
At the intersection of media & emerging technology, prev. Sony Pictures, Netflix
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Who you know is related to your track record of delivering products, so maybe over time they will trust your judgement but the first time around you still need a good product.
That's certainly happening in the world, but I don't think there's much point in dwelling on it, unless you're launching a fund to be more fair and equitable
I've asked ChatGPT to design an AI curriculum on ML & LLMs, and Python language in a 12 week course, culminating in training your own language model. If you'd like to follow along, I'll be posting it as I go through it here: https://kaiwerks.notion.site/kaiwerks/AI-ML-LLM-Curriculum-6fe5864ed8bc482bb36ad2adb9b7341a
Also I can think of an equal number of examples in my experience where people got funding because of connections vs. getting funding because they worked at it, without any advantages (aside from the macro race & gender trends)