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Avi Savar shared thisHuge day for the team at Suzy. Today marks the launch of something new — a Decision Engine designed to turn consumer intelligence into clear, actionable recommendations. For anyone who’s ever sat through research that ends in a deck (instead of a decision), this hits on a real gap. Instead of more data, the focus here is on helping teams actually move forward with confidence. You can also read CEO Matt Britton’s perspective on it here: https://lnkd.in/ep3_3pRY And see it in action on April 8th during its first-of-its-kind product launch broadcast: https://lnkd.in/eAzWcZ_5 GO TEAM!!!Decisions, Accelerated: Suzy Unveils a Platform Built for the Modern Brand | SuzyDecisions, Accelerated: Suzy Unveils a Platform Built for the Modern Brand | Suzy
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Avi Savar posted thisA funny thing happens when you stop talking about AI like a futurist and start treating it like a wrench. We recently worked with a PE-backed professional services firm drowning in a recurring deliverable: dense, data-heavy decks produced every quarter by expensive senior talent. Think $300/hour analytical horsepower spent on assembly work. We didn’t rip and replace anything. We mapped the workflow, automated data collection, and built a system to draft structure, charts, and narrative — so analysts could focus on what they actually get paid to do: think, refine, and advise. Projected impact: ~$500K/year in savings on the first use case alone. Faster turnaround. Higher-leverage humans. The formula isn’t complicated: → Clarify the actual job to be done → Orchestrate tools you already have → Prototype fast, then productionize what proves ROI Mid-market companies don’t lack ideas. They lack a clear path from idea to outcome. Start with a rapid diagnostic. Pair it with a working prototype. Earn the right to scale. If your team is running a PowerPoint factory when it should be running a review-and-improve operation — that’s the conversation worth having.
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Avi Savar shared this"If you still think human beings are going to buy your software, you're going to be severely challenged." Jerry Murdock, Co-Founder of Insight Partners, is tracking a shift where software-to-software transactions replace the traditional B2B sales cycle. Other data from this week's venture landscape: 1. Market Impact: A $20B wipeout in incumbents just on the *threat* of agentic disruption. 2. Production Efficiency: Jack Dorsey is already restructuring Block on the thesis that AI-augmented micro-teams will outperform current headcount. 3. Intelligence Threshold: We’ve cleared the AGI bar for over half of professional skill sets; the bottleneck is now deployment, not capability. Get the intelligence here: https://lnkd.in/e7mynaXc #VentureCapitalAvi Savar shared thisThe AI Tsunami isn't future hype—it's a present force, reshaping market dynamics and delivering billion-dollar blows. This "Hero Stat" graphic visualizes AI's immediate financial impact, wiping billions off market caps. Autonomous agents are here, forcing a re-evaluation of every business aspect. How prepared is your business for this profound shift? Dive deeper into the latest intelligence and subscribe: https://is.gd/uuljkB #AI #MarketDynamics #BusinessTransformation #AutonomousAgents #FutureOfWork
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Avi Savar posted thisAI-enabled context shifting is fundamentally changing how I work. The workflow is straightforward: while one AI agent is building, writing, or running, you don’t wait. You switch to another window, another project, another agent. The machine never idles, and neither do you. Currently, I’m building a publishing system, an audience management system, a clawbot agent command center, and a dynamic case study library… All are in motion. The productivity is difficult to articulate. Tasks that once took weeks are now completed in days. The leverage is unlike anything I’ve experienced in 25 years of building companies. However, there’s an aspect that remains unaddressed. My brain still needs to hold every thread, context switch between entirely different worlds, and stay sharp across all of it. For someone with ADD, the constant motion can feel like a superpower—until it doesn’t. Until the scramble sets in, and you realize you’re juggling three live projects in your head at all times, with no off switch. We are on the brink of a wave of founders and operators achieving superhuman output levels. The leverage is real, but so is the mental cost.
