Mercury Fund

Claire Vo: How OpenClaw Agents Transformed My Life

Claire Vo, host of the How I AI podcast and founder of ChatPRD, describes moving from skeptic to advocate for OpenClaw agents. She runs nine OpenClaw agents across Mac Minis and older laptops and walks through installation, setup, and common pitfalls (e.g., avoid installing on a primary machine). The episode shares concrete use cases — family scheduling, inbound sales, podcast preparation, and course management — and argues for many specialized agents over a single general-purpose agent. It also discusses security risks, browser and memory limitations, practical workarounds, and references related tools such as Mercury (banking), Omni (AI analytics) and Orkes (agentic workflows).

Founders Turbocharge Sales with AI-Powered Go-To-Market Strategies

An a16z speedrun newsletter describes how early-stage founders are using agentic AI and browser-control tools to automate prospecting, enrichment, outreach, and trust-artifact production, enabling founder-led GTM without dedicated sales hires. The piece highlights two converging capabilities—computer-use (browser-control) agents and inexpensive automated outbound pipelines—and gives concrete examples: Snapp automates LinkedIn prospecting with a browser agent and Dripify; Bilrost built an end-to-end pipeline using Clay, Lemlist and Attio to sell into conservative verticals like lenders. Founders also use AI to produce security and compliance artifacts (SOC 2 readiness, vendor LOIs) to unblock enterprise deals. The newsletter lists multi-model and orchestration stacks (GPT-4.1, Claude 3.7, Gemini 1.5, Tavily, Apify, LangGraph) and provides practical replication steps while warning this is an early window before automated spam becomes widespread.

Criteo ernennt neuen Executive Vice President Marketing

Criteo appointed Elie Kanaan as Executive Vice President Marketing, responsible for global product marketing and worldwide marketing and communications. Kanaan previously served as VP of Marketing EMEA at VMware and has held roles at SAP, Mercury, and Oracle. CEO Eric Eichmann welcomed the move, highlighting it as part of expanding Criteo's global leadership team and sustaining growth. The company emphasizes eleven consecutive quarters of growth and aims to continue advancing its product offerings and advertising solutions with strengthened marketing leadership. Kanaan's enterprise software marketing background across EMEA and experience at multiple tech vendors are expected to shape Criteo's marketing strategy and global go-to-market initiatives in a competitive programmatic landscape.