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Figma CFO: vibe coding a target's product is now an M&A diligence check

8 takeaways: AI personas of Figma's leaders that review deal memos, why the finance team may not shrink, and the 40 or 50 agents one company built that…

3 hrs ago • Scuttlebutt

Tutor Intelligence's CEO: a 1% cost edge can flip an entire market to robots

6 takeaways: Why Tutor deploys robots into real jobs before perfecting a model, the 100-robot fleet in Boston, and why he calls this moment a "great…

Nov 3 • Scuttlebutt

Bending Spoons CEO: AI writes 94% of our code, and no good company should be under 70%

10 lessons: Why SaaS multiples assumed 12% growth for 15 years, why cheap code never threatened incumbents, a leverage cap below 3x, and the tax refund…

Nov 2 • Scuttlebutt

a16z New Media: LinkedIn will never let AI agents search its network, but Cosign will

6 takeaways: why the Cosign Awards honor operators over chief executives, how one cosign got a newcomer into Silicon Valley, and a hiring process that…

Nov 1 • Scuttlebutt

Mark Cuban: AI review of benefit contracts before signing would make health costs plunge

12 arguments: UnitedHealth's 3,000 subsidiaries, the one AI prompt that flags overcharges, and why drugs designed for one patient's DNA head toward zero…

Oct 29 • Scuttlebutt

Kids can learn twice as much in 2 hours a day as in 6, says Alpha School's founder

10 insights: the escape-room test Alpha uses to grade teamwork, a $1M-profit-or-your-tuition-back high school, and why a16z's new academy thinks college…

Oct 28 • Scuttlebutt

OpenAI's computer-use leads: agents are now faster than the average human

6 takeaways: the Guardian system watching every click an agent makes, why Astra beats its predecessor at video games every time, and the "green field…

Oct 27 • Scuttlebutt

A 3-person team can now outrun a 200-person rival, says Box's CEO

7 lessons: why the 2025 startup playbook is unlike anything before it, why agents are "pulling a slot machine," and why distribution still decides who…

Oct 26 • Scuttlebutt

a16z co-founder: you don't unseat an AI incumbent with a slightly better product

9 lessons: why AI is a new kind of computer, why "GPT wrapper" was a dumb critique, what VCs really sell, and how Opsware went public on $2M of revenue…

Oct 25 • Scuttlebutt

Andy Jassy: Amazon's $220B 2026 capex still can't meet AI demand sold out to 2028

7 takeaways: why inference is still "an order of magnitude too expensive," the call to rewrite almost all code for agents, and his real worry…

Oct 24 • Scuttlebutt

7B pages in, agents now beat humans at document extraction on many tasks — Reducto CEO

7 lessons: why OCR-era tools broke, a penny-a-page list price, benchmarks as marketing, sub-50% accuracy on patient files, and why the frontier labs…

Oct 22 • Scuttlebutt

OpenAI Health AI Lead: health advice is now 34 times cheaper than a month ago

7 insights: why 300 million weekly ChatGPT health users don't get a separate medical model, the physician network built to overrule any one doctor, and…

Oct 21 • Scuttlebutt

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