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Mentoring Is the Secret to Innovation Say Silicon Valley’s Top VCs and Entrepreneurs

Leapfrogging

While the new approach recently arose from Silicon Valley, the model knows no geographic, cultural or technical boundaries. Winners receive grant money, Google Cloud credits, and – most importantly – mentorship from a who’s who of experts like: Patrick Collison, Cofounder & CEO of Stripe.

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Elon Musk Blows My Mind

CorporateIntel

He already did consumer software engineering as his opening act as a cofounder of PayPal. He is also the CTO of SpaceX and the chief product architect of Tesla. If there is a possible next Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, it could be him. He’s not goofing around with thin stuff that’s going to come and go. Not Elon Musk.

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#1,901 – GPT-3

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

As Wired puts it: “The tech industry pays programmers handsomely to tap the right keys in the right order, but earlier this month entrepreneur Sharif Shameem tested an alternative way to write code. Seconds later, the system spat out functioning code. ‘I got chills down my spine’ says Shameem.