Steve Lord
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 7 Apr
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This means uh spin-offs off of the the really big firms, big firms buying.
We've already seen open AI buying, all these little startups, right?
You're gonna see a little bit of consolidation start to pick up in that space.
I think so.
Um, particularly the early stage.
Founders.
I think a
At the risk of sounding very repetitive from what I've said at the back half of or the last quarter, the last time we met.
Where the real funding gap has opened up has been the seed a
A plus B minus that
You know.
size of venture round.
The big rounds they continue to get a lot of dollars and the the sort of like
Angel, two guys on a laptop, they were able to get a get off the ground because all they had to do was say, we have an AI idea.
And yeah, you know, Californians would be like, here's my money, right?
But it's that we actually have a business, we've actually got employees, we've got some maybe a little bit of revenue, and we're trying to prove scale and fit.
That has been really kind of neglected.
And that's where I think we're gonna see more activity this year.
I think be cognizant of these cross currents.
It's always very important, in my opinion, that startup founders understand the world in which they're swimming, right?
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