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The Star
09-05-2025
- Business
- The Star
Built to stay small: Inside the org charts of AI-native startups
Inc. spent years hiring its way to dominance – and then hired more people to manage all those people. Chief executive officer Andy Jassy is now trying to tame the bureaucracy this created, arguing the company needs to regain its nimbleness and act more like the startup it used to be. But what if Amazon were founded today? What if its first 10 hires weren't just "really smart, motivated, inventive, ambitious people', as Jassy describes them, but AI power users equipped with tools that could handle customer service, scheduling and product prototyping on their own? Could the company have scaled faster, and with fewer employees? That's the underlying premise of a new cohort of startups calling themselves "AI natives' – companies built from the ground up with artificial intelligence not just in the product, but at the heart of workflows and team structure. Jared Spataro, Microsoft Corp's chief marketing officer for AI at Work, has been studying tiny, AI-native companies for precisely this reason. "They take a step back and say, what are the inputs to our firm? What are the outputs? And what could we do with AI at the center?' he said in an interview. While their business models are still largely unproven, founders of AI-native companies say their approach helps them stay surprisingly lean. At Daydream, a fashion-shopping startup still in beta, the number of staff is in the low dozens. "If you wanted to do this company three or four years ago, you would need so many more people,' said Daydream co-founder Dan Cary, who worked at Google for more than a decade before becoming an entrepreneur. Or take Lex, an AI-powered writing assistant built for professional writers and academics. It has three employees and its founder wants to keep it that way, even if the business grows. "I love the idea of staying smaller over time so that the core group feels really aligned and really motivated, and able to communicate about hard things,' said founder Nathan Baschez. "You want the right small group of people rather than more people.' Consolidating tasks It's not just the raw computing power of AI that keeps headcounts low – it's AI's ability to collapse work that normally spans multiple functions into tasks that can be accomplished by one person, if any. At Daydream, even product managers who aren't highly technical can use AI coding assistants to build prototypes themselves, rather than having to wait on designers or engineers to build something for them. "It removes the technical barriers to creation' and speeds up the work, Cary said. Rather than testing one idea at a time, like a traditional company might, Daydream typically tests 15 to 20 ideas in parallel. "These AI tools are phenomenal at helping you find out if you're wrong faster, and helping you get to right faster,' he said. That's getting easier with the rise of AI agents, which are capable of handling multistep tasks. While a generative AI chatbot might be able to craft an email to a customer, an agent can be built to actually send the email, log any replies and even schedule a service call if needed, for example. At Sailplane, a stealth-mode startup building agents for AI engineers, co-founder and CEO Sam Ramji's scheduling is handled entirely by an AI agent that mimics the tone and cadence of a professional assistant. Ramji said the company plans to build agents for any parts of the business where off-the-shelf AI solutions aren't yet available. Sailplane has a team of six and aims to close out the year with no more than 10 people. Minimising complexity With small headcounts, founders say they can devote more time to building and less time to traditional management. Lex's Baschez estimated he spends 70% of his time on engineering work, a luxury he suspects he would lose if the business added many more people. He thinks large companies are disproportionately harder to manage and likens them to animals raised on factory farms. "They grow them way faster than they're supposed to and it causes all sorts of problems,' he said. AI-native companies have a chance to keep their org charts smaller and also more fluid, even compared with other startups. While it's not unusual for employees of early-stage companies to wear many hats, one of the promises of AI is that it will extend the range of each person, like the product managers now making prototypes at Daydream. Microsoft's Spataro said he's noticed that AI-native firms tend to employ more generalists. Since AI tools can often handle narrowly defined tasks traditionally given to specialists, "understanding the business end to end proves more valuable,' he said. But working at an AI-native startup still requires at least one special skill: proficiency using AI. Shortwave, a startup making AI-powered tools for managing email, cut its staff to six from 15 after parting ways with employees whose AI use wasn't up to par, said founder and CEO Andrew Lee. While he plans to add back a few more people, keeping a small headcount doesn't worry him. He's betting on swift execution to stay competitive – powered by agents, not layers of middle management. "We need to optimise our team for a small number of highly cross-functional people where we can move super fast,' he said. "Our moat is going to become speed.' – Bloomberg
