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Larry Cheng

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
417 total appearances

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Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

And I just ask those two questions and try and decipher everything else through that.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

But we're seeing really, I mean, I can't even begin because we're seeing so many applications.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

And by the way, all of our portfolio companies are embracing AI across their businesses.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

And so it's really fun.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

The hype cycle needs to chill out a little bit.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

All those VCs we were talking about at the beginning of the episode, they're all feeding into the hype cycle.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

They know it.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

They're all paying super high valuations that will not sustain, and they know it.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

They just don't want to be the last ones holding the bag.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

But AI will certainly be transformative.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

Yeah.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

Well, businesses can differentiate on other things other than the code of their product.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

Right.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

And so, I mean, we talked a little bit about Chewy.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

Chewy was going directly up against Amazon.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

It was much, you know, the 800 pound gorilla.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

And we won on customer service.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

So I look for an AI application slash company.

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

Can they differentiate on other things?

Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley
200 Rejections to a Billion-Dollar Exit: Larry Cheng on Resilience and Growth

Is there a community element that's a mode?