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Fast Company released its annual Most Innovative Companies list, and we are incredibly proud of our #clients who were featured. Fast Company recognized Indeed’s excellence in #AI with a recent product, AI Job Description Generator, that leverages OpenAI’s ChatGPT with Indeed’s machine learning expertise and knowledge of millions of job descriptions to draft core job descriptions in under five seconds. Glassdoor is honored as a top innovator in the workplace with the launch of Communities. To further showcase the need for radical transparency in the workplace, Glassdoor created Communities—a place where job seekers and employees can connect authentically and anonymously for real conversations about work and life. Congratulations to both teams on these impressive achievements and to everyone at Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd. working to Simplify Hiring. https://lnkd.in/ekxmwYzp Learn more about Indeed’s AI Job Description Generator: https://lnkd.in/e46mYbj2 Read about Glassdoor’s launch of Communities: https://lnkd.in/ejAP6qaT #FCMostInnovative #futureofwork

To kick off 2024, I'm going to be doing some Building in Public. I've always been a fan of radical transparency. Two of the startups that I co-founded were eventually acquired based on how public we were about what we were working on right from the beginning. New ideas can be a little bit fragile, so my philosophy is to do enough research to get excited about the opportunity, then go execute. If you keep researching, you're going to find lots of compelling reasons why the idea won't work and you're going to talk yourself out of trying. The trying, and learning, and building is where the fun is and how you create value. And sometimes the value you create or discover isn't even what you set out to build (I've sold a company for high seven figures where the acquirer wasn't interested in the problem we solved, but a different application of the tech entirely). As someone who's spent the past six years on management teams, I'm personally very interested in human social connection and its relationship to employee engagement in a world of increasingly diverse and remote teams. I'm also interested in how a social networking approach, turbocharged by ML and AI, could be leveraged to address some of the challenges in that area. The result is TeamSpark.ai. This project draws upon on my background in building cloud services and mobile apps, and in collaborative filtering, combined with some really great new AI technology. I've *really* enjoyed getting my hands dirty and "building" (coding) over the past couple of months. The velocity that can be achieved with contemporary cloud services and tooling, modern frameworks, dev tools, AI services (and, of course, Copilot) is pretty amazing. So check out the website. And if you've been a fan of my manifestos, fear not, there is the start of one at https://lnkd.in/g6E6SZqB (I tried to write a "one-pager", but three pages was the best I could do). #buildinginpublic https://www.teamspark.ai

We got featured on Verge?! Much to the chagrin of my co-founder, I am a serial procrastinator when it comes to posting on social media. I would rather go for a 10km run than post a single social media post. Reposting and liking Pebblely's posts represents the vast majority of my social media activity. But once in a while, something happens that deserves special mention. Yes, we were featured on Verge. Well, strictly speaking, Pebblely Fashion was the main subject of one of Verge's Instagram Reels. And not for a great reason, but it was for a pretty funny one! The reel shows how our AI fumbles with an input image of a long-sleeve top and creates a series of hilariously deformed images. More importantly though, when I happily shared this with a friend, I was asked, "Don't you feel bad that they're laughing at your product?" And to my own surprise, I truly wasn't. In all honesty, I was, and still am, quite happy that something I took part in building was featured on Verge, and on a video bearing Intel's name no less. Sure, the video could have gone better. But I'm happy that we took a shot at a difficult problem and built something cool. Not all shots score a goal, but you do have to take a shot. And missed shots are worth celebrating too. I also hope this post serves as a reminder for my fellow founders (and my future self) to keep taking your shots! Nothing wrong with being not good enough yet. Have a good laugh, and keep going. (For what it's worth, I swear all of the images on our landing page were truly generated with our AI pipeline, with zero touch up. It's just that the AI tends to be a littttle picky about the inputs 😅 ) Here's the link to the reel! https://lnkd.in/gqEc2Hpd

