What podcasts say about Byron Ling
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What Byron Ling has said on podcasts
19 statements · 7 positive · 7 negative · 2 mixed · 3 neutral
Seed investing has low persistence and is extremely difficult to predict.
“The beauty of seed is it's sort of... There's low persistence. It's incredibly hard to predict.”
Open the episode · E425: What 30,000 Founders Taught Me About AI, Judgment & Top FoundersListen at 15:55
Seed investing requires intensive, outward-focused sourcing effort.
“there's no real substitute. It's a ground game. You've got to hustle. You've got to be outward focused.”
Open the episode · E425: What 30,000 Founders Taught Me About AI, Judgment & Top FoundersListen at 16:15
Many leading companies began as non-consensus, misunderstood businesses that nearly failed.
“many of the best companies did not start that way. Many of them were actually fairly non-consensus, misunderstood, nearly died along the way.”
Open the episode · E425: What 30,000 Founders Taught Me About AI, Judgment & Top FoundersListen at 17:03
Rapid product development can offset young AI teams’ limited industry networks and experience.
“the sort of rate of product development. kind of makes up for the lack of a Rolodex, the lack of any gray hair.”
Open the episode · E425: What 30,000 Founders Taught Me About AI, Judgment & Top FoundersListen at 18:31
Investors should question superior returns when many funds pursue identical founder criteria.
“you should ask yourself, why are you going to have superior returns when the other 50 funds are doing the same thing as you?”
Open the episode · E425: What 30,000 Founders Taught Me About AI, Judgment & Top FoundersListen at 18:59
Markets do not necessarily grow at the same rate.
“do all markets grow at the same rate?”
Open the episode · E425: What 30,000 Founders Taught Me About AI, Judgment & Top FoundersListen at 19:43
A compelling startup investment requires a real-world catalyst.
“there has to be some catalyst in the world.”
Open the episode · E425: What 30,000 Founders Taught Me About AI, Judgment & Top FoundersListen at 22:25
Investors should evaluate how a startup’s market may develop over ten years.
“We also care about what's the market going to look like in 10 years?”
Open the episode · E425: What 30,000 Founders Taught Me About AI, Judgment & Top FoundersListen at 22:34
Venture capital concentration is currently at a historic high.
“the amount of concentration has also never been higher.”
Open the episode · E425: What 30,000 Founders Taught Me About AI, Judgment & Top FoundersListen at 24:26
Market-leading companies with customers may accelerate over the next few years despite difficult funding.
“what you're probably going to see in the next couple of years is the companies that have just had conviction, they've had market leadership, there were real customers and real venture scale markets. You may actually see an acceleration of those companies”
Open the episode · E425: What 30,000 Founders Taught Me About AI, Judgment & Top FoundersListen at 25:28
Rapid foundation-model scaling has made long-term AI startup planning difficult.
“the volatility of who's going to win and how can you win as these new foundation model scale has made it hard.”
Open the episode · E425: What 30,000 Founders Taught Me About AI, Judgment & Top FoundersListen at 26:17
Many non-AI-economy customers neither know nor care about specific AI model names.
“many of those customers don't know and they frankly don't care.”
Open the episode · E425: What 30,000 Founders Taught Me About AI, Judgment & Top FoundersListen at 27:18
AI adoption is low across much of the economy, though high among developers.
“today, it's very low. Maybe developers, it's really high. But there's so many parts of the economy where it's barely 1%.”
Open the episode · E425: What 30,000 Founders Taught Me About AI, Judgment & Top FoundersListen at 27:55
A ten-year startup view requires evaluating defensibility.
“if you have a 10-year view, you're thinking about defensibility.”
Open the episode · E425: What 30,000 Founders Taught Me About AI, Judgment & Top FoundersListen at 33:55
AI tools can amplify venture investors’ existing priorities.
“some of these tools will help amplify the things that you care about.”
Open the episode · E425: What 30,000 Founders Taught Me About AI, Judgment & Top FoundersListen at 35:50
AI tools will not replace investor judgment or in-person trust-building.
“The parts that it's not going to replace is just the quality of your judgment, the quality of how you build trust in person.”
Open the episode · E425: What 30,000 Founders Taught Me About AI, Judgment & Top FoundersListen at 36:39
AI founder-screening tools may improve sourcing speed and meeting conversion.
“Can you reach out and find founders before anyone else? And can you also find a better hit rate from the first meeting to the second meeting?”
Open the episode · E425: What 30,000 Founders Taught Me About AI, Judgment & Top FoundersListen at 38:02
Writing is an indicator of clarity of thought.
“Writing matters for just clarity of thought as well.”
Open the episode · E425: What 30,000 Founders Taught Me About AI, Judgment & Top FoundersListen at 39:13
Past investment scar tissue can cause investors to miss new opportunities.
“You may miss the best opportunities because you're so focused on it not working again”
Open the episode · E425: What 30,000 Founders Taught Me About AI, Judgment & Top FoundersListen at 1:00:12
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