02.14.2023

Maya's Reading List

February 14, 2023

February 14th 2023

SPICE CAPITAL PRESENTS: 🔥 🌶 HOT SAUCE 🌶 🔥

Here at Spice Capital, we’re focused on making big bets in areas primed for rapid change. To do that, we believe it’s important to stay up to date with what some of the most exciting thinkers and builders are saying day-to-day as well as mixing up your content intake with some fun from the corners of the internet. We know there’s a lot of noise and the space can feel overwhelming. Don’t worry! We’re here to be the Hot Sauce in your bag so you can make sure you always keep things spicy!

1) The robots are coming! Are investors sleeping on robotics in favor of AI + SaaS use cases? Really good thread.

2) Shiva has been creating wonderful content highlighting the startup ecosystem in India. Subscribe to his newsletter. Highlights from this week's edition:

“Previously 95% of the class (IIT) would move to the US. Now there is a trend where 95% is not moving.They are either joining a startup or doing a startup.” - Anand Chandrasekaran

"Indian unicorns are sitting on lofty valuations with higher revenue multiples than global peers. Nearly half of the country’s 107 unicorns that have filed their financial reports for FY22 have a last-twelve-months average revenue multiple of around 30, according to data compiled by Moneycontrol, higher than most geographies, where such multiples are in the range of 15–20 for high-growth companies, investors and bankers said."

1947 Rise ☀️: 330

Reset, InsuranceDekho, GoMechanic & more!

3) If you're done with "aesthetics" trope-larping, listen to this New Models episode with Kat Korbjuhn, creative director at Paradigm Trilogy Sooo many good quotes here from Kat:

"If you don't make sense they can't get you"

"We are not nostalgic for an Indie Sleaze aesthetic... we are nostalgic for a different backdrop from which creation came" 🤯🤯🤯

Unlocked | NM Special Report: Paradigm Trilogy II w/ Kat Korbjuhn

Listen to this episode from New Models (public) on Spotify. First released: 22 Jan 2023 | To join New Models, you can find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com Creative director Katharina Korbjuhn updates NM on Paradigm Trilogy, the mobile-first editorial vehicle she launched in 2021 to address how the fashion-adjacent creative sector is changing. As Paradigm’s second release, “Man vs. Machine” is largely set in Berlin and features contributions from several denizens of the New Models sphere, we invited Kat to come on the podcast to discuss the ideas—the state of fashion & media, machine learning, creative agency, and our neo-anthroposophic age—that underpin the issue's concept. For more: https://paradigmtrilogy.com Bonus: NMTV goes behind the scenes of Paradigm's "Man" shoot in Berlin, May 2022: https://youtu.be/9M1FpaAvrk4

4) Interested in building your own text to image generative AI app? VCs.... beware investing in startups making this their whole offering...

5) Loved this piece from Dirt on Web3 x K-POP opportunities.

K-pop's web3 future

Can the stans embrace it?

6) Change your video to a different theme! "Make it Claymation" "Turn it into anime" Try it out on hugging face 🤗. The open source community is amazing.

Pix2Pix Video - a Hugging Face Space by fffiloni

Discover amazing ML apps made by the community

7) In today's world brand seems to be everything 🤷‍♀️ Nick Pattinson did a monster thread on his favorite design portfolios. If you are in the market for a rebrand check it out (or hit me up - I know some good folks not on this list)

8) Daniel Mason put together a great resource-thread for web3 founders on FAQs like payroll, salary, and entity formation - bookmark this!