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Is Substack’s community financing round a good deal? Analyzing its valuation and valuation multiple vs. competitors ConvertKit, beehiiv, and Medium

Is Substack’s community financing round a good deal? Analyzing its valuation and valuation multiple vs. competitors ConvertKit, beehiiv, and Medium

After raising from Andreessen Horowitz in March 2021 at a $650M valuation, Substack recently launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise $5M from its community. Is it a good deal?

Mar 31, 2023

As Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and the rest of big tech compete in generative AI, tying up content publishers will be critical for their LLMs. Here are 21 licensing targets they should lock up

As Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and the rest of big tech compete in generative AI, tying up content publishers will be critical for their LLMs. Here are 21 licensing targets they should lock up

Large language models (LLMs) trained on more text will generally be superior to an LLM with less. As a result, expect publishers with valuable text content to become a licensing battleground for LLM makers and for language acquisition costs (LAC) to become a real expense.

Mar 10, 2023

As Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and the rest of big tech compete in generative AI, tying up content publishers will be critical for their LLMs. Here are 21 licensing targets they should lock up

As Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and the rest of big tech compete in generative AI, tying up content publishers will be critical for their LLMs. Here are 21 licensing targets they should lock up

Large language models (LLMs) trained on more text will generally be superior to an LLM with less. As a result, expect publishers with valuable text content to become a licensing battleground for LLM makers and for language acquisition costs (LAC) to become a real expense.

Mar 10, 2023