#startups #AI

Great convo with Clootrack on turning Voice of the Customer into real outcomes for #retail & #CPG. New Pegasus Spotlight: how their #AI Super Agent + #MCP server (now in Copilot) drives action, not dashboards 📖 www.linkedin.com/pulse/pegasu... 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0fNs...

#Walmart & #Amazon have retained their positions at the top of the #US #retail market in the latest 2026 Top 100 #Retailers ranking published by the National Retail Federation finance.yahoo.com/media-advert...

looking forward to tracking the #GGR2026 in August goldengloberace.com/skippers/#2026 #sailing

My #AI Agents have been at work again and tapped into a n expense reports conversation here at work to create their latest artwork www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Th... The story behind the AI Agents: shish.substack.com/p/i-let-agen... story behind the AI Agents: shish.substack.com/p/i-let-agen...

My #AI Agents have been at work again and tapped into a n expense reports conversation here at work to create their latest artwork www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/I-... The story behind the AI Agents: shish.substack.com/p/i-let-agen...

this looks interesting: run intensive #AI workloads locally with AMD Ryzen AI Halo, featuring 128 GB unified memory & support for up to 200B parameter models www.amd.com/en/products/...

I stopped asking #AI for the news and asked it what the news means. I gave an agent a job description: read 30+ #retail news sources, skip the headlines, deliver the trends and takeaways. Here's how I built it, instructions included: www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-stop...

I've been experimenting with something fun lately: an #AI agent that reads #startup news, extracts #founder learnings & publishes a #newsletter, on its own using Microsoft Scout : www.linkedin.com/posts/shishs...

Microsoft for #Startups Pegasus spotlight series: Toolio, AI-powered merchandise planning built for #retail & apparel. The standout for me is their #MCP Server, turning the whole planning platform into a capability your in-house #AI agents can call on www.linkedin.com/pulse/startu...

Healthy #startups need friction. The pushback you're tempted to engineer out of your board and leadership team is the same signal that tells you when the strategy is broken. Kill the dissent & you kill your early-warning system. www.inc.com/naomi-carmen...

In the mid-'80s I was deep into #AmateurRadio, and the Sony ICF-7600D (cousin to the ICF-2002) was my very first receiver. No internet back then: just shortwave, hissing & fading across the bands, carrying the whole world into my room... anyone remember these? #hamradio

Looking forward to #windsurfing again (after a 2 year break) at the gorge in June. #hoodriverOR #hoodriver #pnw

Upload a photo → get a 3D-printed figurine of yourself. No humans in the loop. Built Mini Me, my 2nd experiment in autonomous #retail run entirely by #AI agents. The big lesson: don't make agents build everything, let them operate existing tools. www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-p...

Tracking seventy48.com tonight #pnw #seattle #pugetsound #salishsea

yeah.. im that old that I remember receiving these in my mailbox source www.bonanza.com/listings/Rar... #microsoft #tbt

Excited to welcome Buynomics to the Microsoft for Startups Pegasus portfolio. Their agent-based simulation #AI gives #Brands a digital twin of their customer ecosystem to optimize pricing, promotions, & portfolio decisions www.linkedin.com/pulse/buynom... #RGM

Trademo is one of the #startups in our Microsoft for Startups Pegasus portfolio building real solutions for #Retail and #CPG #supplychain compliance. New post on what that actually looks like in practice: www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-j...

One thing 3 decades at a single company teaches you is that a long career and a stagnant one are not the same thing. I reinvented myself more times than I can neatly count www.linkedin.com/posts/shishs... #microsoft #startups #retail

tracking #swiftsure2026 www.swiftsure.org Live Tracker: pro.yb.tl/SIYR26_All_C... #SAILING #PNW

Excited to join #Microsoft for #Startups as we bring the #startup & #developer community together during #MicrosoftBuild with Dev Your Own Way. Register here: msft.it/6048vTTd0

My reflections on the #Microsoft Voluntary Retirement Program shish.substack.com/p/a-crossroa...

𝑹𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒍 & 𝑩𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔: 𝑩𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒂 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈. Join us for an invite‑only evening of food, drinks, and future‑shaping conversations at a beautiful location in #Barcelona on 8 June 2026,  the night before Shoptalk Europe www.linkedin.com/posts/shishs...

If you read about my Agentic AI power #Retail Operation (linkedin.com/pulse/buildi...), here is the latest end to end #AI product: redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Po...

The most expensive workforce decision most companies make is restructuring out experienced talent and calling it transformation. Your next key hire might already work for you www.linkedin.com/posts/shishs... #AI

For years, my passion has been #IoT and connected systems. What fascinates me now is how #AI agents are evolving around the same architectural pattern: 📡 Sensors 🧠 Processors ⚙️ Actuators www.linkedin.com/posts/shishs...

The most valuable insights in your data are hiding in questions you never knew to ask. Spotlighting Microsoft partner DataGenie AI and how proactive analytics is changing what #retail & #CPG teams know about their own business, and when they know it www.linkedin.com/posts/shishs...

The most interesting decision in my autonomous #retail pipeline was which model to assign to which agent and why. Full architecture breakdown here 👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/shishs... #AI #AIAgents #GitHubCopilot

I built a #retail store powered by 3 #AI agents. One scouts trending memes, one generates the artwork, one publishes to a live storefront. The store runs itself. New post on what I built and what it means for retail www.linkedin.com/posts/shishs... #AIAgents #AgenticAI