David Weisburd

How do you compete against other firms?

And also, how do you compete?

You mentioned Cosla, Sequoia, Founders Fund.

How do you compete against these multi-stage platforms as well?

Tell me about some of the biggest misses you made as a VC and what were the learnings from those mistakes?

The most consistent logical fallacy or mistake that I see from smart VCs, and this is very predictable at this point, is that they really like the founder and they really hate the business and they don't invest.

And they're right about both, but their decision not to invest is wrong.

Would you rather invest pre-idea or in the wrong business model?

We talked about AGI earlier.

Do you lose sleep on this

doomsday AI situation where there's an extinction level event, not in the venture ecosystem, but humanity in general?

So why even think about it?

The decision is we have to move forward.

Right.

What's a key philosophy that you've changed over the last 12 months that leads you to make different actions?

Reminds me of a story you told me when we were having dinner a couple of months ago.

Tell me about that.

How would you explain that?

Because the opposite is also an axiom, compounding relationships, compounding reputation.

But here specifically, it's almost a zero sum mentality to relationships that was a superpower.