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Contents

Editorial

Essays of the Week

• Venture Capitalists Made a Big Mess of SVB

• What happens to Silicon Valley without Silicon Valley Bank?

• Where the Venture Community Goes From Here

• A Tough Weekend

• The Silicon Valley Bank fallout is just beginning

• In Their Own Words: What Silicon Valley Bank Meant To The Valley 

• Impromtu - A Book Written by Reid Hoffman and GPT4

• Changes at YC

Video of the Week

• The BBC visits CYBERIA Café

News of the Week

• TikTok Is in Deep Trouble

• First Republic Gets Additional Funding From Fed, JPMorgan

• GPT-4 will arrive next week and will be multimodal

• Microsoft’s new Power Platform AI copilot will build your apps for you

• LinkedIn Adds AI-Generated Profile Summaries and Job Listings

• Robots Don’t Make Art

• AI Will Make Human Art More Valuable

• Mark Zuckerberg Ends the Tech Party

• Tiger Global Writes Down Venture Funds’ Bets by 33% in 2022

• Uber, Lyft Score Victory as California Court Affirms Right to Treat Drivers as Contractors

Startup of the Week

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