Gili Raanan

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558 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard 28 Mar

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The investment in innovation is justified.

And those companies, especially those companies that are growing very, very fast, they need a lot of cash, more cash than before.

I don't think that the cloud code and AI, which at least in the next few years would not change that materially.

And it takes a lot of money to build large companies.

So yes, I encourage founders to raise a lot of money if they like to continue and build significant companies.

You can correlate fund sizes to that.

My concern is around entry prices and whether that would limit innovation at some point in time because disappointment would show up.

It's a complicated question to answer because we are exercising the science of greed almost by design.

We need to be selfish and we need to be greedy.

Those are good traits for an early stage investor.

Those are not bad, negative traits for anybody who's dealing with early stage.

Price is an important consideration.

And whenever I see an inflated price seeded deal, where essentially it's a bet on a team, I get more skeptic.

Now, whether I turn it down or not, it depends on many other factors.

First of all, I believe that trajectory, velocity, growth rates are the most important indicators for a healthy business.

I think that part of our job is to look at that growth and try to sense whether it's been engineered or it's being organically achieved.

And there are ways to engineer growth.

But, you know, whenever you see a business that's growing very, very fast, it's a good company.

As a general statement, I mean, because that's the best predictor for a company that does well.

And over time, I learned that whenever a business is getting to a point it's growing super fast, year over year, it becomes part of their DNA.

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