Most AI Startups Are Doomed

Please vote for my panel at the SXSW conference! 🙏

Dear Friends,

I hope you’re enjoying the last few weeks of summer!

As always, I'm so very grateful for your incredible support of my work on AI Health Uncut! 🙏

I have a small favor to ask. My distinguished colleagues (listed below) and I have applied for a spot on the stage at the prestigious SXSW conference in March 2025 in Austin, TX. This annual event is a major gathering that covers a wide range of topics, including AI, politics, the environment, music, film, and more:  https://www.sxsw.com/conference/.

We applied some time ago, made it through the initial screening, and are now excited to be eligible for the public vote.

Please consider voting for our panel, “Most AI Startups Are Doomed”, to be featured at the SXSW conference in March 2025: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/149806.

To vote, you’ll need to be registered with SXSW, which you can do here: https://id.sxsw.com/sign_up.

The last day of voting is Sunday, August 18, 2024. Please vote now!

Panel Speakers:

• James Wang, General Partner, Creative Ventures

• Chidi Nwankpa, Co-Founder, GlobalHealth AI

• Sergei Polevikov, Co-Founder and AI Advisor, WellAI

• Brandon Basso, Senior Director of Simulation, Cruise

As this week’s Wall Street Journal article pointed out,

Despite raising billions last year, “many [AI startups] are struggling to survive—and asking Silicon Valley’s biggest companies to bail them out.”

This discussion is timely, as it’s crucial to learn from the failures of AI startups so that, as an industry, we can improve both genuine innovation and capital allocation within the AI sector, including AI in healthcare.

Thank you so much for your vote, and of course, for your ongoing support of AI Health Uncut! 🙏

Sergei

P.S. Update: Our panel got approved! I’m super grateful for your vote of confidence. Hope to see y’all at SXSW (aka the “Coachella of the Southwest”) in Austin, TX on March 8, 2025! 🌵🤠