What I am reading and listening to

This is a weekly ‘Rollup’ of articles I’ve read & podcasts I’ve listened to throughout the week:

3 articles & 1 podcast

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READING:

III. Demand for Data Professionals

How AI will change the role of data professionals. I think it ultimately makes data professionals more efficient and the tools we have now continue to evolve.

II. BNPL Insurance

Upper90 explores the opportunities & incumbents in the buy now, pay later for insurance space.

I. Building Blocks of AI

Matthew writes a good post on AI in his blog. This quote stood out to me: “We are still in early innings of figuring out what the product insights will be on how to use large language models and other types of AI. We have to see both what’s possible and then also how people will use these new features.”

LISTENING:

I. Rebecca Kaden at USV- “The piece of the AI craziness that I’m most excited about is the application layer. There’s still a lot of kind of complexity and uncertainty on the foundational model and on the enabling infrastructure on where equity value aggregates — how much of the stack the models own, how defensible those models are, how that shakes out — but what I feel like we can have more conviction about is that it unleashes a wave of consumer innovation that’s going to be really fun”