Forbes
15-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
ENHYPEN At Coachella, Walk The Line World Tour Confirm Stadium Status
Following a fantastic debut at Coachella 2025, ENHYPEN define a new level of global stage presence by cementing its status as a stadium act. On Saturday, April 13, ENHYPEN took to the Sahara stage for a 45-minute set that opened with the septet supported by a full backing band, 12 dancers, and a massive declaration displayed across the stage's giant LED lights to 'FUEL THE FEVER' in reference to the group's 2021 track. Eldest member Heeseung delivered a gutsy greeting to the crowd, shouting, 'Coachella, what's good?!' before Ni-Ki kicked off the set's opening number in the rock-out anthem 'Blockbuster.' Clad in custom-made denim outfits courtesy of Prada — a nod to their longstanding partnership as ambassadors to the luxury brand — the guys opted to showcase many of their singles and tracks predominantly drawn from their latest album, Romance: Untold (Daydream), as well as a few fan-favorite album cuts like the aforementioned 'Blockbuster.' Even fellow festival performer Lisa (who had rocked the same Sahara stage the previous night with her solo Coachella debut) was spotted enjoying the set. The BLACKPINK member was reportedly swaying along to the performance of 'XO (Only If You Say Yes)' in particular, making it clear that the festivals' other superstars were all eager to check out ENHYPEN's stage. In true ENHYPEN fashion, the band's connection with their fans — affectionately known as ENGENEs — remains at the forefront. Following their Coachella triumph, the guys took to a live stream to announce an upcoming EP release scheduled for June 5, further fueling the excitement and chatter about the group across social media. Building on the momentum from their Coachella performance, ENHYPEN followed up with the announcement of the U.S. and European leg of their 'WALK THE LINE' World Tour, which not only signals their latest major live venture but signals another evolutionary leap in their career. The new leg of the trek is set to kick off on August 6 with two consecutive nights at Belmont Park's UBS Arena in New York and will take the group across major cities including Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, London, Manchester, Amsterdam, Brussels and Berlin. It culminates in what's sure to be a stellar show at Paris' Accor Arena on September 3. In particular, ENHYPEN solidifies their status as stadium performers in the U.S. with the August 16 show at BMO Stadium, which follows ENHYPEN previously booking their first U.S. stadium during their Fate World Tour at the Dignity Health Sports Park in the Los Angeles area in October 2023. Moving from the Coachella stage to booking a new stadium is the latest step in the ongoing international progress for Jungwon, Heeseung, Jay, Sunghoon, Jake, Sunoo and Ni-Ki. Now, with a catchy, new English pop single in 'Loose,' promoted by a pre-Coachella performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! ahead of hitting The Jennifer Hudson Show on April 16, ENHYPEN feel poised to specifically impact the world's largest music industry in the United States. The mix of these exciting events points to how the group is captivating longtime fans and finding significant ways to appeal to new listeners. While tickets for ENHYPEN's 'Walk the Line' World Tour go on sale to the general public on Friday, April 25 at 4PM U.S. local time, fans can participate in the ENGENE membership presale to get tickets up to two days early. Fans wishing to participate in the presale need to apply in advance. All the specific date and time information is available at ENHYPEN's hub. Aug 6 - Belmont Park, NY - UBS Arena Aug 7 - Belmont Park, NY - UBS Arena Aug 9 - Chicago, IL - United Center Aug 12 - Houston, TX - Toyota Center Aug 13 - Houston, TX - Toyota Center Aug 16 - Los Angeles, CA - BMO Stadium Aug 22 - London, UK - The O2 Aug 25 - Manchester, UK - AO Arena Aug 28 - Amsterdam, NL - Ziggo Dome Aug 30 - Brussels, BE - ING Arena Sept 1 - Berlin, DE - Uber Arena Sept 3 - Paris, FR - Accor Arena All 2025 ENHYPEN tour information is available at
Martechvibe
11-04-2025
- Business
- Martechvibe
SBI Growth Advisory Acquires Daydream's AI Platform
Integrating strategy, structure, talent, and data, SBI will now embed AI at the core of its approach. SBI Growth Advisory (SBI) announced its acquisition of Daydream's AI Business Intelligence (BI) Platform, reimagining what go-to-market consulting is. Integrating strategy, structure, talent, and data, SBI will now embed AI at the core of its approach. This move merges cutting-edge technology with expert strategy to unlock new levels of commercial growth for its clients. Renamed ACE, the platform is an advanced AI-powered business intelligence engine developed over five years. ACE goes beyond the capabilities of traditional BI tools – connecting siloed Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success data, interpreting conversational nuances, adding critical business context, and enriching insights through extensive industry and third-party research. The result is unparalleled data integrity and precision, delivering deeper, more strategic, and immediately actionable insights. 