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
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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
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The industry today is run basically by principals, associates, and junior GPs. A principal is not actually waiting for an exit. They just want a promotion, man. We are in the industrialization of startups playbook land where everybody's trying to churn out some piece of ridiculous arbitrage every week in order to get through the end of their incubator and raise their seed round. There is absolutely a belief that too much capital can mess up a company.
this is 20 vc with me harry stebbings now our guest today has been a friend of mine for about eight or nine years if you can believe it he's very modest and so he doesn't really want the intro to be about him so i'm gonna leave it with nabil hyatt is a general partner at spark capital spark is one of the leading firms of the last decade with portfolio companies including twitter anthropic Coinbase, Affirm, Discord, Deal, and more. And I do just want to say again on Nabil. Nabil helped me, advised me, was a friend when the show was very small and no one cared. That to me is the sign of true kindness. And so I really appreciate the friendship, Nabil. but before we dive in today it can be difficult to build a team that's aligned on everything from values to workflow but that's exactly what coda was made to do coda is an all-in-one collaborative workspace that started as a napkin sketch now just five years since launching in beta coda has helped 50 000 teams all over the world get on the same page with coda
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