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Kathryn Mayne on VC, Investing in People, Taking Risks & Why Israel is Special
Michael Eisenberg
What makes a great VC from a great LP: Kathryn Mayne, Managing Director of Horsley Bridge, joins the podcast to share thoughts on why VC partnerships unravel, how to value startups, DEI in VC, being an investor vs psychologist and more.
Managing Partner of Precursor Ventures Charles Hudson writes about the tension between investing and managing a growing VC firm, with four key factors that impact such: AUM, team composition, product assortment, and firm leadership and goals.
Yann LeCun, VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta and Silver Professor at NYU, on why AI will not dominate humanity, why no economists believe all jobs will be replaced by AI, why the size of models matters less, and why open models beat closed models.
Portfolio Construction Trends & Best Practices with Anubhav Srivastava, CEO of Tactyc
Samir Kaji
Anubhav provides data-driven insights on what he’s seeing on how emerging managers are modeling portfolios around number of companies, reserves, recycling, and follow-ons.
2023 is on pace to have the lowest fundraising total since 2017, with 91% of emerging managers saying it was difficult to close their fund. Signature Block shares 5,000 data points on the state of emerging managers.
Despite the many headwinds they face, VCs are still focused on doing new deals this year. Juniper Square surveyed nearly 100 venture fund professionals about their concerns, plans, and focus areas for the rest of the year.
Many investors evaluate opportunities to invest in women exclusively through the lens of female founders, but there is a parallel opportunity in the female economy — investing in technology that solves the problems and meets the needs of female consumers.
AI Could Cause Human ‘Extinction,’ Tech Leaders Warn
Robert Hart
Tackling the “risk of extinction” posed by AI should be a global priority on par with averting catastrophes like nuclear war, a group of tech leaders and experts warned - the latest high-profile call for caution as concern about the potential harms of AI grow.
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