Saam Motamedi
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1,486 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 14 Jul
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At the same time, the capital velocity in companies is faster and at a larger order of magnitude than it's ever been.
Like we look at this in our portfolio, we're primarily doing the first rounds and the speed at which companies raise their series A, series B, series C,
And, you know, the size of these rounds, which often are in the hundreds of millions, you know, very, very quickly.
Like that's an interesting observation.
Yes.
Why is that?
And I think it's because we're operating in such big, like in such big and new categories and opportunities that the price to be the number one player is so significant that you need to do everything you can as a company.
And so if you can be more efficient, the real lens is like, what else can you go do and how quickly?
And that's why we're seeing companies.
have much faster product velocity, have much faster revenue growth.
They're spending.
They're getting more out of that spend, but they're spending.
And in fact, I would say they're spending more in this last three years than in the prior decade.
Yeah, it's a great question.
And yeah, it's interesting, by the way, like we, there's all these market maps, people crown these companies as winners.
And I think we forget that like the game's just beginning.
I mean, you rewind the clock just 18 months and you look at what the foundation model landscape looked at at that time.
And then you fast forward to today and, you know, we fast forward another 18 months and there's going to be more evolution.
So I think we all live on Twitter where we're trying to clear everything over like every single minute.
Like we should zoom out and remember these things are very nebulous.
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