Roy E. Bahat

Thank you @rweingarten.bsky.social for the speed and vision to build the National Academy for AI Instruction.

AFT to Launch National Academy for AI Instruction with Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic and United Federation of Teachers NEW YORK – The AFT, alongside the United Federation of Teachers and lead partner Microsoft Corp., founding partner OpenAI, and Anthropic, announced the launch of the National Academy for AI…

Read more below — and if you’re a founder or technology leader who believes you have something to offer to this effort, pipe up!

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Through the academy, all teachers in the AFT will have access to free AI training. The first classes start this fall.

We have yet to see an AI-native generation enter the workforce. Today, that’s changing. Let’s make our generations the last ones that couldn’t take full advantage of AI.

A model to prepare workers for the future: organized labor training centers Updated after a 2024 visit

The idea was inspired by other union training centers around the country – see what the carpenters, operating engineers, and hospitality workers have done

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Randi and I talked about this idea for the first time at the union Labor Innovation & Technology Summit in January — she pulled her colleague Rob Weil over within minutes, and, building on work they’d already done with Microsoft, the ball started rolling.

I’m joining the Academy’s board. (I suggested this academy to the AFT, and they brought the partners together fast.)

Thank you to @microsoft.com (and its president Brad Smith), @OpenAI’s @chrislehane, Anthropic’s Jack Clark, Elizabeth Kelly, Deep Ganguli, and others, and of course to AFT president @rweingarten and UFT president Michael Mulgrew.

What a team coming together.

If we can figure out how teachers should teach with and about AI, we can affect the lives of millions of educators, and millions and millions of young people.

And if we can figure out how to train teachers on using AI, maybe we can figure it out for other occupations.

In a world with AI, what will it take for people to thrive in their jobs? The only way to find out is to try.

The first step: unveiling the National Academy for AI Instruction, a teacher training center led by the American Federation of Teachers, with support from Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic.

We love serving founders like Kevin, Erin, and Jay — through all the gruel and delight of building a startup.

Congrats, Kevin and Mike, and to the whole Charter and SF Standard teams. This picture is a few minutes before we just met in San Francisco...

SF Standard has already proven its mettle — Griffin Gaffney, the CEO, has accomplished the rare feat of both quality and momentum for a new publication — and I look forward to seeing where the product goes from here.

And, of course, there’s the gravitas of the acquirer. Mike Moritz, one of the most successful investors of all time, the VC who started as a journalist (and continues to write), makes an acquisition: business journalism of the highest caliber.

He’ll bring the perspectives of the East Coast and its corporate and government leadership (back) to SF (where he once lived).

The SF Standard, which has been such a needed new voice in San Francisco, can now spread its wings even further, and sharpen its beak.

And now, San Francisco gains that wisdom. Kevin will add being the editor-in-chief for the SF Standard, while continuing to oversee Charter — moving from New York to where the AI action is in SF.

Each of them with their own leg of the stool. Charter reaches people professionals, and managers more generally, with modern, practical wisdom on how to work. In particular, they’ve offered one perspective after another on how non-technical people can actually apply AI in business leadership.

Yet I have still not found a journalist with anything but kind words for Kevin? Must be a secret to that.

What he, Erin Grau, @delaneyk.bsky.social, and the team at Charter have built is one of one.

Covering the full gamut of media, at places you’d read about founders like WSJ and NYT, then starting Quartz and, now, building Charter.

Kevin’s calm and principle comes without sacrificing speed or hunger. And when you talk to a journalist about editors, mostly they grouse.

I’ve known Kevin for years — and Eric Ries put us together again 10 years ago to talk about how business was evolving.

Kevin’s rare — dare I say, a unicorn? A successful editorial leader in big-kid journalism, *and* a founder.

Yes, this is great for @charterworks.com and the @sfstandard.com — and a big win for San Francisco and the AI community. I’ll explain.

Bloomberg Beta backed Charter, and we’ve loved working for Kevin, Erin, Jay, and the Charter team. #proudinvestor

He Made Billions on Google and PayPal. Now, He’s Betting on News. Michael Moritz co-founded The San Francisco Standard, a local news organization. It is acquiring Charter, a start-up focused on the future of work.

Another announcement: Mike Moritz’s SF Standard makes their first acquisition (and Mike’s first personal acquisition ever?), Charter — where the future of news meets the future of work.

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Founders are our customers — we don’t want to waste their time.

- Putting out an uncomfortable amount of detail, like what questions we might ask in a first meeting
- Hosting our website on GitHub (last commit was just a few days ago!)
- Explaining how we approach valuation, diligence, and basically everything else we do… if it’s not there, submit a pull request

Typically, when a VC says they’re being transparent, it’s right before they admit they’re investing in your competitor. “Just to be honest…”

TBPN asked me what it means to run the “most transparent venture fund”, and it comes back to who our customers are.

(Founders!)

To us, transparency means:

It was honestly just a good time. Their format is so different. 10 out of 10.

I respect the unabashed. “Capital formation is the highest calling of man…

Thanks for having me… and I have some more thoughts coming on your format.

“Meet your founders where they are” took me to TBPN, to announce our new fund.

While Fund 5 is the first fund we rang in with a gong, it’s also the same as Funds 4, and 3, and 2 and 1… fresh capital in service of our customers, the founders.

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Special place in not-quite-hell-but-close for people who add an extra space after the Zoom link in the Google Calendar location

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If you know a founder who’s a great fit for us, please share this!

"Yes, we are in fact actively investing."

And we’re forever grateful to @michaelrbloomberg.bsky.social, a founder backing us so we can back more founders.

Cycles continue!

And so many others on the team, @mostlyfables.bsky.social, @loriberenberg.bsky.social
and others on the other platforms :)

Our firm is more than our partners, though we did add
@angela-martin.bsky.social to our partnership (her operational leadership keeps the rest of us stable so we can be consistent for founders).