'The 2024 Harvard Business Review article 'Why Consistent Growth is So Challenging' describes what our clients know – growth requires connectivity between strategic vision and system execution. SBI solves this challenge and brings a new level of precision and speed by combining data-driven decisions with human-driven execution,' said Mike Hoffman, CEO of SBI. 'In the hands of our practitioners, ACE enhances our ability to structure, enrich, and analyse commercial, financial, and talent data to accelerate identification of inefficiencies and enable precise course corrections that drive sustained performance.' ALSO READ: EngageLab Unveils AI-Powered Omnichannel Customer Engagement Innovations 'We created Daydream to bring AI leverage to operational teams, who face challenges around siloed data and business context,' said Isaac Silverman, CEO of Daydream. 'Integrating into SBI realises our vision at scale within the world's largest enterprises. AI and human partnership provide end-to-end value – enabling leaders to spot growth opportunities, and act on them quickly and effectively.' 'Daydream is a market-leading business intelligence tool, which in the hands of SBI's experts will deliver tremendous value to clients,' said Nick Toman, SBI's Chief Product & Transformation Officer. 'This investment places unrivaled analytic horsepower into the hands of our practitioners to help clients quantify and realise their growth potential.' This acquisition represents the future of go-to-market strategy consulting – where AI and human experts seamlessly bridge the gap between data, insights, and action to transform how businesses make critical decisions. ALSO READ: Honeycomb Acquires Grit to Accelerate Customer Value Blue Prism is a global software provider, offering ROM 2, an intelligent automation implementation methodology that empowers teams to scale their digital workflow. 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Its pre-built APIs include net promote score (NPS), customer effort score (CES), and customer satisfaction (CSAT) surveys, allowing marketers to strengthen their customer loyalty strategy. VISIT WEBSITE Medallia is a comprehensive platform, enabling marketers to capture feedback from all customer touch points. Some of its popular feedback management software capabilities include Sense360 for analysing consumer spending, Medallia Video to automatically extract meaningful insights from customer's feedbacks and Agile Research for creating branded surveys in real-time. VISIT WEBSITE Zeotap lets brands integrate, unify, segment and orchestrate customer data, fostering a cookieless future. It offers a 'Non-Customer Entity Data' feature that helps marketers to integrate both customer and non-customer entity data. VISIT WEBSITE Twilio provides, Twilio Segment, an AI-powered CDP, enabling marketers to streamline their personalised customer engagement journeys. It brings together clean, consented customer data for real-time insights with 450+ pre-built connectors. VISIT WEBSITE Syntasa provides data-ready CDP capabilities, equipping marketers with essential tools to prepare their customer data. It offers real-time sentiment analytics capabilities, helping enterprises derive behavioural insights from unified user profiles to foster hyper-personalised experiences. VISIT WEBSITE SAP is a company-wide customer data management platform, helping marketers improve engagement, conversion, and retention. It offers a genAI-powered data model, enabling enterprises to unify their B2B and B2C customers' profiles to reach their personalisation goals. VISIT WEBSITE Oracle is a global database management company, providing CDP solutions, under its flagship product: Oracle Unity. Its AI-powered models enable marketers to create hyper-personsalised campaigns with predictive insights by streamlining real-time customer data from heterogeneous sources. VISIT WEBSITE Growthloop is a composable CDP platform, allowing marketing and sales team to action their data at scale. It offers GrowthLoop Audience Builder, enabling marketers to initiate their lead generation functions. VISIT WEBSITE Adobe Experience Cloud offers a real-time CDP, letting users create high-value audience segments for B2C and B2B use cases across their marketing funnel. It follows a cookieless marketing approach to automatically unify customer data across various online and offline channels in real-time. VISIT WEBSITE ActionIQ is a composable CDP platform that offers audience segmentation, acquisition marketing, and Customer 360 capabilities. It integrates analytical tools, enabling marketers to collect and analyse their first-party customer data at scale. VISIT WEBSITE Zoho CRM leverages automation and comprehensive analytics to empower any sales team, fostering stronger customer loyalty. 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VISIT WEBSITE Salesforce is a one-stop sales and support CRM software that regularly updates customer records, tracks emails and calls, and creates organised support processes for quicker customer responses. Its simple and scalable infrastructure is ideal for businesses of all sizes. VISIT WEBSITE Pipedrive stands out with its emphasis on automation, tailorability, and seamless integration. Purposefully built to enhance the efficiency and productivity of sales professionals, this CRM solution has an intuitive setup and robust capabilities. It facilitates lead generation, comprehensive sales analytics, and seamless business expansion. VISIT WEBSITE Oracle NetSuite CRM, a component of Oracle's business software suite, is for all midsize and booming businesses that want a comprehensive, integrated CRM solution with ERP capabilities. Using it, customers and partners can directly interact with the platform, freeing the additional work load for their sales team. 