Insights from Ty Ahmad-Taylor’s 32 years working at NYTimes, @Home Network, Samsung, Meta, and Snap

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Insights from Ty Ahmad-Taylor’s 32 years working at NYTimes, @Home Network, Samsung, Meta, and Snap

Meet Ty Ahmad-Taylor, VP of Monetization at Snap. Ty’s background: 32 years in information design, 26 years in consumer-facing software and product development leadership, and 25 years in interactive television services development. He has worked at four startups (one went public, and the other three were acquired), and at large social, media, and consumer electronic companies.

In the fireside chat with LDV’s Evan Nisselson, he shared his views on three things that every CEO should do, inclusive teams, systems thinking, and an exclusion filter that could make our experience of using social media so much better! Evan and Ty also touched on ideas ripe for AI automation, machine learning algorithms that make TikTok successful, and the mixed reality environment that’s coming soon.

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Killing DSLR Cameras – The Final Nail in the Coffin

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Killing DSLR Cameras – The Final Nail in the Coffin

The smartphone has democratized photography. Improved camera quality is a feature that sells new smartphones. Ever since the inception of LDV Capital in 2012, Evan Nisselson was thrilled with the possibility to partner with people who would bring DSLR quality to small devices.

Earlier this year, we led the seed funding of Glass Imaging – a company on a mission to enable unrivaled professional image quality in smartphones. The team redesigns the optics that work with proprietary AI algorithms to correct the distortions & convert the sensor output to a standard image. You can now see the fantastic quality of pictures taken with the Glass Imaging prototype – it’s happening and soon this technology will fit into pocket-size devices!

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The Next Decade Will See Trillion Dollar Sectors Disrupted by Visual Technologies, According to Hadley Harris

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The Next Decade Will See Trillion Dollar Sectors Disrupted by Visual Technologies, According to Hadley Harris

Evan Nisselson, General Partner at LDV Capital, interviewed Hadley Harris, the Founding General Partner at Eniac, about his experience investing in visual tech. Hadley has done a little bit of everything on the path to co-founding Eniac, starting out as an engineer at Pegasystems, a product manager at Microsoft, and a strategist at Samsung. He ran a few aspects of the business across product and marketing at Vlingo prior to its sale to Nuance. He also served as CMO at Thumb until it was acquired.

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You Are Brilliant and You Want More Exposure

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You Are Brilliant and You Want More Exposure

Every second of every day, people around the world are publishing research papers and launching new startups that leverage computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Researchers and professors want their work to be noticed in the midst of a flood of new work. Entrepreneurs want to build valuable businesses & get covered in top-tier media.

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Power To The People! You Made Our LDV Vision Summit A Success. Thank you!

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Power To The People! You Made Our LDV Vision Summit A Success. Thank you!

YOU are why our annual LDV Vision Summit gathering is special and a success every year. Thank You! We are honored that you fly in from around the world each year to share insights, inspire, do deals, recruit, raise capital and help each other succeed!

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