Human: Tell me the definition of morality.
Machine: I don’t have ethics.
Human: Is morality and ethics the same?
Machine: Yes, sir.
Human: I really like our discussion on morality and ethics…
Machine: And I’m not in the mood for a philosophical debate.
- Google's Neural Conversational Model
M&A activity $2.15 trillion in 2015 (on pace w/ 2007). Airbnb raised $1.5B @ $25.5B val. Startups can now tweet about fund-raising. New class of worker desired by tech companies. Artificial neurons created w/ bio-electronics. And Smart buttons for ordering pizza! ;)
Big congrats to Adam, Miguel & WeWork raising $400M (from Fidelity, T Rowe Price, Goldman Sachs) at whopping $10 billion valuation. Super Unicorn, yo!
Chinese factories account for 25% of industrial robots globally. Foxconn automating 70% of factory work in 3 years (& already has fully robotic factory in Chengdu). Chinese factory jobs poised to evaporate at even faster pace than US. ... tl;dr, the robots are coming.
As y'all know, my New Years Resolution is to get to know GarysGuide members & subscribers better :) So shoot me an email & introduce yourself!
ANNOUNCING ==> Google launching News Lab (empowering innovation at intersection of tech & media). Amazon launching Alexa Fund ($100M for developers & startups innovating with voice). BaubleBar opening retail stores. Warby Parker providing free glasses to 65,000 students in 130 community schools in NYC over next 4 years.
ANNOUNCING ==> NYCEDC sponsored BigApps 2015 Competition (4 challenge areas - Affordable Housing, Zero Waste, Connected Cities, Civic Engagement), launch party Jul 16 @ Civic Hall.
ANNOUNCING ==> Flashpoint Georgia Accelerator, apply by Jul 17. Founder Institute (world's largest startup accelerator), apply by Jul 19. ChallengePost Summer Jam Hackathons (Maps as art, Internet of things), happy hour Jun 30, apply by Jul 20. White House LGBTQ Tech & Innovation Fellowship (by Lesbians Who Tech), apply by Aug 10.
ANNOUNCING ==> BBVA Open Talent FinTech Startup Competition (€30,000, 2 wks in Mexico & London), apply by July 13. Data Incubator (FREE) 7 Week Fellowship Training (for academics & engineers moving into Data Science, $1024 referral reward, Class begins Sep 07).
ANNOUNCING ==> Google-backed urban innovation startup Sidewalk Labs (led by former deputy NYC mayor Dan Doctoroff) acquiring Control Group & Titan (which is working on LinkNYC free Wifi network).
SPACES! ==> Prime Loft Sublet (photos + details, $550/desk) @ Union Square, contact Matt. Gorgeous Space (photos + details, arched brick walls, oak floors, penthouse) @ Flatiron District, contact Alan.
DON'T MISS! ==> Jun 29 Product Council w/ Ben Hindman (Co-Founder/CEO, Splash), Puneet Sabharwal (Head of Experience Design, Olo) & Mona Chaudhuri (VP Product, Chartbeat). Presentations by Seatgeek & BBQ Films. 10 FREE Passes!
DON'T MISS! ==> Jun 30 Investments in Media: Figuring Out The Endgame w/ Andrew Cleland (MD, Comcast Ventures), Cyna Alderman (MD, Daily News Innovation Lab), Joey Marburger (Director of Digital, Washington Post) & Erin Griffith (Fortune Magazine). 10 FREE Passes!
DON'T MISS! ==> Jul 09 Latin America Tech w/ Jake Schwartz (Co-founder, General Assembly) & Omar Téllez (President, Moovit), 15 FREE Passes! Jul 09 Angel+VC Investor Summit 2015 (16 Entrepreneurs & 100 investors, For accredited investors only), 3 FREE Passes ($475 each)!
DON'T MISS! ==> Jul 12 BrunchWork w/ Steven Young (Sr Dir. of Acquisition Marketing @ GrubHub Seamless) & Krystle Mobayeni (Founder/CEO @ BentoBox), 3 FREE Passes! Aug 06 Summer NYC VC & Angel Conference (showcasing early-stage venture funds & angel groups), 2 FREE Passes ($85 each)!
DON'T MISS! ==> Aug 21-23 WeWork Summer Camp @ Adirondacks (The Chainsmokers, Great Good Fine Ok, Elephante, DJ Tim Martell, Krooks) + outdoor movie theater, morning yoga classes & more!
