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“How VCs build conviction and incubate AI companies from scratch”
...incubation idea until you hire someone full time, or is it always fresh team for each new incubation project? So we don't have
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tactical advice32:54 – 33:41
...incubation process, it's very flexible in in that regard. Is that if on our investment team, if one person has conviction to go spend time in an area, we go spend time in that area and carve out and build that opportunity. But naturally, we have to l
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“Rather than starting my own incubator, I'm gonna come in and run Berkeley Skydeck, which is Berkeley and all things great about Berkeley.”
And I I started talking to them, and I thought, rather than starting my own incubator, I'm gonna come in and run Berkeley Skydeck, which is Berkeley and all things great about Berkeley. So that ended
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Origin Story4:16 – 4:32
“Most incubators that are part of a university are very restricted in who can come. We have some restriction, but we've managed to set it up so that we have all the deal flow we need.”
Great question. Because, you know, as you say, most incubators that are part of a university are very restricted in in who can come. So we don't we we have some restriction, but we've managed to set i
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Business Mechanics6:54 – 7:15
the bottom group goes two and a half two just over, yeah, two and a quarter or two and a half. Two and a yeah. Two and a half times in from six to twelve months. So they're growing at a nice pace. The point seven triples to 2.1 and the 2,000,000 now
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that's a dumbass idea for a fund. You should definitely not do it. They just wanted to give you jobs, I'm assuming. Yeah. Well, one of them said that we'd never raise it from the LPs, so we should just raise money from VCs and give the VCs who invest
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It was the Saint Petersburg, Florida Times, hired a Soviet company to or maybe the Soviet government to provide the satellite photos and show that there's nothing but empty desert out there. You know, they'd sent a couple patrols near the border, wha
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...Incubation is kinda, let me, try a bunch of thing. It's not this monomaniacal power law commitment. So if you're just trying to build a trillion dollar business, I think that's not the way to do it. Yeah. But, look, if you like you know, we have a mu
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They did the Iraqi incubators hoax where they brought in a girl who claimed to be a nurse who said that she was in the hospital in Kuwait City when the Iraqi soldiers came in there, stole the incubators, threw the babies out of the incubators onto th
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...incubations worked and others not? Broadly, I think incubations don't work for a number of reasons. I think most firms take too much of the cap table. There's negative selection bias where they don't get the best founders to wanna work with them. The
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which at the time of acquisition was known as overture.com. So to set the the acquisition groundwork here, goto.com was a company that came out of an incubator in the late nineteen nineties. Incubator incubators were hot during the, .com era. And, on
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had set up an in house incubator in LA. I think Best Buy is based in Utah. Right? I don't know. I believe that's where their headquarters is. But they'd set up an innovation incubator in Los Angeles. And the idea was that retail employees this was, l
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...incubation. Incubation is kinda, let me, try a bunch of thing. It's not this monomaniacal power law commitment. So if you're just trying to build a trillion dollar business, I think that's not the way to do it. Yeah. But, look, if you like you know,
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Okay everybody, we need another vacuum sealer. Oh, well, yeah, gosh. We need how many more rolls of pink butcher paper do we have? We used to have one, now we need 10 rolls. Who's carrying that stuff? Oh, where do we put it? Oh, well, the incubator k
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...incubations don't work. That said, some have worked out outstandingly. And, you know, at Greylock, Palo Alto Networks, and Workday are two largest historical outcomes. My partner, Sheema, and I were fortunate to help incubate a company called Abnorma
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And then we all went quiet. So that was that. That's my recollection. I don't know what you guys thought. I remember thinking, yeah, like, I was just so distracted with how do we raise money. Like, we had never met LPs till then, and every VC that we
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