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the other advantage that we have from our perspective is that if we find an investment or there's sufficient pull from the from the core of the business, which tends to be engineering, because that's where the 99% of the money goes, We have the abili
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...work with your venture teams and with m and a. But we think that there's still a bunch of problems left in the bucket after you take all these tools and use them. And so we look at ourselves as yet another tool in a corporation's tool belt, and we he
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through the from the parent company to deploy a level of capital each year. So sometimes I think it it's more difficult than having the, VC fundraising because I actually do it every year whereas you guys have to do it kind of every three or four. Bu
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...lab in a way. We know that our lab will start up for the mobility and transportation sector by partnering with corporate partners. You spoke about a couple of them, in the introduction. Could you tell us a little bit more about the thesis of this ven
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...allocations soared to their best year in history. And yet parts of Venture are unique in being both efficient and unactionable. Many believe that Sequoia or Benchmark will produce returns at the top of the pack, but there's not much action anyone can
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...and acknowledge the fact they're going to have some of these incredible companies. They're going to be unpredictable, the first class problem and we just have to steal from other illiquid buckets. So we're going to do less than real estate, less than
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...venture capital wouldn't want me to use is that we're sort of merchant bankers. We run around. We invest some of our own capital, and then our job is to tell the rest of the market that they should invest at a higher price. And so that is the number
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...venture capital. And then they called the series e and above not venture capital. You and I had talked about this last week, I think. And I just wanna point out to people that when we talk about venture, there's, I think, Trad VC, and then I think th
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...of this. Venture is about creating a portfolio where you're maximizing the probability of catching that outlier. It's not a deterministic business in every investment level. It's a probabilistic business at the portfolio level. And the slippery slope
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...is what venture capital is for, is to increase the growth rate. Startups are meant to grow and they're meant to grow like rockets, not helicopters or airplanes. If you've got an airplane and it's flying and it's gaining altitude, Lon, that's fantasti
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...and the operating successes that you've had or not? Frankly, I think venture is a brand game. So if you are a new fund, so brand is a brand of, the GPs. I would say that Plural built a brand as being you do deep hard shit that most other people are l
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...As we spoke about a moment ago, that's not attractive. This is a exciting time. You want to be putting fresh capital out to fund these new and innovative and disruptive companies, many of which are AI driven. You're over two. What's the third option?
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put that venture fund on the map as a key player in the valley. And so that was what we did. And and was the concept broad based? Or meaning there's a lot of deal flow. Are you trying to be the best venture capitalist? Or is it, hey. Let's just do a
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...oh, venture capital is, like, so much fun as a business. So he's, like, venture capital is, like, being at the sushi boat restaurant. Right? And so these are, like, the sushi restaurants where there's, like, the sort of tracking and everything. But b
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...CoVenture is an alternative asset manager, and we look to build funds in asset classes that have newly existed because of new technology. You know, we think that there's a ton of opportunity to invest in spaces that have just been traditionally ignor
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