It was a privilege to speak at @GeorgiaTech Commencement and celebrate the amazing graduates. youtu.be/NtZsVI2-hYg via @YouTube

I was named to the Forbes 250, Forbes’ list of America’s Greatest Innovators. I didn’t know this was coming and I’m truly grateful. Humbled to be included among leaders building and backing the future. For me, it’s a reminder to keep learning and keep building.

I’m delighted to welcome Nancy Torres to the Open Opportunity Fund team as SVP of Value Creation. Looking forward to working with her to help our portfolio companies scale and thrive.

Excited to share this announcement from New York City Economic Development Corporation (@NYCEDC) about New York City Catalyst Fund’s investment in @OpportunityFund .

🎉 We’re thrilled to announce that the NYCEDC Executive Committee approved NYC Catalyst Fund Investment for Open Opportunity Fund! With today’s approval, the NYCCF has reached a new milestone, deploying over half of its $40 million capital. Learn more: edc.nyc/press-release/nycedc….

Great conversations at dinner. Ranging from future of tech to self-improvement to investing to health to family. 💪🏽💪🏽

Entrepreneurs are at the forefront of the tech revolution, using AI tools to solve problems. At the inaugural #SBAAISummit with @opportunityfund's @PaulJudge, I announced @SBAgov's new AI Small Business Resource Hub, which helps businesses incorporate AI: sba.gov/aihub

As a Latino entrepreneur, I know how crucial it is to invest in Black and Latino founders. During my time at @SoftBank, @pauljudge and I launched the @OpportunityFund — and recently bought it back to keep advancing our mission of supporting underserved founders. Today, we're thrilled to welcome @ShakaRasheed, who brings deep expertise in Capital Development. Excited for the impact he’ll make. theopportunityfund.com/news/…

I’m thrilled to welcome @ShakaRasheed to the @OpportunityFund team to lead Capital Formation. Sháka has led capital formation teams at Bridgewater, Lazard, Citadel and J.P. Morgan, and growth teams at Salesforce and Microsoft. @marceloclaure and I are excited to have you join us.

A classic 🙌🏽💪🏽

New podcast from @Vijay_Voice of @pindrop about AI attacks and deepfakes

Pindrop announces $100M funding to accelerate work in voice security and deepfake protection.

Spent yesterday at Citi’s Gen AI Summit and today at the Citi DevOps and DevSecOps Summit. So much innovation happening right now. One of the most exciting times in software in decades

Welcome Neeraj Gupta (@negupta) as CTO of @pindrop

At the start of any new technology trend it's critical to ask yourself, if you were to start your company over again in *today's* environment, how would you approach the emerging technology. Whether it was mainframe to PC, PC to mobile, or on-prem to cloud, a new technology means a new value proposition for your customers, and how you respond becomes a critical strategic decision. There are countless lessons from history around companies not adapting either quickly enough or a way that is hobbled by their legacy, and then ultimately miss the full potential of the market shift.  It's insanely clear that if we were starting Box from scratch tomorrow, AI would be something considered as a core part of our platform that would deliver intelligent content management experiences to customers. AI wouldn't be seen as a "separate" concept from the platform itself, but instead, the core reason you'd want a platform to manage your information. This is not only why Box AI is baked into our Enterprise Plus plan for customers (as opposed to being a separately priced product), but also why we removed limits on usage last week for core end-user use-cases. And we believe this is going to be the expectation of most enterprise software in the future. Going forward, it's hard to imagine there will be "software" and then "software with AI". Just as there's little software without a mobile experience today, and increasingly less software that distinguishes between being cloud and on-prem. Software will be infused with AI, and the expectation from customers will be that any software can do intelligent things to make work more productive and workflows more efficient. In a decade from now, it will seem like a foreign concept that AI products were separate appendages of existing software products. And especially as the performance of GPUs goes up, the cost of AI tokens go down, and the quality of models improve, we know that intelligent experiences in software will be the default, not secondary. The continued lesson in technology is, time and time again, to build for the future state, not how things look today.

PIN Board member Dr. @pauljudge talks about how to unlock more funding for inclusive founders. They can uncover opportunities that might have been overlooked. @CollisionHQ @OOpportunity #JUNETEENTHATLANTA

We’re looking forward to @CollisionHQ this week! Dr. Paul Judge (@pauljudge) will be participating in two discussions tomorrow (Wednesday, 6/19): - 11:20 AM – 11:45 AM – Representation matters: Diversity in VC - 2:20 PM – 2:40 PM -Let’s talk about race and tech #CollisionConf

Pindrop announces $1 million Deepfake Warranty

Energizing morning at @Morehouse for the Center for Black Entrepreneurship event. Enjoyed being a minor advisor at the beginning of this concept. Amazing to see it grow and the collaboration from many great organizations.

Enjoyed the discussion about “Diversity Drives Returns” at @Bloomberg ‘s 6th annual conference on the topic. Last week in NYC. Great conversation with Marcus Shaw and @scarletfu

Congrats @eMergeAmericas on 10th anniversary and another amazing event showcasing Miami’s tech ecosystem