This week’s Spotlight is: The CMO’s AI MandateThe marketing buyer has fundamentally changed.CMOs are reallocating budgets to AI-native solutions, pushing agencies to run on AI, building in-house agents, and upskilling their teams. The function gets rebuilt around AI.To pressure-test what we're seeing, Mayfield surveyed 50+ CMOs on how AI is reshaping the marketing org.Key data:- 72% of CMOs are actively reallocating budget to AI-native solutions - 53% are increasing their overall marketing budge ...

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This week’s Spotlight is: Why Gen Z's Entrepreneurship Moment Is DifferentToday, a new generation is doing what took my generation courage to even consider - starting a new company. And they are doing it faster, with fewer resources, and at a younger age than ever before.Two things have changed everything.First, AI has democratized who gets to build. For thirty years, entrepreneurship required deep expertise, technical skills, capital, and connections. Today, anyone with an idea and a conversati ...

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When I arrived in Silicon Valley in 1992 with $500 and a Stanford fellowship to pursue my PhD, starting a company was not common. It was considered risky, unconventional - even irresponsible. Most people told me I was crazy. But when the opportunity came to build something that could change the world, I took the leap - dropped out of my PhD, co-founded VXtreme, and never looked back. Today, a new generation is doing what took my generation courage to even consider. And they are doing it faster, ...

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