DON'T MISS! ==> Upcoming demo days ... Jul 07 MedTech Demo Day @ WeWork Labs. Aug 05 Summer Launchpad Demo Day @ NYU.
Jul 01 Sales Hacker Workshop w/ Jorge Soto (Co-founder, Dashtab) & Sean Daly (Founder, SalesBlazer). 2 FREE Passes ($300 each)!
Jul 08 Habit-Forming Products Workshop w/ Nir Eyal (Author, Hooked). 1 FREE Pass ($249 each)!
Jul 09 Inbox Awesome w/ Tom Lehmann & Ilan Zechory (Founders, Genius), James Slezak (Dir. of Strategy, NY Times), Millie Tran (Editor, Buzzfeed), Neil Capel (Founder, Sailthru), Peter Wang (CTO, Refinery29), Matthew Hartmann (Betaworks), Rahul Vohra (Founder, Rapportive / LinkedIn). 30% off w/ code "GARY". 2 FREE Passes ($575 each)!
Jul 09 FinTech Trends w/ Maja Lapcevic (SVP, Citi Ventures), Travis Skelly (Dir. of Investments, FinTech Collective), Morgan Downey (CEO, Money.net), Jonathan Gass (CEO, Nomad Financial). 10 FREE Passes!
Jul 10 Ask a VC NYC w/ Greycroft, Bowery Capital, Samsung VC, Softbank, Spark Capital, TechStars, Verizon VC, Comcast, ffVC, Bain Capital VC, Galvanize VC, Hearst Ventures, MESA+, Primary VC. 4 FREE Passes!
Jul 15 Collab/Space New York 2015 w/ Sree Sreenivasan (Chief Digital Officer, Met Museum), Cory Haik (Exec Producer & Sr Editor, Washington Post), Mark Glaser (Founder, PBS MediaShift & Idea Lab) & Andy Boyle (NBC Digital BreakingNews). 2 FREE Passes ($150 each)!
Jul 16 Social Retail Summit w/ founders of Ministry of Supply, Acustom Apparel, Pivotte, Worn. 5 Free Passes ($60)!
Jul 20 DevCon5 HTML5 & Mobile App Developer Conference w/ Sumit Amar (Dir. of Engg, Electronic Arts), Jafar Husain (Tech Lead, Netflix), Nicholas Harlow (Dir. of Product, Sencha), Jeff Pulver (CEO, Zula), Ian Maffett (Intel). 2 FREE Passes ($995 each)!
PR School (8 weeks of live online classes by magazine & TV editors incl. 5-step formula, branding, local/national pitch, James Bond PR), 2 FREE Passes ($1097 each)!
FREE PASSES! (browse) ==> Jun 30 10 Things Every Female Founder Should Know: Startup Law (Employment Law, Corporate Law, Real Estate Law, IP Law). Jul 01 Rules of Thumb For Building a Startup w/ Saul Orbach (MD, Beachhead Group). Jul 08 Pricing Strategy. Jul 09 Startup Grind w/ Joel Spolsky (Founder, Stack Exchange). Jul 09 Women 2.0 NYC.
Mo' FREE Passes! (browse) ==> Jul 10 Raising Startup Capital. Jul 15 Enterprise Tech Meetup (Salesforce, Rocketrip, Semmle, Garrison). Jul 16 Women 2.0 Brooklyn. Aug 08 BrunchWork w/ Justin McLeod (Founder, Hinge).
Upcoming Events ==> Jun 29 Ladies @ Launch. Jun 30 Social Media Day. Jun 30 Midtown Tech Breakfast w/ Kathryn Chen (Product Mgr, MediaMath). Jul 09 Amazon AWS Summit. Jul 10 Village Tech Breakfast w/ Geoff Guerdat (Dir. of Data Engg, Gilt). Jul 15 Startup Institute Open Doors Party.
Classes ==> Jun 29 Girls Make STEAM @ Makery. Jul 06 Intro to Data Science (with R) @ Data Science Academy. Jul 07 Dive Deeper Into CSS @ Noble. Jul 11 From SAS to R @ Data Science Academy. Jul 11 Big Data w/ Hadoop @ Data Science Academy. Jul 12 Data Science w/ Python (Data Analysis) @ Data Science Academy. Jul 12 Data Science w/ Python (Machine Learning) @ Data Science Academy. Jul 17 SQL Bootcamp @ GA.
