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Inside the investor network built on trust. Photo of my fellow Kauffman Class 31 fellows, an amazing group of investors. I’m on far left, row 5 Career update: I’ve joined Kauffman Fellows, the program for VCs and investors. I was honored to be accepted into … Continue readingThe VC Network: I’ve joined the Kauffman Fellows
We did it! Photos: Llama Lounge 26 was hosted last week. We were graciously hosted by Microsoft in the heart of Silicon Valley in their newly renovated, state-of-the-art theatre. We packed the house with 300+ attendees, and in fact hit capacity and had to turn … Continue readingLlama Lounge 26 @Microsoft
In tech, career options narrow every year. Manage your career deliberately. It’s important to carefully manage your career in the technology industry. This is a controversial post, but I want to put it out there in the spirit of helping: Career longevity is challenging in … Continue readingTech Career Funnel: In tech, career options narrow every year. Manage your career deliberately.
Sold out and standing room only. This was Llama Lounge 25 (see Luma Cal), hosted at Stanford for the second year in a row. This was Llama Lounge 25, hosted at Stanford for the second year in a row. I’m the founder of this event … Continue readingLlama Lounge 25 at Stanford, standing room only
It’s my three-year anniversary as a venture capitalist, since 2023. To date, we’ve invested in approximately 19 AI startups (and several more with smaller checks) poised to become Blitzscalers. So aprox 25 investments in 3 years, truly talented founders working on the front edge of … Continue readingThree Years Went Fast
My TED AI Talk Is Live: The Human Secret Behind the AI BoomThe video from my closing keynote at TEDAI San Francisco 2025 just dropped on TED.com. It is 7.5 minutes. Short post, because I want you to watch it. Click: Watch the full talk … Continue readingMy TED AI Talk Is Live: The Human Secret Behind the AI Boom
Coding is not the hard part; it’s what comes next So many founders get it wrong. Coding is not the hard part. As a VC, I review hundreds of AI pitches from founder a month and I pass up most, why? Building product has never … Continue readingSo Many AI startups Get it Wrong
? Llama Lounge 24 was hosted at Google DeepMind’s Googleplex in the heart of Silicon Valley, with Peter Danenberg and Justin Woo making it happen on the Google side. The turnout reflected where the industry is right now: roughly 60% AI founders, 20% investors, and … Continue readingLlama Lounge 24 @Google DeepMind
The tech industry has moved through distinct waves over the past few decades. These waves mattered. But they all shared one constraint: humans were the bottleneck. We created the content. We drove the networks. We operated the marketplaces. Progress moved at the speed of human … Continue readingTimeline: Tech is About to Accelerate Because AI Scales Itself
We completed the first Llama Lounge Agentic Hackathon Over 150 developers participated, forming roughly 25 teams that built real agentic systems in two-days. The winner received $5k and the (almost) Gold Llama, featured in my hands see photo Teams leveraged:–Composio to connect live data and … Continue readingLlama Lounge Agentic Hackathon: Building & Innovating
