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Taneja: Anthropic's enterprise business will be bigger than OpenAI's
“I think their enterprise business I'd argue will be bigger than OpenAI if it already isn't already not having spent that much.”
Taneja: Total venture capital value creation is noise compared to Big Tech
“When you look at the overall value created in venture compared to the Mag seven, it's noise.”
Taneja: Anthropic raised at ~20x ARR versus 50-100x for AI peers
“Anthropic this round probably was the cheapest round that got done this year on a multiple spaces. Which company was raising capital at, you know, at 20 times ARR? They're all raising capital at 50 to a hundred times ARR.”
Taneja: Microsoft generated the highest multiple return among OpenAI investors
“Taking that bet was hugely, hugely valuable for Microsoft. I think, and if you look at the return, by the way, if they put in twenty billion, they are the ones who have the highest multiple return as well. So it was a great investment on a financial basis and …”
Taneja: Anthropic could be worth $500B by next year
“So that's half a trillion dollar company, like by the end of next year. I'm not saying that's what it's going to be, but if they hit their numbers, I don't see why that won't happen. Just from, I'm just saying public market comps, like that's what those things…”
Taneja: General Catalyst's best returns come from seeding and creating companies
“I mean, look, our best returns have come from seeding companies like Stripe and Andurl or Creating companies like Kayak and Livongo and Camille and others, and so.”
General Catalyst acquired three seed funds to maintain early-stage focus
“And if you think about the last two years, you know, bringing on Jeanette and La Familia, Yuri and Wayfinder and Neeraj and Venture Highway, we've tried to really make sure at our core, we remain very Committed to doing the seed work with the same intensity an…”
General Catalyst claims unique portfolio of US, European, and Indian defense primes
“I think we're the only firm that's invested in a defense prime in US, Europe, and India. We did Andrel, we did, you know, invested in Helsing, and we invested in a company called Rafi in India.”
Taneja: General Catalyst operates a rapidly growing wealth management business
“We do, yeah, yeah, and that's, you know, it's actually growing rapidly. It's a you know, a fairly large business at this point.”
Taneja: Retail investor capital pool totals $16 trillion
“And there's like, 16 trillion dollars of retail capital.”
Taneja: General Catalyst combines company incubation with traditional venture investing
“Our firm is the partnership encourages each other to get excited about starting companies from scratch with great founders as well, so we do so much incubation, and we do investing alongside that, that I felt like this was a great hybrid way to spend time.”