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NEA’s Tiffany Luck on AI IPOs, personal agents, and the ROI reckoning | AI BriefWire

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NEA’s Tiffany Luck on AI IPOs, personal agents, and the ROI reckoning

Tiffany Luck from NEA discusses the recent hype and challenges around AI investments and usage in Silicon Valley. Companies like Uber and Meta are facing budget and ROI pressures after heavy AI spending. This highlights a growing need for sustainable AI strategies in businesses.

NEA’s Tiffany Luck on AI IPOs, personal agents, and the ROI reckoning

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NEA partner Tiffany Luck joins Equity to talk about the future of personal agents, her thoughts on this year's AI IPOs, and how startups are stepping in to help enterprises track return on AI spend.

Tokenmaxxing was the hottest trend in Silicon Valley earlier this year, with CEOs encouraging employees to push AI usage as far as it would go. Then the bill came due. Uber reportedly blew through its annual AI budget in a few months, some companies cut Claude licenses for parts of their org, and Meta killed its internal leaderboard.

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This tension between hype and ROI is exactly where NEA partner Tiffany Luck lives these days. She got her start convincing companies that e-commerce was the future, and now she’s all in on AI, especially when it comes to the possibilities for “magic moments” in the consumer business.

On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Luck joins Rebecca Bellan to talk about the future of personal agents, her thoughts on this year’s AI IPOs, and how startups are stepping in to help enterprises track return on AI spend.

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Rebecca Bellan is a senior reporter at TechCrunch where she covers the business, policy, and emerging trends shaping artificial intelligence. Her work has also appeared in Forbes, Bloomberg, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, and other publications.

You can contact or verify outreach from Rebecca by emailing rebecca.bellan@techcrunch.com or via encrypted message at rebeccabellan.491 on Signal.

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