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Eric Vishria

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

And if you could actually request a ride instantly and pay for it easily with shorter wait time and much more accuracy and much less cumbersome communication, could a market be created?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

And if you could actually request a ride instantly and pay for it easily with shorter wait time and much more accuracy and much less cumbersome communication, could a market be created?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

And if you could actually request a ride instantly and pay for it easily with shorter wait time and much more accuracy and much less cumbersome communication, could a market be created?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

Yeah. Yeah.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

Yeah. Yeah.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

Yeah. Yeah.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

And I think that was a huge part of, you know, Gurley and the rest of the benchmark teams at that time predates me. It was a huge part of their insight in terms of the investment thesis. And so like when you kind of think about a situation like that, okay, that's market created. That's a good example of market creation. And we have those all over. Like if you were like...

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

And I think that was a huge part of, you know, Gurley and the rest of the benchmark teams at that time predates me. It was a huge part of their insight in terms of the investment thesis. And so like when you kind of think about a situation like that, okay, that's market created. That's a good example of market creation. And we have those all over. Like if you were like...

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

And I think that was a huge part of, you know, Gurley and the rest of the benchmark teams at that time predates me. It was a huge part of their insight in terms of the investment thesis. And so like when you kind of think about a situation like that, okay, that's market created. That's a good example of market creation. And we have those all over. Like if you were like...

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

I'll give you another one that's kind of like really interesting right now, which is AI medical scribes. And so you're like, you go to the doctor and you talk to your doctor and then they have to do a bunch of notes and everything else. And so there's a bunch of these AI medical scribes. You kind of like look at it and you look at the proposition and I've looked at it now.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

I'll give you another one that's kind of like really interesting right now, which is AI medical scribes. And so you're like, you go to the doctor and you talk to your doctor and then they have to do a bunch of notes and everything else. And so there's a bunch of these AI medical scribes. You kind of like look at it and you look at the proposition and I've looked at it now.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

I'll give you another one that's kind of like really interesting right now, which is AI medical scribes. And so you're like, you go to the doctor and you talk to your doctor and then they have to do a bunch of notes and everything else. And so there's a bunch of these AI medical scribes. You kind of like look at it and you look at the proposition and I've looked at it now.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

I've met several of these companies over the years and we haven't invested in any. But going back, I don't know, five years when I met the first one, it's like, If this exists and works, yeah, that's a better way. It is a better way. So there will be market created there. It's going to take away from the actual human scribe business, but it is a new market in a way.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

I've met several of these companies over the years and we haven't invested in any. But going back, I don't know, five years when I met the first one, it's like, If this exists and works, yeah, that's a better way. It is a better way. So there will be market created there. It's going to take away from the actual human scribe business, but it is a new market in a way.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

I've met several of these companies over the years and we haven't invested in any. But going back, I don't know, five years when I met the first one, it's like, If this exists and works, yeah, that's a better way. It is a better way. So there will be market created there. It's going to take away from the actual human scribe business, but it is a new market in a way.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

And like, you can imagine, like, it's not hard to imagine that exists. And we often say this when we're talking about companies, which is like, if you fast forward three years, is this a thing? Like, is it a thing? It's like often a good sign when you're like, yeah, like, that's a thing. Like, it's going to be a thing. Like, we believe that.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

And like, you can imagine, like, it's not hard to imagine that exists. And we often say this when we're talking about companies, which is like, if you fast forward three years, is this a thing? Like, is it a thing? It's like often a good sign when you're like, yeah, like, that's a thing. Like, it's going to be a thing. Like, we believe that.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

And like, you can imagine, like, it's not hard to imagine that exists. And we often say this when we're talking about companies, which is like, if you fast forward three years, is this a thing? Like, is it a thing? It's like often a good sign when you're like, yeah, like, that's a thing. Like, it's going to be a thing. Like, we believe that.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

I think this is where we go back to where we started. Do we have an extraordinary entrepreneur that you believe in? Do you think they have an insight that is cogent? And I would say this, maybe this is a more useful way to say it. The more competitive the market is, the higher the bar you have to hold on those two things, I think. And so in a hyper-competitive market...

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Benchmark's Eric Vishria on Where is the Value in AI: Chips, Models or Apps | Why Nvidia Will Not Be The Only Game in Town | The Commoditisation of Foundation Models | Which AI Apps Have Sustaining Value vs Hype and Short Term Revenue

I think this is where we go back to where we started. Do we have an extraordinary entrepreneur that you believe in? Do you think they have an insight that is cogent? And I would say this, maybe this is a more useful way to say it. The more competitive the market is, the higher the bar you have to hold on those two things, I think. And so in a hyper-competitive market...