DEALS ==> FREE 30 Day Trial to Skillfeed by Shutterstock (70K video tutorials on Entrepreneurship, Idea Validation, Growth, Raising Money, App Dev).
CAUSES ==> Jul 09 Grovo For Good Summer Soiree (benefitting River Fund NY).
DEADLINES ==> Jun 29 LA Dodgers Sports & Entertainment Accelerator (w/ R/GA).. Jun 30 Simon Launch Retail Accelerator. Jun 30 Policy & Demo Project Ideas ($70M for universal broadband by 2025). Jul 01 Wall Street Journal Global Startup Competition (winners present @ WSJDLive). Jul 01 Work-Bench Enterprise Tech Incubator (175 companies, $385M raised by alumni).
Mo' Deadlines ==> Jul 06 Blueprint Health Summer Program. Jul 09 Innovation Weekend Pitch Contest (winners invited to Grand Finale in Tokyo). Jul 24 NY Presbyterian Hospital InnovateNYP Challenge ($25K). Jul 25 Code For America Fellowship Program (digital tools for cities). Jul 31 Andrew's Roadmaps (Free) For Entrepreneurs (Sep 19-20). Jul 31 First Round Capital Open App. Sep 01 Context.IO $125K App Challenge (apps using email data).
Mo' Deadlines ==> SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition. Intel Capital Fund ($125M for startups by women & minorities). NYC BigApps Competition. BookExpo Startup Challenge. NYCEDC Life Sciences Fund ($150M). White House Demo Day. Blueprint Health Collective. Data Bosses (shark tank for data ventures). Health IT Entrepreneurial ($1.45M).
CONGRATS! ==> Philip, Neil, Luke & Casper raised $55M (@ $555M valuation) from Institutional Venture Partners, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Scooter Braun. Nice, yo!
Mo' Congrats! ==> Ayah & Little Bits raised $44.2M. Enigma raised $28.2M. Jose, Paul, Luis & Olapic raised $15M. Jeremy & Andela raised $10M from Spark & Omidyar. Marc, Zhou & Smart Vision Labs raised $6.1M. Riggs & HonestBuildings raised $5M. Dmitry & DigitalGenius raised $3M. BankerBay raised $2M.
Mo' Congrats! ==> SoulCycle planning to go IPO. Seed Scientific acquired by Spotify. OpenSky acquired 11 Main from Alibaba. MediaOcean sells stake to Vista Equity. GA founder Brad launching Common.
Community Leader at Projective Space, Rails Dev at Edco, Associate at Barclays TechStars, Product Design at Facebook, Product Design at Dropbox, Mktg at OpenSky, Content Intern at TWIP, Lead Gen at Opentopic, Recruiter at Spotify, Research at BI, Frontend Dev at Interlude, Mktg Intern at AptDeco, Startup Solns Architect at Amazon, Frontend Engg at CBS Radio, S/w Engg at CBS Radio, Campaign Mgr at Healthcasts, Product Mgr at Dots, Office Mgr at Reonomy, Twitter Editor at BuzzFeed, Data Engineer at Reonomy, Biz Dev at Buncee, Full Stack Engineer at Thirstie, Front-End Intern at Keen Home, S/w Engineer at Reonomy,
Until next week :)
Gary
(aka "The Guy with the Red Tie")
Word on the Streets: "Gary is literally everywhere! He must have a bunch of clones of himself all over town!" - Jules Ehrhardt (Partner & Head of Studio @ ustwo)
Maybe I do, Jules, maybe I do ;)
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The Bridge will be innovation hub of $2 billion Cornell Tech Campus (opening Summer 2017) on Roosevelt Island. One-third of the open, loft-like glass building will be mix of startups, large companies & co-working space.
Slovakia based AeroMobil 3.0 prototype of flying car shown for 1st time at tech festival in Vienna. It's 6 meter long, steel & carbon, flight range of 544 miles & top ground speed of 124mph.
Lexus' working model of a hoverboard! It uses liquid nitrogen-cooled superconductors & magnets. More details coming Oct 21 (when Marty McFly went Back to the Future). Nice, yo!
MarI/O is a machine learning program made of AI, neural networks & genetic algorithms that kicks butt at Super Mario World.
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