Mercedes Bent
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417 appearances
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard Sep 2025
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We felt that
Also, an originality is stemming from the type of founder that we want to back that we don't think others are backing.
It's a technical founder who has insights about how behavior is changing thanks to the new technologies that have been advanced.
So if you get just a technical person, you end up getting someone who's building technology in search of a problem.
We've all felt that's kind of what VR was.
I worked in the VR industry for a while.
And I always meet these incredibly talented engineers who have such depth on the primitives of the technology, but can't describe really why a customer needs it.
And then if you get just the people who understand the behavioral insight, who understand the problem,
then you get sometimes a lot of influencer marketing people or marketing execs and not people who really know how to ship and build and iterate.
And oh, that foundational video model is out of date, you know, after only six months or three months.
So we're really looking for this unicorn.
And we felt like when we said,
you know, we want to invest in consumer, people didn't understand it.
They thought it was soda and apparel and, you know, things that people kind of classically think of, influencers.
And when we said we want to invest in, you know, consumer technology, people still didn't quite get what we meant.
They said, okay, so maybe an influencer who's built a consumer, you know, product.
And so really we felt like we honed in on this gap of a unicorn and
that has become really our type of founder.
And these people aren't being funded at nearly the levels that we think they should be.
Last year, only 6% of VC dollars went to consumer-backed companies, which is down from 34% a decade prior.
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