Bucky Moore
20 statements across 1 episodes · 10 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 5, 2025 by Bucky Moore · said 7 times in 4 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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May 5, 2025 positive
Bucky Moore: Top venture returns come from concentrating capital in seed winners
“If you look at some of the best venture investments in history, they've been these seed investments in these companies that have gone on to grow really, really large, and they've come from an investor who's continued to concentrate more and more capital in tha…”
May 5, 2025 bullish
May 5, 2025
Bucky Moore: Traction Signals Founders Capable of Overcoming Market Limits
“I've already told you why I think people are more important than everything for one, and I think that some of the biggest mistakes I've made as an investor is when I've ignored traction because I've had reservations about the market. Traction is so hard to man…”
May 5, 2025
Moore: Perks don't win competitive VC deals, deep founder insights do
“Look, these parlor tricks exist. Every firm engages in them. Depending on founders, like, they either respond positively to it or not. But ultimately what I've found in practice is that none of that stuff really matters. What matters is did you put the work in…”
May 5, 2025 bullish
May 5, 2025 positive
May 5, 2025 bullish
Moore: AI would still create massive value if progress halted today
“And so I think as a result, like to me, AGI feels like it's here in a lot of ways, and even if we were to kind of say, hey, the capabilities that we have today are it, and it's not going to get any better, We are so early in bringing these capabilities to bear…”
May 5, 2025
Moore: Bad investments came from valuing technology over founder execution ability
“The bad investments that I've made, they've been because I've down weighted the execution capacity of the team and the quality of the team that the founders can build around them at the expense of my intrigue for the product and the technology.”
May 5, 2025 positive
May 5, 2025 positive
Bucky Moore: Venture liquidity constraints are not a permanent structural issue
“I do not think it's a permanent structural challenge because I believe that in the same way that great entrepreneurs flock towards white space, there will be solutions and new products that get devised by investment managers to solve for these liquidity challe…”
May 5, 2025 negative
May 5, 2025
Moore: Enterprise CIOs face termination threats over AI adoption
“If you go and talk to a CIO or a CTO of a large enterprise today, they're furiously seeking out ways to apply AI to their business. And the reason for that is because their CEO and their board told them, you're going to get fired because the entire fate of our…”
May 5, 2025
Moore: Investment selection is harder at prominent VC funds
“Look, so that strategy can definitely work, but I would argue, and this is maybe world's smallest violin, that picking is actually much, much harder. In these larger firms that have notoriety in the market. And the reason for that is because the opportunity se…”
May 5, 2025 neutral
Moore: Writing Small Early Checks Does Not Guarantee VC Access
“If you're going to start doing that as a later stage firm, you've got to be committed to putting the legwork in to actually use that as a wedge to develop that relationship that does give you the access. Because I think The check itself does not.”
May 5, 2025 bullish
Moore: Industrial applicability in robotics could surprise to the upside
“And when I look at like a trend like robotics that is still so, so early, but at least in my mind, I've convinced myself that this time is truly different in terms of the industrial prep in terms of the industrial applicability of these products. It really, to…”
May 5, 2025 negative
Moore: Countless talented founders are currently trapped in mediocre startups
“There are countless companies in the industry right now where you have really talented founders working on something that's kind of working, but maybe not working to the degree that they hope. And in some sense, they're kind of stuck with it.”
May 5, 2025 positive
May 5, 2025 neutral
Bucky Moore: The Bar for Startup Growth Rates Has Dramatically Risen
“And right now, to your point, the bar is going up for what best idea looks like when it comes to growth rates and momentum. We can talk about the quality of that revenue and how it's very mixed, and this has been discussed many times on this show and outside o…”
May 5, 2025 positive