Archive - foxmaestro

I hired Soham Parekh (but you all fell for his media stunt)

A story on dishonesty, and the hilariousness of tech becoming Idiocracy

Jul 4 •

Antonio Bustamante

May 2025

Salesforce buys Informatica. Welcome to the American Zaibatsu.

Enterprise software is consolidating into full-stack empires. AI is the accelerant. Data is the weapon.

May 27 •

Antonio Bustamante

Software exceptionalism is over

AI killed the software moat

May 23 •

Antonio Bustamante

April 2025

How to lie to investors about your ARR

and how to easily spot those lies

Apr 17 •

Antonio Bustamante

March 2025

AI grifters are making our job harder

Building software is my profession, and I do it honestly. I rather quit software than participate in the circus.

Mar 28 •

Antonio Bustamante

December 2024

We Need to Stop Anthropomorphizing AI

Ever since I started building AI 10 years ago—back when I was working on Kite—I’ve noticed a persistent trend in the way we frame AI to the world.

Dec 10, 2024 •

Antonio Bustamante

Software dies in darkness

In an era of yapping, code proliferates, shortcuts abound, and innovation takes a back seat. I want to play a different game.

Dec 2, 2024 •

Antonio Bustamante

May 2024

Let's kill Software

Long live Software 3.0

May 9, 2024 •

Antonio Bustamante

April 2024

Request for tech for good (2024): food insecurity and mental health

I'll try to keep this short.

Apr 28, 2024 •

Antonio Bustamante

March 2024

From the publicani to AI VC - 5,000 years of venture capital

Technology has a way of disintermediating markets, but it also tends to consolidate them.

Mar 5, 2024 •

Antonio Bustamante

February 2024

What I look for in people - How I recruit and hire

I was running the numbers.

Feb 12, 2024 •

Antonio Bustamante

December 2023

Every year around this time I write a little retrospective on yearly highlights and learnings, but this is the first year since I have done it where I…

Dec 23, 2023 •

Antonio Bustamante

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