Mike @mikepwalters
SMB HoldCo @ Wintervest Capital. Ex Banking. Tech, IT Services, Cyber Security. United Kingdom Joined April 2010-
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Paying a 35% global talent headhunter fee is highway robbery
Paying a 35% global talent headhunter fee is highway robbery
Virtual assistants are for amateurs and "four hour work week" dorks. We've hired 63 people in the last 28 days...from 11 different countries. Here's exactly what the NEXT LEVEL of global talent looks like:
What do you do when a client doesn’t pay you? It happens to everyone eventually. And it always sucks. I want to make it a little easier: Here are my 9 steps to deal with it. 🧵
I raised $3.5M in seed funding for Kahani. After our first investor meeting, my investors said: “That was the best post-investment first meeting we’ve ever had.” My COO built an awesome Notion template which helped us crush it. Want it? RT + Reply “Gateway X” and I’ll DM.
This is a breakthrough in practical application of AI! Klarnas AI assistant, powered by @OpenAI, has in its first 4 weeks handled 2.3 m customer service chats and the data and insights are staggering: - Handles 2/3 rd of our customer service enquires - On par with humans on…
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Claude 2.1 (200K Tokens) - Pressure Testing Long Context Recall We all love increasing context lengths - but what's performance like? Anthropic reached out with early access to Claude 2.1 so I repeated the “needle in a haystack” analysis I did on GPT-4 Here's what I found:…
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All the updates from Open AI Dev Day Open AI’s dev day was terrrrriffic. Sam Altman launched a new language model, with tons of added powers. Then announced a bunch of other models to API. Took some sweet time to chat with Satya (and poke him about OpenAI and Microsoft’s…
This is one of the single best business ideas I’ve ever heard of. So many people enact Shakespearean theater at work by engaging others in useless meetings and gatherings. Stop these useless meetings and do something measurable and valuable instead. The big insight is that by…
I turned 43 this week. This year I quit my job, moved to Europe for the summer, and plan to never work for anybody again. I suck at motivational posts, but I want to share 7 ideas that help me every day: 1. Take risks. Nothing worse than spending your time in the false comfort…
1/ Get a cup of coffee. In this thread, I'll help you understand Markov Chains. In life, and in investing, we often come across situations where luck/chance plays a major role. And Markov Chains are often a great way to model and analyze such situations.
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In partnership with @Barclays, #UnreasonableImpact just won Gold for Best Environmental or Sustainable Programme, and then Silver for Most Innovative Collaboration. Thank you to everyone involved in making this program what it is today 🍾 🎉 #CEAwards
After being a @Chase account holder for 10+ years, I was just required to drive to a physical bank location to send a wire transfer. They charged $35 and it took almost a day to arrive in the recipient’s account. You know, there might just be something to this crypto thing.

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