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Some of its features include intuitive visual editing, headless delivery, marketing automation, scalable personalisation, data and machine learning capabilities. VISIT WEBSITE Salesforce Experience Cloud is a platform that helps enterprises link clients, partners, and employees to securely exchange information and documents. Built on its Customer 360 platform, Salesforce's DXP ensures seamless integration with any solution in the Salesforce ecosystem. VISIT WEBSITE Oracle Cloud offers a comprehensive suite of platform-based marketing automation solutions for personalised B2B and B2C automation campaigns. Some of its featured products are Eloqua Marketing Automation, CrowdTwist Loyalty and Engagement, and Unity Customer Data Platform. VISIT WEBSITE Optimizely is a digital experience platform (DXP) provider that offers Optimizely One, an easy-to-use and fully integrated suite. 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Los Angeles Times
18-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Field Trip: ArtCult members explore the local art community
A pause in the rain in Irvine last week was welcomed by art enthusiasts who gathered at Unveil Gallery to see its latest exhibition, 'Daydream.' Members of the Orange County Museum of Art's ArtCult received a private tour from Unveil Gallery director Lorraine Han of the new exhibition featuring seven contemporary artists. 'This show is about reality and illusion,' Han explained as she led the group through the exhibition, which explores the act of daydreaming and other themes of escapism. The private tour was a special treat and one of the perks ArtCult members receive with their membership. Created by the Orange County Museum of Art with young professionals, collectors and philanthropists in mind, ArtCult hosts bimonthly social and educational opportunities at OCMA and beyond. 'ArtCult is a unique opportunity for members to not only engage with programs that are happening at OCMA, like artists talks, exhibition previews, art and happy hours, but it is also a chance to get off site, away from the museum and into the community,' said Brittany Delany director of foundation, corporate and government giving at the Orange County Museum of Art. The ArtCult membership includes artist walk-throughs of new OCMA exhibitions as well as private collection tours and studio visits in the Southern California area. When one ArtCult member suggested taking the group on 'fields trips' Delany began organizing opportunities for members to explore the art scene beyond the OCMA's Costa Mesa campus. 'In the summer we did a field trip to the Coast Mesa/Newport Beach area to visit a collector's house as well as a gallery,' Delany said. 'This year, in the spirit of field trips, we have gone to Los Angeles and today we are in Irvine. We have some other destinations coming up soon.' At Unveil Gallery, Han directed the group's eye to a collection of Polaroid-sized hyper-realistic paintings on the wall by visual artist Mary Henderson. 'All of the paintings are inspired by photos Mary took at her nearby neighborhood park,' said Han. 'You probably have to move a little closer to see people's expressions in each work.' The group leaned in to take in the details Henderson highlighted with intention within the tight frame of each painting; the texture of woman's hair or the curve of a child's face. 'Your comment about the Polaroid feel is really true; they feel so sweet and personal,' one member commented. 'It is almost like they have a filter on them, like the pre-Instagram days filter pack,' said another. The discussion with other art-minded individuals is part of the draw for members who may be established art collectors or artists themselves. 'I have had a really good time connecting with members of ArtCult who are artists, who are collectors, who are gallerists or people like me who just like to see art,' Delany said. 'I have also met people who don't know where to start when it comes to being an art collector.' While the ArtCult membership is priced at $1,000 annually, OCMA also offers other membership options at different price points. Admission to the museum is always free. 'Heidi Zuckerman, our chief executive officer and director at OCMA, believes that art is for everyone and art is a human right,' Delany noted. Regular memberships in the museum start at $100 a year and include benefits like discounts on OCMA merchandise and at OCMA's cafe and restaurant, Verdant. Delany emphasizes joining is also a wonderful way to connect. 'The other reason people have become members is to have a fun place to go and to have a social network,' said Delany. To join ArtCult or to learn more about upcoming ArtCult events email membership@ To become an OCMA member, visit 'Daydream' is on view at Unveil Gallery until March 28.
