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

As a corporate, you need to be clear on why you exist. What is your purpose out there? Because if you do not have the purpose, the VC industry will not understand you. You need to bring it across the

If you don't get these three pillars into your corporate venturing entity, you do not stand a chance because you do not know where the success lies. There's no such as a clear formula on how to build a CVC and a corporate venturing entity. It is abou

But one click is a simple simplification of your life. Then you have a dash button that which you can press and instantly receive a product. Then you have Alexa that you can place an order via voice mail. Now we have agents, shopping agents, which ca

you form a thesis, and then you basically, like, pound the table for why your thesis should exist and make sense. And that is actually exactly what I did in my English lit thesis, my senior year of college. I looked at over 50 different sources. I pu

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been working on this for many years, and finally, all this came to fruition, q three, and q four last year. And, I look forward to continuing further on this journey. That doesn't mean that the VCs have been a mean to the end. It has actually been th

at CVCs quite a lot in terms of, you know, this is just m and a through the backdoor. There are lots of horror stories, mainly historical. They do exist, and they're online about, you know, companies that have invested things and and done some not ve

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