Hey LinkedIn & AI Community, it’s time to introduce myself! I’m Emilia, 30 years old, living in Padua, Italy (where I’m from). That’s about the personal information. Now the turn to LinkedIn relevance: I’m obsessed with AI and how it’s going to disrupt our future way of working together. In my young twenties, when nobody knew what AI was, I started with developing websites as a side hustle while studying. Yes, I’m a Techie woman and I’m owning it. 😎 From building websites, I’ve come here: Building AI employees. Together with the team at Reruption GmbH, including Philipp M. W. Hoffmann & Christian Ensslen With AutoMates as our product name, we're tackling the future of work head-on. 🦾 Imagine empowering your team with AI colleagues designed to enhance productivity, especially in areas hit hardest by talent shortages - like Compliance, Sales, and HR. As we face the demographic shift and a push towards higher education, the scarcity of skilled workers will only intensify, leading to a decline in competitiveness, stagnation of growth, and, ultimately, financial losses for businesses. 📉 The call for a 4-day workweek and a shift away from repetitive tasks towards more remote work setups are transforming employee expectations, posing a dilemma for employers. Sound familiar? That's precisely why AutoMates was born. We believe in a future where AI employees make up up to 50% of the workforce, not replacing but amplifying human potential. Imagine doubling your team's effectiveness without doubling the payroll, driving revenue while maintaining costs. 📈 So, how do you see AI shaping the future of your company? PS: If you're intrigued by the idea of AI teammates, let's chat. ✉️

This sentence should be assumed for all projects you start: "improvement slowed [and efforts raised] significantly for each subsequent 1% gain." This is from an article I just read about how LinkedIn implemented Gen AI into their app: "...building with generative AI is refreshingly straightforward. But it also creates unattainable expectations, the initial pace created a false sense of ‘almost there,’ which became discouraging as the rate of improvement slowed significantly for each subsequent 1% gain." I can't believe how much the Pareto principle still surprises people. Isn't it well-known already? Having a good baseline is much easier than going for perfection.

Launched a new feature on My AI Cofounder last night: The Task Marketplace There's a ton of work you need to get done as a founder, and let's be honest: a bunch of it can be done by someone else. But it takes time to identify people, figure out which tasks to assign them, how much to pay them, etc. With this marketplace, simply mark one of your tasks as public and let people bid on them. The smartest founders will turn these tasks into their hiring pipeline, giving people a chance to showcase their work in low stakes tasks, and building up to bigger responsibility. For the founders who understand how to utilize data properly, this is their chance to start moving way faster than traditional systems.

I started my career during the height of the dot-com boom and moved to the Bay Area just before the crash. I've been thinking a lot lately about the similarities between those early days of the internet and the moment we're in today with AI. Here's a little piece I wrote (and that PRWeek was kind enough to publish) that I hope will be helpful to communicators who are navigating this new tech landscape. https://lnkd.in/gVsGwYim

It’s great to be back in Brisbane, this time for the “Future of Search” event in front of 100+ marketers full of curiosity and some great questions. The organisers curated an impressive line up of speakers, including our very own Renee Stopps who shared how AI is helping advertisers find growth in new ways. A key takeaway was to lean into generative AI today before you get left behind. Our recently published Work Trend Index with our partners at LinkedIn highlights how AI raises the bar and breaks the career ceiling for employees. For more info, check out the comments. Greg Nelson Mark McCarthy #microsoftadvertising #generativeai #interactiveminds #futureofsearch

What do you think about the new LinkedIn AI Assistant? It's a new feature for premium accounts that prompts you to learn more about a particular company or topic when it appears in a post in your LinkedIn feed. Some interesting use cases: ✅ To direct you to other content and research that is related to the topic of the post you are interested in ✅ To learn more about a company or person you are interested in working for or with It's still in its early stages - the first few prompts under this post of mine weren't particularly useful and just regurgitated back what I wrote in my post. I had to prompt it further to get it to serve up some new content to me. What do you think? #virtualleadership #hybridleadership #distributedteams

Join us Tuesday, November 14 for another awesome Startup Week event on leveraging AI for your business - Bots Before Bros: Getting Started with AI As a small business owner or startup founder, you likely wear all the hats all the time. You'd love to hire someone to take over this or that, but it's not in the budget, or maybe you just haven't written the job description. Who has time for that?? We're excited to welcome Philip Williams, digital marketing guru, AI expert, and Founder/CEO of SermoSuite, to share how AI can take those pesky time-consuming tasks off your plate and bridge those inefficiency gaps. Learn more and RSVP here - https://lnkd.in/gkcJ-XHY