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Korea Herald
10-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Korea Herald
[Grace Kao] BTS J-Hope's ‘Sweet Dreams' an update to ‘Daydream'
J-Hope of BTS released the new single 'Sweet Dreams,' featuring Miguel, on Friday. Like an increasing number of K-pop songs, it was released at midnight in the eastern US to match the start of the week for the US Billboard Hot 100 Charts. The song is R&B and pop, with a memorable chorus and hook. It is also a love song. And unlike most of BTS' discography, the love is directed at one person and not to the BTS fandom Army. However, what was most notable for me were the parallels to his 2018 solo single, 'Daydream.' J-Hope is known to be meticulous, so these similarities are likely intentional. 'Sweet Dreams' and 'Daydream' both express the wish to escape the confines of celebrity. First, the music videos for both songs clock in at exactly 3:48. They both begin with J-Hope asleep in a small bedroom. In 'Daydream,' he is wearing a blue-and-white striped shirt. In 'Sweet Dreams,' his blanket is in the same blue-and-white striped pattern. A red cutout in 'Daydream' is repeated with the red hoodie he wears in 'Sweet Dreams,' as well. In the new video, his room is in a house flying above a nondescript American suburban town. The walls in this house move just as those in 'Daydream.' In the prior video, he peeks through the white blinds, but we cannot tell if he sees anything. His room becomes a fishbowl in which he is trapped. In the new song, he also peeks through white blinds, but we see him floating above the town. Later, we'll see that the J-Hope in the floating house sees the alternate J-Hope on the ground. The lyrics for 'Daydream' fantasize about a life other than as an idol where he is allowed to act freely. He sings: So what, I get drunk/ Until I go crazy/ So what, I go out/ Don't think about work/ Let's just feel the youth/ Young, wild and free/ Wild and free/ Let me give it a try. In 'Daydream,' J-Hope sits on a bed floating in outer space. The song references 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Harry Potter' and 'A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.' 'Sweet Dreams' later shows J-Hope in a flying car. I do not know why there is a dust mop in the car with him. Perhaps this is from the construction crew working on his crumbling house. Does this represent either his fear of or hope for the loss of fame? He wears Fendi slippers in the old video, but Louis Vuitton slippers in the new one, but after all he is now a global brand ambassador for Louis Vuitton. I also think they both symbolize the shackles of his celebrity life. Finally, both songs end with him back in the bedroom that he appears in at the beginning of the music videos. In 'Sweet Dreams,' the alternate J-Hope who lives in the town below meets his girlfriend. The J-Hope in 'Daydream' only talks about falling in love. However, it is implied that the J-Hope in 'Sweet Dreams' has experienced a relationship, as a construction worker finds a photo of him and his girlfriend and we see evidence of two iced coffees. The apartment is also full of pairs of items. Still, the J-Hope in both music videos sleeps in a single bed at both the beginning and end of the music videos. The new song is completely in English and the lyrics are those of a typical love song. For example, the refrain goes: Sweet dreams come after hours/ Nothin' that's not allowed/ you should never sleep alone/ Cuz I'll always take you home/ When there's nothing left but diamond necklace on you, girl. The hook is basically J-Hope saying he will love her and that she will love him back. There is no suggestion of heartbreak. To promote this song, J-Hope has appeared nonstop on Korean television, including hit shows 'I Live Alone' and 'Please Take Care of My Refrigerator.' In the US, he is scheduled to appear on 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.' He also recently held concerts in Seoul, and on Thursday he will begin the US segment of his tour. Moreover, he filmed a 12-hour Weverse Live on Friday that attracted 26.9 million views. This is an all-time record, besting bandmate Jungkook's record of 20 million views on a five-hour broadcast on the platform. Regarding the two songs, one happy interpretation is that J-Hope in 2025 has at last experienced romantic love. The new music video shows him flying above an American town and expresses his desire to dominate the US market. The older song is in Korean and English, while the new song is entirely in English. Otherwise, there is remarkable continuity between the old and new J-Hope, and that will keep fans like me happy. Grace Kao is an IBM professor of sociology and professor of ethnicity, race and migration at Yale University. The views expressed here are the writer's own. -- Ed.
