Roy Bahat
13 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 7 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 13, 2016 by Roy Bahat · said 13 times in 6 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Zoom From Series A to IPO, How VCs Can Provide CEOs with Additional Leverage and Why The Negative Effects of Signalling Are Very Real with Santi Subotovsky, General Partner @ Emergence Capital
- 20VC: Worklife Ventures' Brianne Kimmel on Why More Operators Should Start Their Own Fund, How To Structure Your Round for the Highest Signal Round & What The Multi-Stage Funds Playing At Seed Means For The Rest of The Asset Class
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2017 2 mentions in 1 episode
2016 7 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
- 20VC: Greenfield Opportunities For Machine Learning, Why Massive Corporates Finally See It's Potential & Why VC's Investment Decision Making Process Needs To Change with James Cham, Partner @ Bloomberg Beta
- 20VC: Is Big Data Still A Thing with Matt Turck, Managing Director at FirstMark Capital
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
Everything said about Roy Bahat, oldest first
Apr 13, 2016
First-mover companies consistently lose to those who build the best product
“I mean, I think we tend to be obsessed with first in the technology industry, and first loses to best every time. You know, the first iOS app companies were not the best iOS app companies, you know, platform after platform, and I think that's exactly what we'r…”
Apr 13, 2016 bearish
Big data produced valuable technologies but very few valuable standalone businesses
“The, you know, the quote-unquote big data thing Turns out to have produced a number of very valuable technologies, not that many valuable businesses and part of it is because the data on its own, as everybody knows, is, you know, it's just information.”
Apr 13, 2016 negative
Horizontal black-box AI startups face severe go-to-market challenges without consulting
“The warning is, if you're startup is, hey, I've got a black box that does machine intelligence. Let me try to apply it to a bunch of different situations. Then I think the going is very hard. You know, you probably have to start with some consulting services. …”
Apr 13, 2016 bullish
Roy Bahat identifies eldercare as the number one untapped startup opportunity
“We don't invest in the space of things that serve people's personal lives, but if I did, I think services for the elderly are the number one untapped opportunity, and just wait till we have more sixty-five-year-old tech founders, because they'll see the opport…”
Apr 13, 2016 bearish
Proprietary data access is the primary bottleneck in machine intelligence development
“At least today, access to the data is the limiting factor. Which means, by the way, not only do companies like Facebook and Google have an advantage, but pretty much every old industrial incumbent, if it has a way of getting at its data and making use of it, a…”
Apr 13, 2016 bullish
Apr 13, 2016 negative
Method-only AI startups without specific applications usually end up as acqui-hires
“If what you're talking about is, I guess I'd call them method-only companies, you know, some technology that you think can be applied to a wide variety of situations, and you're not really building around any one of them, then yes, then I do think that is aqua…”
Oct 18, 2019 negative
Oct 18, 2019 bearish
Oct 18, 2019 negative
Bahat: Formal seed-stage board meetings are ludicrous and distract founders
“And it's turned into this advice-giving, checking-in governance body, and at the stage at which we invest, where founders are making critical decisions daily, the idea of meeting once every month, or two months, or three months, and doing a PowerPoint presenta…”
Oct 18, 2019
Bahat: A founder's personal financial situation heavily drives startup decision-making
“The founder financial situation is one of the most personal financial situation is one of the most important and under discussed aspects of the life of a company, because it's going to drive so much decision making.”
Oct 18, 2019 positive
Oct 18, 2019 positive