Another FKA Friday ● 17 July 2026#24

Angelic news from the NZ group that says it how it is □

« 17 July 2026 #24 » 1,641 Readers • 49% Mailchimp • 51% LinkedIn  Tuesday 21 July and it will be another pitch night. Willy Green gives a fine example of a driven succinct pitch. The business, Party on Demand still seems to be operational albeit with negative reviews, and Willy is OPEN TO WORK.  Wayne on Mindhive! But come on Tuesday to hear more from the Mindhive CEO James, and Arash from Kara. Also, two, maybe three new companies. Angels, you know where and when. Guests, pls, REGISTER and get venue details! 'nuff said! Every time we charge for event attendance to cover our costs some of that money goes to support Humanitix causes. $22,715,248, Jack tells you more about it. LOOK!  We don't know if Jenny is a downhill skier, let alone a ski-acrobat, but she is certainly helping founders get up the startup hill with the Morgo program, as testified by several of the founders in the FKA portfolio. CHECK OUT: MORGO 2026 Queenstown. A review of 37 studies examining the impact of LLMs on software development found that while AI accelerates basic coding tasks, this comes at the cost of quality, and increases the time senior developers must spend reviewing and correcting faulty code. In an Upwork survey of 2,500 executives, salaried employees and freelancers, 77 percent of respondents said AI had increased their workload and reduced their productivity. A 2025 meta-analysis of 371 studies on AI’s impact on labor market outcomes, principally, employment and productivity, found that the mean effect was “close to zero and statistically insignificant.” About AI not by AI. READ MORE In 2023, Forbes published a "30 Under 30 Hall of Shame", including Sam Bankman-Fried is serving 25 years for stealing $8 billion in customer funds; Charlie Javice faked user data to sell her startup to JPMorgan Chase and faced fraud charges. Martin Shkreli hiked a life-saving drug's price by 5,000% and was sentenced to seven years in federal prison; Cody Wilson is a registered sex offender. Lucas Duplan, did not commit a crime: he'd raised $30m and built nothing. OMG! Just like the NINE lives of cats □ This looks interesting! It will be on 29 July 2026, 10:00-11:30. MORE HERE!