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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

Our growth team navigated it quite well. I think they actually did an incredibly good job of processing things. And there's a reason we have a separate growth team and an early stage team because I do think they're different sports, man. Like they're just different animals and we do them in our spark way. Why do you say that?

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

Our growth team navigated it quite well. I think they actually did an incredibly good job of processing things. And there's a reason we have a separate growth team and an early stage team because I do think they're different sports, man. Like they're just different animals and we do them in our spark way. Why do you say that?

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 just watch what our growth team does and they do their job incredibly well. We talk about deals all the time. Again, there are seven people. They're also a small team. But they can be a little bit more hierarchical. They can have principles. They can have associates. They can do more diligence. You can look at the numbers. You can call 25 customers. I'm not calling 25 customers.

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 just watch what our growth team does and they do their job incredibly well. We talk about deals all the time. Again, there are seven people. They're also a small team. But they can be a little bit more hierarchical. They can have principles. They can have associates. They can do more diligence. You can look at the numbers. You can call 25 customers. I'm not calling 25 customers.

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 just watch what our growth team does and they do their job incredibly well. We talk about deals all the time. Again, there are seven people. They're also a small team. But they can be a little bit more hierarchical. They can have principles. They can have associates. They can do more diligence. You can look at the numbers. You can call 25 customers. I'm not calling 25 customers.

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

Most of the time I'm investing, there aren't 25 customers. And so it's a different process. It's a different muscle. I'm not saying I couldn't do it. But in a world where, as you said earlier, just doing the job simply at the highest possible level is incredibly hard. Why would I try and play two sports? You can try and be Jordan and play basketball and baseball.

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

Most of the time I'm investing, there aren't 25 customers. And so it's a different process. It's a different muscle. I'm not saying I couldn't do it. But in a world where, as you said earlier, just doing the job simply at the highest possible level is incredibly hard. Why would I try and play two sports? You can try and be Jordan and play basketball and baseball.

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

Most of the time I'm investing, there aren't 25 customers. And so it's a different process. It's a different muscle. I'm not saying I couldn't do it. But in a world where, as you said earlier, just doing the job simply at the highest possible level is incredibly hard. Why would I try and play two sports? You can try and be Jordan and play basketball and baseball.

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

Again, this is all amazing and wonderful pitches for 2021. Who knows what the public markets are going to like in AI in seven years? What are you doing? And so if you spend all your time trying to internalize what the public markets are thinking about this month, you are absolutely going to make the wrong calls. What do you think of these VC armchair investors who love macro?

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

Again, this is all amazing and wonderful pitches for 2021. Who knows what the public markets are going to like in AI in seven years? What are you doing? And so if you spend all your time trying to internalize what the public markets are thinking about this month, you are absolutely going to make the wrong calls. What do you think of these VC armchair investors who love macro?

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

Again, this is all amazing and wonderful pitches for 2021. Who knows what the public markets are going to like in AI in seven years? What are you doing? And so if you spend all your time trying to internalize what the public markets are thinking about this month, you are absolutely going to make the wrong calls. What do you think of these VC armchair investors who love macro?

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

You just got to hope that the cycle comes a background for them in exactly seven to 10 years when those companies want to go public. And if it does, they'll do great.

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

You just got to hope that the cycle comes a background for them in exactly seven to 10 years when those companies want to go public. And if it does, they'll do great.

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

You just got to hope that the cycle comes a background for them in exactly seven to 10 years when those companies want to go public. And if it does, they'll do great.

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

Look, I had a bunch of venture that I raised as a founder. I raised eight rounds of venture capital as a founder. I never had a horror story from a VC. I had nobody who was like terrible and horrible. I basically had mostly VCs that were fine. They fall into the Keith Reboy camp. Like they show up to board meetings, it's okay, and I'm just going to run my company.

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

Look, I had a bunch of venture that I raised as a founder. I raised eight rounds of venture capital as a founder. I never had a horror story from a VC. I had nobody who was like terrible and horrible. I basically had mostly VCs that were fine. They fall into the Keith Reboy camp. Like they show up to board meetings, it's okay, and I'm just going to run my company.

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

Look, I had a bunch of venture that I raised as a founder. I raised eight rounds of venture capital as a founder. I never had a horror story from a VC. I had nobody who was like terrible and horrible. I basically had mostly VCs that were fine. They fall into the Keith Reboy camp. Like they show up to board meetings, it's okay, and I'm just going to run my company.

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 just imagine that in any other context of life. If I had somebody who was on my team, anyone else on my team, and they were fine, what would be the feedback? Marriage.

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 just imagine that in any other context of life. If I had somebody who was on my team, anyone else on my team, and they were fine, what would be the feedback? Marriage.

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 just imagine that in any other context of life. If I had somebody who was on my team, anyone else on my team, and they were fine, what would be the feedback? Marriage.