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Avi Savar shared thisYou're missing the most important conversations in your industry. Every week. Not because you're not paying attention — because there are over 1,000 hours of them and you simply don't have the time. The best thinking in PE, venture, and AI transformation show up on podcasts — fund managers on mic, operators sharing what's actually working, founders saying things they'd never put in writing. That's why I built Velocity Meter. Five briefings a week, built for PE partners, VC investors, and AI operators: Monday: AI & Transformation Tuesday: PE Intelligence Wednesday: Market Signals Thursday: Startup & VC Friday: Big Ideas & Frameworks 288 podcasts tracked. 60,000+ minutes of content analyzed. Key insights, trending topics, full episode appendix. Ten minutes each morning. Free to read. Free to subscribe. https://lnkd.in/egQR2367
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Avi Savar shared this605 minutes of executive-level intelligence condensed into a 5-minute briefing. This week, beyond the trade war: • AI ROI is entering a 12-month 'showdown' period (via Nick Colas). • Private credit is restructuring the asset-heavy economy. • Technical levels to watch as Big Tech margins face pressure. If you're running a business or a portfolio, you don't have 10 hours to listen to every macro podcast. We did the work so you can focus on the decision.Avi Savar shared thisThe Supreme Court just dealt a blow to Trump's tariff playbook, but don't mistake this legal defeat for a policy pivot. The next administration will find new ways to weaponize trade, forcing companies to bake in perpetual geopolitical risk. We analyzed 605 minutes of intelligence across 12 podcast episodes to bring you critical insights. Discover the full analysis and what it means for your investments and business. Read the full brief here: https://is.gd/f8egOH #MarketIntelligence #GeopoliticalRisk #TradePolicy #Investing
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Avi Savar posted thisA decade ago, making a movie required a studio, a crew, and millions of dollars. Then a smarter phone changed everything. Not just cheaper filmmaking — an entirely new class of people who never had access before. The same thing is about to happen with software. For decades, operators with deep category expertise — people who understood the problems, the customers, the gaps — couldn't do anything with that knowledge without an engineering team or a VC check. And capital only chased big markets. If your problem wasn't big enough to justify a $100M exit, it never got solved. Not because it wasn't worth solving. Because it was too small to fund. AI just changed that equation. Three people and $500K can now ship what used to take 20 engineers and a $5M Series A. The operator doesn't need permission from capital anymore. They just build. This is the rise of the operator as the new creator. More businesses get built. More of them profitable quickly. Fewer need venture funding. A $3M business run by 4 people with no outside capital isn't a failure. It's the whole point. And maybe this is how the AI job loss story gets rewritten. What if AI doesn't just eliminate roles inside large companies but creates an explosion of small ones? Instead of one 300-person company, thirty 10-person companies — each solving a problem that was never big enough to attract capital before. More founders. More ownership. More people with equity in something they built. The creator economy proved that removing the cost of production didn't mean fewer movies. It meant a million new filmmakers. What happens when you remove the cost of building software? You get a million new operators. And that changes everything, again.
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Avi Savar shared thisPeople ask me how I stay so informed. They assume I'm disciplined. I'm not. I'm lazy. I just built a really great cheat code. There are 100+ hours of business podcasts every week covering AI, PE, markets, venture, leadership. I want all of the insight and none of the listening. So I built an AI system that listens, transcribes, and analyzes every episode across 90+ shows and delivers five intelligence briefings a week that I read over my morning coffee. 🤖 Mon: AI & Transformation 💼 Tue: PE Intelligence 📈 Wed: Market Signals 🚀 Thu: Startup & VC 🧠 Fri: Big Ideas & Frameworks Not summaries. Patterns. Trends. Signals. Free to read. Free to subscribe → velocitymeter.com Since I first posted about this, a few thousand people have joined and fewer than 2% have unsubscribed... Laziness, it turns out, scales.
