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Silicon Valley
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Silicon Valley
for about a year. I didn't see a path, honestly. It was a much smaller industry, and I wanted to be an entrepreneur. And I needed to be an entrepreneur, I thought, to be a credible investor. So I left and started a company. They funded me along with
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Around the same time, Andreessen Horowitz came around and changed the model. Before Andreessen, the value prop of VC was I'm a board member, I'll give advice. And recent changed that in many dramatic ways. YC came along, AngelList came along. All of
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You're not gonna be able to solve this stuff overnight, but what you wanna create is a culture and a set of mechanisms for accountability and for a natural way for things to recede when they're not effective. And if you could create a permanent chang
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It's been stunning that the February didn't cause much more than the pause for breath. It was just a pause for breath. It was just as crazy. When you look at OpenAI raising $30,000,000,000 and when you look at Anthropic's multibillion dollar fundrais
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Wow. How many? 1,200. You had a 98% reduction in the number of companies founded in China because if you're an entrepreneur in China, why would you want to start a company when the government regulations are so uncertain? Which by the way is an inter
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...Valley's is still about three x the size, it's around 2 and a half trillion versus 700,000,000,000 or so, Silicon Valley versus Silicon Valley versus Silicon Alley. They're three times the size, but New York's ecosystem value is growing three times f
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obviously, your day to day more consists of attracting founders and building deal flow, right, the actual nitty gritty of a VC's job. But I think in the last few years, we've seen that the traditional founders pitch to VC has shifted a little bit bec
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You know, really quickly, you can get a product into market with a small number of people and start monetizing it. So smaller footprint in terms of number of people and faster revenue growth equals big opportunity. So these companies need less capita
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because these companies you you can you could keep investing venture capital dollars later. Like, I think that's one of the main if you look at the money that we just raised, you know, almost 7,000,000,000 of that is for the growth fund. David George
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committed to doing the seed work with the same intensity and rigor that you do at twenty BC. Oh, zero rigor here. Oh, no. We're just like blindfolded throwing darts. I didn't say a lot of you. Right? So the same rigor. Oh, okay. Fantastic. I was feel
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believe we have something that is so special and it is so unique. And the big difference between us and every other venture capitalist is that we create the supply of investments. We don't compete with any other investor at the point where we're inve
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And the I I think if you look at how much venture capital was raised by US VCs last year, it was about 76,000,000,000 raised in The US. Pro rata to population, The UK should be 15,400,000,000.0. The UK funds raised 3,700,000,000 last year. So we're s
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is still very important for start ups to, you know, kinda get to from zero to one. We're seeing people come to our founding university, go to our accelerator, and then go to, YC, Sequoia, ARC, and Tristan Hearn speed run. It's very interesting becaus
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...access to our product. Yes. There's capital involved in that, but, actually, it's the community you're part of, the access to cofounders, the access to, San Francisco and and being able to move here, access to investors. And, yeah, I think we're just
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And what were the things that informed the type of business that you wanted to build? So I think since 2010, the business was already the business of venture has dramatically changed since 2010. For thirty, forty years, it was similar, which is there
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came from. And what has been fascinating and that's how it was when I entered venture capital. My first internship was in 2012. I took a full time job in venture capital in 2013, and that's just kind of how the world was is we would look at businesse
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It's like, the thing is, there's an optimum amount of money relative to the opportunity set. The tricky thing is this. There's an optimum amount of money relative to the opportunity set. The opportunity set has massively expanded because of this whol
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When we think about Hoxton, how do you think about your answer for what our right to exist is? Yeah. It's a good question. By the way, I think the venture world does not need yet another fund. Like, we have a lot of them. Right? They're coming down i
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...Silicon Valley for being one of the most important, startup ecosystems in the world. You know, there was a lot of noise made when in 2023, Carter reported that, you know, Manhattan edged out San Francisco in terms of, the number of early stage startu
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