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PlayerCoach.ai investor update – Q1 2024

Please keep this confidential.

Apr 12

Reassemble the analytics team! Reassemble the analytics team!

Apr 5

March 2024

All at one time

What to do at a corporate conference.

Mar 29

Disband the analytics team

I mean, no, surely not. But maybe?

Mar 22

The posters decide

Who picks Silicon Valley’s winners?

Mar 15

Long on shovels, short on gold

When everyone is betting the house on AI, there are probably some good deals on the other side of the line. Plus, the real problem with liquidation…

Mar 8

Whatever, do the secondary sale

But it should be employees, not VCs, who judge if they're fair.

Mar 1

February 2024

LLMs shouldn’t write SQL

There's no direct path from a business question to a useful query.

Feb 23

The problem was the product

How the modern data stack got lost.

Feb 16

Small multiplies

If you’re good at something, just do that?

Feb 9

Data arithmetic

Science is for suckers. Plus, influencers giveth, and influencers taketh away.

Feb 2

January 2024

Your company's values will be used against you

The problem isn’t the intent; it’s the execution.

Jan 26

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