Aaron VanDevender
5 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 16, 2017 by Aaron VanDevender · said 6 times in 4 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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2019 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Scale Founder Alex Wang on How To Hire Incredible Talent Before You Are A Hot Company, Why Beating Competition Is Not As Clear Cut As Investors Believe & Why AI Is Under-Hyped Today In Terms of Total Impact
- 20VC: a16z Partner Frank Chen on The Future of Car Ownership, Whether The High Employee Attrition Rate in The Valley Is A Feature or A Bug & His Biggest Lessons From Netscape, Loudcloud & Opsware
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2017 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: The Value Chain of Machine Learning, Is There Really An Incumbency Advantage in ML & Will The Rise In Cyber Remain For the Long Term with Jake Flomenberg, Partner @ Accel
- 20VC: YC's Daniel Gross on How YC Can Democratise AI & Reduce Incumbency Advantages, Why ML Enabled Software Will Eat The Software That Ate The World & Whether AI Will Produce Independent Companies or Be Technology within Incumbents
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Oct 16, 2017 positive
VanDevender: Digital platforms increase the economic value of physical proximity
“The lesson has been that actually those digital technologies have actually made proximity more valuable. If you think about like where, where a lot of that value to people has come from, it's from companies like Lyft, like Postmates, a Craigslist, Amazon Prime…”
Oct 16, 2017 negative
Oct 16, 2017 bullish
VanDevender: Smaller datasets force self-driving car companies to build better algorithms
“Even if you have a much, much smaller data set than Google, you can still do a really good job of developing a self-driving car, and in fact, it almost forces you into a better position, because if you have complete knowledge of the entire street grid, you can…”
Oct 16, 2017
VanDevender: Drilling into specific technical details tests a founder's true depth
“Even if you don't necessarily yourself have the complete picture by just, you know, drilling down on specific aspects, you know, whether that person has, like, has all the answers and can go as deep as you want to go is a really good sign.”
Oct 16, 2017 negative
VanDevender: Defensive data moats are oversold and mostly noise
“Most of the data sets out there or the defensibility data sets out there I think are oversold. There is this very, it's a very compelling, very tantalizing notion that, oh, I just have so much data, and nobody else has it, and therefore it must be special, but…”