Talia Goldberg
@TaliaGold
SF by day, NYC by blood, PDX at heart. Partner @BessemerVP
In 2014, smartphones were ubiquitous but most software was built for office workers in front of PCs. We had a thesis on software for the deskless worker, enabled by mobile. That led us to @ServiceTitan. It’s been nearly a decade since we partnered with Ara and Vahe. Two themes…
Things I do regularly with Comet: - brief me for all my meetings today, summarize my recent interactions with the company, include bios for all attendees, and notable news about them or their company from the past week - shopping: “where is the cheapest place I can buy this…
I’ve been using @PerplexityComet exclusively for the past couple months. It is the first product to infuse AI seamlessly across my everyday workflows. It is magical because it 1) works universally with everything I access in the browser - email, salesforce, shopping, calendar,…
I’ve been using @PerplexityComet exclusively for the past couple months. It is the first product to infuse AI seamlessly across my everyday workflows. It is magical because it 1) works universally with everything I access in the browser - email, salesforce, shopping, calendar,…
I love that Grok 4 launched at 9 pm. And that many top companies are shipping things on weekends, not waiting for choreographed launches or traditional media coverage. Just get the goods out in the world. Fast and furious.
Hosting a session for our portfolio with MCP's co-creator, @dsp_, and Pydantic's @samuel_colvin on building production grade AI agents. DM if you're interested to join!
Every so often I see a company that doesn’t call out red flags early with their board or team. They either don’t see the issues, or they are glossing over them. Both are dangerous. The companies I worry about most are not those with high burn or slow growth. I worry about the…
CharacterAI for $2.7b looks like a steal in today’s context. Noam Shazeer is one of the goats
I love this use case. I had @PerplexityComet pull and organize all my medical lab results and files from the past many years, and now query a space with that health history and personalized context whenever I have health questions.
In @CLEARcaryn's bio is "indefatigable." So much admiration for her as an entrepreneur, investor, and human.
Caryn Seidman-Becker (@CLEARcaryn)… • Built a successful hedge fund and was inspired by investing in Amazon, Apple, and Priceline • then bought CLEAR for $6M out of bankruptcy and rebuilt it from scratch • Envisioned CLEAR not just as a travel tool, but a universal identity…
Anthropic, Perplexity, Intercom… and the Tennis Channel!
NEW: our July list for the fastest growing software companies on Ramp @tryramp @perplexity_ai joins our list for its enterprise growth. And businesses are buying subs to @TennisChannel. It's wimbledon! this is an acceptable reason for the US productivity slump
Everyone in tech is starting a podcast or newsletter because it is the natural evolution of work. AI commoditizes intelligence. Labor follows. The scarce resource is time and attention.
Cedric oozes taste. He kicked off our new AI R&D series, where we go behind the scenes with top talent to see their workflows and how AI is transforming development. This episode: design and design engineering.
With AI changing the way we execute on designs, how do you adapt your workflow and what skills will be most valuable in the future of design? I showcased my latest workflow and contemplated these questions during a discussion with @bhavikvnagda from @BessemerVP Check it out 👇
GEO is the new SEO. But the biggest independent SEO/SEM analytics and optimization companies are <$500m, despite serving a multi-trillion dollar market They depend on a small set of powerful platforms that have inherent competitive advantages There is a lot of demand for GEO...…
Every time I’m driving, I use it as an opportunity to go deep with Perplexity voice on my weirdest questions or random thoughts. Today we went down a rabbit hole on brain computer interfaces and developed a personalized skincare regimen. So freaking good.
Should the US gov’t incentivize the development of open source frontier models, or open data? The US frontier models must offset the heavy capex/cost, which is easier to do as a closed model. If you aren’t at the frontier, go open, as China did… but what is the incentive for…
Top three open source AI labs are all from China: DeepSeek, Qwen, and now Minimax (based on @ArtificialAnlys benchmarks) China appears to have some structural advantages in open source AI. Not just my assessment, Ion Stoica's too. Stoica is a star Berkeley professor, who…
My cousin birthed her daughter in an underground hospital in Israel two days ago. In the darkness there is always light.