A reminder for new readers. That Was The Week collects the best writing on critical issues in tech, startups, and venture capital. I select the articles because they are of interest. The selections often include things I disagree with. The articles are only snippets. Click on the headline to go to the original. I express my point of view in the editorial and the weekly video.

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Contents

• Editorial - The Importance of Being Twitter

• Essays of the Week

  • The Fusion Race

  • A Bessemer Partner On What’s Driving The Firm’s Billion-Dollar Bet On AI

  • Emerging Fund Manager Report - Q1 2023

  • Exploring The Q1 ‘23 Emerging Manager Report

  • Full-Stack Startups in American Dynamism

• Video of the Week

  • Sam Altman on GPT4 - 2-hour discussion with Lex Friedman

• AI of the Week

  • Building an AI fortress in the age of GPT-4

  • AI models can be a force to reduce bias, not reinforce it, Sam Altman says

  • Microsoft launches an AI tool to take the pain out of building websites

  • Microsoft’s Azure AI Studio lets developers build their own AI ‘copilots’

• News Of the Week

  • SoftBank exploring offering credit funds to tech startups- sources

  • Ranked: Who Made the Most U.S. Unicorn Acquisitions Since 1997?

  • Evercore advises Tiger Global on GP-led secondaries strip sale

  • Meta’s Twitter Competitor App Is Set to be Launched Some Time Next Month

  • Elon Musk Claims Twitter Has Seen a Dramatic (Read more...)