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Nabeel Hyatt

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615 total appearances

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

It's not that hard. It's incredibly hard to execute. It is a simple thing in its essence. And so if I try and win every single war across every single front, I will be average across the whole board. So we try to be good at what we're doing. We try to partner well with founders who want that product.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

We try to look for new market opportunities, which by the way, in the world of AI, you can imagine why I'm a kid in a candy store right now. I'm the most excited I've literally ever been in my entire career, including as a founder. It's just an amazing opportunity. And if you're asking what makes a new market opportunity, I think it's you're looking for a new behavior.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

We try to look for new market opportunities, which by the way, in the world of AI, you can imagine why I'm a kid in a candy store right now. I'm the most excited I've literally ever been in my entire career, including as a founder. It's just an amazing opportunity. And if you're asking what makes a new market opportunity, I think it's you're looking for a new behavior.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

We try to look for new market opportunities, which by the way, in the world of AI, you can imagine why I'm a kid in a candy store right now. I'm the most excited I've literally ever been in my entire career, including as a founder. It's just an amazing opportunity. And if you're asking what makes a new market opportunity, I think it's you're looking for a new behavior.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

Looking for a new behavior where when you try it, it just sears into your brain. You can't stop thinking about it. Again, it sounds simple, but if you just do that, is this really a 10x better product? You just don't see that many of those. That simple thing, you just don't see very often at all.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

Looking for a new behavior where when you try it, it just sears into your brain. You can't stop thinking about it. Again, it sounds simple, but if you just do that, is this really a 10x better product? You just don't see that many of those. That simple thing, you just don't see very often at all.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

Looking for a new behavior where when you try it, it just sears into your brain. You can't stop thinking about it. Again, it sounds simple, but if you just do that, is this really a 10x better product? You just don't see that many of those. That simple thing, you just don't see very often at all.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

So you used market, people, and product as your three cores. I think if you just look at right now, market, do we understand any of these markets? How fast are they all changing in the world of AI? They're all shifting like crazy. And who knows which ones are going to become commodity markets with absolutely no margin whatsoever anyway.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

So you used market, people, and product as your three cores. I think if you just look at right now, market, do we understand any of these markets? How fast are they all changing in the world of AI? They're all shifting like crazy. And who knows which ones are going to become commodity markets with absolutely no margin whatsoever anyway.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

So you used market, people, and product as your three cores. I think if you just look at right now, market, do we understand any of these markets? How fast are they all changing in the world of AI? They're all shifting like crazy. And who knows which ones are going to become commodity markets with absolutely no margin whatsoever anyway.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

So if it's a big market, maybe it was a big market two years ago and it's about to become a really small market and the same thing in reverse. People is very interesting because And I think there are firms that do a really good job at just making people bets. I think you have an instinct about people that just, you get over the line and you make your bet on people.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

So if it's a big market, maybe it was a big market two years ago and it's about to become a really small market and the same thing in reverse. People is very interesting because And I think there are firms that do a really good job at just making people bets. I think you have an instinct about people that just, you get over the line and you make your bet on people.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

So if it's a big market, maybe it was a big market two years ago and it's about to become a really small market and the same thing in reverse. People is very interesting because And I think there are firms that do a really good job at just making people bets. I think you have an instinct about people that just, you get over the line and you make your bet on people.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

Thanks, Nabil. You can't be 100% all of the time.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

Thanks, Nabil. You can't be 100% all of the time.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

Thanks, Nabil. You can't be 100% all of the time.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

I have my fair share of issues.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

I have my fair share of issues.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

I have my fair share of issues.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Why To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | Why VC is Run by Principals and Associates and is a Broken System | The Bull Case for Anthropic & Whether Deepseek Changes Their Strategy with Nabeel Hyatt @ Spark Capital

And I don't think of product like, am I the product master? I think of product as an instantiation of what the founder does. So let me recast it a different way. How do we separate hucksters from good executors? Because they're here pitching us as VCs. The way we separate hucksters who do a good pitch from people who are real executors is you look at the thing that comes out of their hands.