Victor Lazarte
14 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 14, 2025 by Victor Lazarte · said 29 times in 9 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (16), Brendan Foody (6), Adarsh Hiremath (5), Tarek Mansour (2)
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2026 2 mentions in 1 episode
2025 26 mentions in 7 episodes 4 per episode
- Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Mercor CEO & Co-Founder, Brendan Foody: How They Grew from $1M to $500M in 17 Months · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Adarsh Hiremath @ Mercor: The Fastest Growing Startup in Silicon Valley | E1261 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- a16z's $20BN Fund & Founders Fund's $4.6BN & Why Josh Kushner Has Mastered the Game · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on Raising $1BN, CNN and CNBC Deals & the Polymarket Feud · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Figma's 250% Pop - The Greatest IPO Mispricing Ever? Meta & Microsoft Blowout Quarters: Broken Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20Product: How Scale AI and Harvey Build Product | Why PMs Are Wrong: They are not the CEOs of the Product | How to do Pre and Post Mortems Effectively and How to Nail PRDs | The Future of Product Management in a World of AI with Aatish Nayak
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Apr 14, 2025 bullish
Lazarte: U.S. is winning the AI race against China by all measures
“I think by all, like, I think by all measures, like the U.S. Is winning. If you look at, like, all the AI products, like, ChatCPT is the most used, ah, AI assistant in the world, and sure, you can talk about, like, oh, how about DeepSeq and this and that, but …”
Apr 14, 2025 bearish
Lazarte: Character AI is merely the Friendster of AI companions
“In a few years, we're going to look back, and we're going to say that Character AI was Friendster. And what I mean by that is there's going to be a company that is going to be very important, and we'll look back and we'll say Character AI was the precursor of …”
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Lazarte: Early Brazilian VC deals included predatory 20x liquidation preferences
“So I had friends that they raised money in Brazil and they agreed to like a 20 times liquidation preference, which seems like oh, yeah, there's this clause in the contract, but I don't really know what it is. And yeah, like, people do that, and they end up los…”
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Lazarte: Best early Wildlife Studios term sheet offered $50k for 50%
“The idea was, like, I loved mobile games, and I thought it was going to be a good business, but there wasn't, like, a very strong, well-thought-out thesis, and I guess that's why, like, the best term sheet that we got is someone offered us, like, 50,000 dollar…”
Apr 14, 2025
Lazarte: I have done four Benchmark deals, co-founding one of them
“Yeah, so I've done, so I mean, I've done four companies since I started at Benchmark. Three have been this way. And then the fourth one, I actually, I'm a co-founder. So I started the company with someone that, that I knew for a long time.”
Apr 14, 2025 bullish
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Apr 14, 2025 bullish
Lazarte: AI agent UI shifts allow startups to rebuild incumbent businesses
“Whenever you have a shift, like, a UI shift of this magnitude, a lot of the businesses, like, they don't adapt, and so I think there's an opportunity to recreate a lot of the successful business of today in an agent format.”