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How To Become The Greatest Venture Capitalist: Lessons From The Masters - Forbes

Venture capital is a highly competitive field that takes a lot of skill, knowledge, and dedication to succeed.

In his book, "How to Invest: Masters on the Craft," David Rubenstein interviewed some of the world’s leading investors and asked them to share practical lessons about what it takes to pursue a successful career in investing and build firms that endure over the long term. The list is long and distinguished, including Larry Fink (Blackrock), Seth Klarman (Baupost), Ray Dalio (Bridgewater), Jim Simmons (Renaissance), Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz), Michael Moritz (Sequoia Capital), and David Blood (Generation) – and of course David himself is the founder of the venerable private equity firm Carlyle.

I had the opportunity to sit down with David and dive into what his book means for venture capital and startup innovation. Here are five key take-aways.

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Why Meetings Are The Best Place To Build Your Personal Brand—If You Develop The Right Mindset - Forbes

Personal branding is about authentically delivering value to the people you seek to influence, inspire and impact. One of the best places to do that is in meetings. In fact, meetings (both in-person and virtual) are among the most powerful ways to build your brand and advance your career, when you actively engage in them. That's because:

Many of the people you need to impress so you can keep you career moving upward are right there, face to face or on Zoom. It's the place to showcase your work and talk about the unique contributions you make to your team or a project.

Delivering value that's invisible will not catapult your to career new heights. Everyone's busy. You can't expect your boss and other influential people to be actively figuring out what you're doing every day. Meetings bring your value out of the shadows.

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How to Play to Your Strengths - Harvard Business Review

It’s only natural to struggle with receiving negative feedback. In this article, the authors present a tool to help you understand and leverage your strengths, offering a unique feedback experience that counterbalances negative input. This exercise, dubbed the Reflected Best Self (RBS), allows you to tap into talents you may not have been aware of and increase your career potential. To begin, start gathering input from family, friends, colleagues, and teachers around what they see as your key strengths. Next, search for common themes in the feedback to develop a clearer picture of these strengths. Next, write a description of yourself that summarizes and distills the accumulated information. Finally, redesign your understanding of your ideal job description to build on what you’ve discovered you’re best at. Once you’re more aware of your best self, you can shape the roles you choose to take on — both today and in the next phases of your career.

Most feedback accentuates the negative. During formal employee evaluations, discussions invariably focus on “opportunities for improvement,” even if the overall evaluation is laudatory. Informally, the sting of criticism lasts longer than the balm of praise. Multiple studies have shown that people pay keen attention to negative information. For example, when asked to recall important emotional events, people remember four negative memories for every positive one. No wonder most executives give and receive performance reviews with all the enthusiasm of a child on the way to the dentist.

Traditional, corrective feedback has its place, of course; every organization must filter out failing employees and ensure that everyone performs at an expected level of competence. Unfortunately, feedback that ferrets out flaws can lead otherwise talented managers to overinvest in shoring up or papering over their perceived weaknesses, or forcing themselves onto an ill-fitting template. Ironically, such a focus on problem areas prevents companies from reaping the best performance from its people. After all, it’s a rare baseball player who is equally good at every position. Why should a natural third baseman labor to develop his skills as a right fielder?

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The Latest AI Chatbots Can Handle Text, Images and Sound. Here’s How - Scientific American

New “multimodal” AI programs can do much more than respond to text—they also analyze images and chat aloud

Slightly more than 10 months ago OpenAI’s ChatGPT was first released to the public. Its arrival ushered in an era of nonstop headlines about artificial intelligence and accelerated the development of competing large language models (LLMs) from Google, Meta and other tech giants. Since that time, these chatbots have demonstrated an impressive capacity for generating text and code, albeit not always accurately. And now multimodal AIs that are capable of parsing not only text but also images, audio, and more are on the rise.

OpenAI released a multimodal version of ChatGPT, powered by its LLM GPT-4, to paying subscribers for the first time last week, months after the company first announced these capabilities. Google began incorporating similar image and audio features to those offered by the new GPT-4 into some versions of its LLM-powered chatbot, Bard, back in May. Meta, too, announced big strides in multimodality this past spring. Though it is in its infancy, the burgeoning technology can perform a variety of tasks.

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