Nate Williams

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192 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 4 Jun

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Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers · Deep Tech Gold Rush: Smart Boom or Future Bust? · 4 Jun 2026 podcast

This is a company for you.

And I think that bespoke, I learned that from John Doerr, who for all his success, that is one of the most maniacal, sleeves rolled up, tactical GPs I've ever seen.

Calling and closing like director of engineering is when he's already had Google, right?

Already had big hits.

And so I think that's the business.

And that's the part that I get really excited about is doing the little things.

I think that's a really good point.

Yeah, mine's a little bit different.

There's two things I really don't like.

I think the first one is correlated to the second.

I think the first one is really that the best tech always wins, which is absolute bullshit, right?

The best tech doesn't always win.

That just does not happen.

And because of number two, which is distribution issues.

is really going to be the kingmaker for the next 10 years.

And so we have just been, I got here in the Valley from grad school in 2005.

I worked at Intel.

I was working on speeds and feeds of semiconductors and many core.

The thing about that time is the Googlization of the only job on the field or the only position that mattered, Samir, was engineering.

It was engineering, then it was product, and then it was finance, then it was marketing, et cetera.

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