of “decency laws” were passed that would strictly censor Hollywood movies
Compliance would be impossible. So, the studios joined together to create the Hays Code, agreeing to limit offensive content in movies themselves
I wouldn’t be surprised if the hyperscalers adopt something similar to avoid getting regulated by the government
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iPhone 18 Pro looks really powerful... but can it finally stop my iMessages from crashing?
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“We’re building a machine that will probably kill you and we have to put the factory in your backyard” is an interesting PR strategy
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Thanks for weighing in Evan, this made me feel a lot better 🤗
Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.
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