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BD, and investing. So it's kind of cool to have that all of those different skill sets rolled into one job, and it's kinda not. Like, some some weeks, I'm spending, like, 40 to 60% of my time more on the BD and the strategic side, and I don't get to
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...risk that you're taking is that they're less AI native. There you know, there's always a risk and I think people have this tendency to favor the hidden risk. By the price is a hidden risk. You don't perceive it as a risk, but it is a risk. And so peo
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...job risk versus career risk, to be honest, with a lot of the the bigger scale ups in tech companies, you have neither. It's and I think, you know, e even going a little bit early, maybe to growth stage, if a start up has, you know, x years of runway,
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some of them are purely financially driven a la Google Ventures. Some of them are fully strategic. Like, they only invest for commercialization, you know, cocreating or cobuilding products or services together. And most of them fall somewhere in the
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...and risk off when they start their careers. They want to go with the known, you know, the areas of heat where it's like you know, today, it's AI. It's a founder that's done something. It's who else is in the round? Because those companies are more li
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“a16z partner breaks down the three types of risk every VC must evaluate”
...risk. Did I overpay? And again, I think the way that shows up is the difficulty of the next round based on your entry price. Right? Maybe the third risk is, team risk. Can this team actually go the di
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...in the economy. It's also a challenging business because you have to be so mentally plastic to see the transformation margin evolution over time and buy into that. What it is today in the very early days versus what it will be are two very different
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it's an amazing resource for us to have. And sometimes we think it's the unfair advantage of of CVC that we're able to kinda do that. But the other point you raised is is exactly right, which is, yes, strategically focused, but you've got to be finan
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...too risky from the parent company. So and and that's actually a trend
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of capital in any industry, real estate, gambling, whatever it is, too much capital in any one industry inherently leads to lack of discipline and poor judgment, and that always winds up having adverse impact on results. I think for us, you know, we'
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...job risk versus career risk, to be honest, with a lot of the the bigger scale ups in tech companies, you have neither. It's and I think, you know, e even going a little bit early, maybe to growth stage, if a start up has, you know, x years of runway,
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...a kind of career risk to you know, if you're an if you're an associate passing up an idea that, you know, you're worried somebody might think is dumb, you might not send that on. You might just leave it and pretend you never saw it or or just say or
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“VCs reveal the career-killing risk of making non-consensus bets”
...lot safer for your VC career to be consensus. And if you
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