India’s Airbound bags $37M to take on trucks with rocket-like drones

Airbound, an Indian startup building autonomous drones, has raised $37 million in fresh capital as it pushes to make moving goods through the air as cheap as trucking them by road. The Series A round, led by Greenoaks with participation from DoorDash, Lachy Groom, Lightspeed, and Humba Ventures, comes less than a year after Airbound … Read more

Accountability Needs Consequences – Leadership Freak

Accountability Needs Consequences Accountability without consequences is wishful thinking. Consequences mean decisions matter. Don’t hold people accountable for what they hope to do. Hold them accountable for what they agree to do. The Tragedy of No Consequences Commitments are suggestions when you rescue people from failure. Rescuing transfers ownership. Repeated reminders create dependence. Excusing failure … Read more

AI Likes Kissing Up to You

AI Likes Kissing Up to You Personal Tech columnist at The Wall Street Journal, Nicole Nguyen, wrote in Why I Told My Chatbot to Stop Kissing Up to Me, “AI is trained in part on what people like, and people prefer the brown-nosing, says Myra Cheng, a computer-science Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University and lead … Read more

Harvard’s $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of its instructors

As Harvard Business School seeks to expand its reach, it’s leaning on AI avatars to provide individual feedback. These avatars were created by a startup called HeyGen and are included in the eight-week, $699 HBS Foundry bootcamp for entrepreneurs. The program offers live sessions with instructors every week, but the AI avatars are the ones … Read more

Self-Leadership: Would You Follow You

Self-Leadership: Would You Follow You Most aspire to lead others. The best lead themselves. Don’t be an expert at leading others, and a novice at leading yourself. Self-Leadership Is Expecting more from yourself than others. Taking responsibility for your own success. Managing your emotions instead of being governed by them. Focusing on changing yourself more … Read more