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frontier tech

5 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Mar 6, 2017 by John Borthwick · across every show →

Everything said about frontier tech, oldest first

Mar 6, 2017 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Borthwick: Conversational AI and frontier tech will take 5 to 10 years to mature
“Well, you know what? Is that I wouldn't have expected them to be anything but disappointing, because they are going to take, it is going to take five to 10 years for us to figure out how to talk to machines.”
John Borthwick Mar 6, 2017 ▶ 20:20 20VC: Betaworks' John Borthwick on Why The VC Model Is So Inefficient, Why Venture Fund Cycles Are Too Short & Why Frontier Tech Could Only Have Been Disappointing Over The Last Year
May 10, 2017 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Josh Wolfe: Tourist VCs investing in frontier tech will lose a lot of money
“I think that there are a lot of tourist VCs who are in these domains that are going to lose a lot of money”
Josh Wolfe May 10, 2017 ▶ 7:22 20VC: The 3 Forms Of Edge A Founder Can Have, Lessons From Being on A Board With Bill Gates & Why There Are A Lot Of Tourist VCs Who Are Going To Lose A Lot Of Money, with Josh Wolfe, Co-Founder @ Lux Capital
May 17, 2017 negative
Insight
Raney: VCs investing in complex tech without domain depth face losses
“People that go out and read a handful of blogs and then decide that they're going to be investing in these categories are likely to experience a lot of pain.”
Scott Raney May 17, 2017 ▶ 14:01 20VC: Why It Is Good Company Funding Has Been Down 6 Quarters In A Row, Why Unanimity Does Not Work In VC Decision-Making & Why It Is Dangerous To Be A Spreadsheet Investor with Scott Raney, Partner @ Redpoint Ventures
May 29, 2017 neutral
Insight
Zaveri: Broad themes like frontier tech are marketing labels needing sub-themes
“Themes have sub-themes. So, you know, if you are sort of a, hey, we're frontier tech, You know, we're frontier tech investors, or, you know, we invest in machine intelligence. That's very broad at that point. Is it autonomous driving? Is it smarter application…”
MZ Zaveri May 29, 2017 ▶ 18:50 20VC: Kleiner Perkins' MZ Zaveri on Why Success In Venture Is About The 3 F's, How VCs Can Manage Deal Heat & Is There Too Much Venture Dollars At Seed
Oct 18, 2017 neutral
Insight
Arbesman: Frontier tech is too broad to be treated as a single category
“While there might be certain similarities, I think frontier tech overall, and it's really this, it's very broad and diffuse space, and so in many ways I'm almost hesitant to group it all under kind of that umbrella term. And because the knowledge you need to d…”
Sam Arbesman Oct 18, 2017 ▶ 19:46 20VC: Lux Capital's Scientist-In-Residence on Why We Cannot Just Be Specialists Today, The Benefits of Interdisciplinary Thinking & Computational Creativity That Makes Man and Machine Partners with Sam Arbesman
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