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Avi Savar shared this29,000 companies. $3.6 trillion in unrealized value. 😳 That is the size of the bottleneck currently choking the private equity exit market. While the volume of PE acquisitions has tripled over the last decade, strategic exits—which historically account for 60% of all realizations—have remained completely flat. Today's digest analyzed 633 minutes of high-level intelligence from guests like Ted Seides to understand what this means for LPs and GPs as holding periods consistently push past the 5-year mark. The data suggests we aren't waiting for a "normalization"—we are moving into a new structural reality where multiple expansion is dead and operational value creation is the only way out.Avi Savar shared thisThe private markets aren't just normalizing—they're undergoing a structural change. Our latest analysis reveals a staggering $3.6 trillion bottleneck in private equity, where robust investment demand meets profoundly constrained exit avenues. Dive deeper into why this isn't a temporary cycle. Read more: https://is.gd/ibPexF #PrivateEquity #MarketShift #Investments #Finance #BusinessInsights
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Josh Muccio only the best! 👊🏼
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Congrats Carly Skinder Lieberman! Enjoy the family time… and can’t wait to hear what you dive into next!! 👊🏼
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Alexandra Goldfarb custom digest are super easy. I’ve been toying with opening up the platform to let folks make their own. I’ve also added new digests on marketing, leadership, etc.
Feedback and ideas welcome!!🙏🏻
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Avi Savar liked thisAvi Savar liked thisToday we shipped the Decision Engine. 🚀 For the last several months, our team obsessed over one question: how do you get AI to make a recommendation a brand team would actually trust? Not a summary. Not "top 3 themes." An actual "you should do X because of Y, and here's how to validate it." That's a fundamentally different problem than building a survey tool or a dashboard. It requires context. Specificity. And a trust mechanism that lets you push back. We built all three. 💜 The part I'm most proud of: the system doesn't start from zero every time. It carries your brand's context forward. Your past research. Your strategic priorities. Your competitive set. Every study makes the next one smarter. Your 200th question should be dramatically better than your first. Now it is. We're pulling back the curtain on April 8. See it live 👇 https://suzy.news/fkf
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Avi Savar liked thisAvi Savar liked thisRSA week was a big win for The Cyber Startup Expo. We built the Cyber Startup Expo as an invite-only, highly curated, high-value event to help early-stage cybersecurity startups get more out of RSA — and the response exceeded expectations. With 33 participating portfolio companies from Dreamit Ventures and our partners, Blu Ventures, DataTribe, Carnegie Mellon University CyLab, and the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship, the day was packed with strong founder conversations, live demos, investor meetings, enterprise engagement, and real momentum. And demand was so strong that we were unable to confirm 400+ registrants because we hit capacity. Why did we do it? Because for most early-stage startups, the traditional RSA experience can be tough to justify. The cost is high. The signal-to-noise ratio is low. And too often, founders leave with less value than they hoped for. We wanted to create a better model: a focused environment where the right startups could meet the right buyers, investors, and ecosystem partners in one place. Judging by the energy in the room, the quality of meetings, and the overwhelming interest, this format clearly resonated. A big thank you to everyone who joined us and helped make it happen. More signal. Less noise. More value for founders. Drew Hunt, Brittany Gillow, Rashida Shakir, Veronica Gilbert, Leo Scott, Josh Miller, Tom Perkins, Bob Ackerman, Robert Ackerman, Tanuj Gulati, Steven Welch, Mike Levinson, David Bookspan, Avi Savar #RSAC2026 #CyberSecurity #Startups #CyberStartups #VentureCapital #CyberInnovation
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Content to Commerce: Engaging Consumers Across Paid, Owned and Earned Channels
Wiley
See publicationMaster the publishing and entertainment world's tools and techniques for content marketing success
Over the last decade the convergence of media and technology has turned the marketing world on its head. In order for brands to succeed in today's socially connected world, they must think like publishers and act like media networks.
Content to Commerce shows how utilizing publishing- and entertainment-based principles can help brands and marketers use social media…Master the publishing and entertainment world's tools and techniques for content marketing success
Over the last decade the convergence of media and technology has turned the marketing world on its head. In order for brands to succeed in today's socially connected world, they must think like publishers and act like media networks.
Content to Commerce shows how utilizing publishing- and entertainment-based principles can help brands and marketers use social media effectively—ultimately reaching today's hyper-connected and highly fragmented audiences. From big picture strategy to the tactics and tools require to execute, this book offers a clear approach to social media marketing for both big and small brands alike.
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