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KillerStartups
January 27, 2025
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Plus, we’ve got fresh insights, exciting news, and a brand-new Featured Podcast episode to keep you inspired and informed. Let’s make this week count—let’s go! 💥
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Weekly Sponsor
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Featured Startups
KillerStartups’ Mission is to help entrepreneurs achieve the next big thing. Our role is to connect you with founders you can help, and founders who can help you!
When we featured Uber in 2010, Founder Travis Kalanick might have still been your driver.
Uber raised their first $1.6MM three months after we featured them. $4.9B later, we are still proud to have discovered them.
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Weekly Featured Podcast
Performance Podcast E10: Krystal and Dedric Polite
30-Second News Picks
DeepSeek sparks global AI selloff, Nvidia losses about $593 billion of value - Reuters
Image Credits: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Our 30-Second Summary:
Global technology stocks experienced a sharp selloff after the launch of DeepSeek, a Chinese startup's free, cost-efficient AI assistant, disrupted the dominance of AI leaders like Nvidia. DeepSeek's models, praised for their low-cost efficiency, surpassed ChatGPT in downloads, triggering a $592.7 billion market cap loss for Nvidia and a broader market decline. The Nasdaq fell 3.1%, with Nvidia, Broadcom, and Microsoft as major drags, while global semiconductor stocks saw steep losses. DeepSeek's AI models, which are 20–50 times cheaper than OpenAI's, mark a "Sputnik moment" for AI, raising questions about the "bigger is better" paradigm. Despite the downturn, some investors see the selloff as an opportunity to buy high-quality tech stocks, emphasizing that data center chip demand remains lucrative. The development highlights a shift in the AI landscape, with DeepSeek's innovation spurring global ripples across tech and financial markets.
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Sports coffee – not just for the ‘average Joe’ - Food Business News
Our 30-Second Summary:
Michael Fedele, a seasoned executive in the sports nutrition beverage industry with experience at Powerade, vitaminwater, and Body Armor, founded Throne Sport Coffee in May 2024 to address the gap in ready-to-drink coffee tailored for active lifestyles. The brand offers five flavors, formulated with 50 calories, 8 grams of sugar, 150 mg of caffeine, B vitamins, electrolytes, and amino acids, appealing to health-conscious consumers. Notable for its low-calorie, dairy-free options, Throne Sport Coffee is designed to energize without weighing consumers down, distinguishing itself from coffee-flavored energy drinks. Partnered with NFL star Patrick Mahomes as lead investor and supported by other professional athletes and industry leaders, the brand is available in 5,000 retail outlets with plans to double in 2025. Throne Sport Coffee aims to innovate and grow the ready-to-drink coffee category, catering to mainstream and fitness-oriented consumers alike.
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Nvidia sheds almost $600 billion in market cap, biggest one-day loss in U.S. history - CNBC
Image Credits: Patrick T. Fallon | Afp | Getty Images
Our 30-Second Summary:
Nvidia experienced a historic one-day loss in market value on January 27, 2025, shedding nearly $600 billion, the largest single-day drop for a U.S. company. The 17% stock decline, triggered by fears of increased competition from China's AI lab DeepSeek, marked Nvidia's worst market day since March 2020. DeepSeek recently unveiled a cost-effective open-source AI model, raising concerns about reduced demand for Nvidia's GPUs, which dominate the AI data center market. The selloff extended to tech stocks like Broadcom, Dell, and Oracle, while Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang, saw his net worth plummet by $21 billion. Despite the setback, analysts believe AI advancements will ultimately boost compute demand, with Nvidia remaining critical to the industry.
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