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Staniszewski: Tech giants pay for AI talent to acquire model architecture know-how
“As I think about meta and others, they are of course paying for the know-how as much as they are paying for the raw talent too, where getting those early people gets you some insight into the models and architecture that you can then bring across and accelerat…”
Staniszewski: Continuous fundraising mode is destructive for startup founders
“I think it's a waste of time to, Kind of be in this, like, continuous fundraising mode. It's, you know, destructive. You need to have conversation. It's not useful.”
Staniszewski: Founders Should Value Investor Partnership Over a 20% Valuation Bump
“I don't like founders that are trying to do that too much. Like that if they are trying to get you to get the first time sheet to bump the other ones, I think it's a wrong approach. I think you should like, it's, you know, okay. If it's like order of magnitude…”
Staniszewski: Launch horizontal for novel tech, vertical when domain expertise exists
“I think if you're launching something very new, very different, and you don't yet fully know, you know, like, a subset of customer base, but you know that there is a bigger one, I think horizontal is, is completely fine. If you know, and you have domain expert…”
Staniszewski: Fire new hires immediately if unsure during first weeks
“If you are not unsure in the interview, but let's say you are bringing them, giving them a chance, and you are not sure in the first weeks or months, you should separate straight away, rather than keep giving, giving the chance.”
Staniszewski: Voice is becoming the primary interface for surrounding technology
“How now the interaction is shifting, where voice is this big interface for the technology around us.”
Staniszewski: Every funding round must tie directly into a product launch
“Our philosophy was always the round should have another purpose, which is Bring the product out and help you get the product into the users and celebrate a set of customers to show that you are arrived in a specific sector bring a new research model into play.…”
Staniszewski: Test investors with specific requests before accepting a term sheet
“Where you do get the interest from investors, I think this is the best time to actually test whether they can be helpful. And before you accept any term sheet, any money, it's like, Now, can you help me with angels that you want on cap table? Do you want the i…”
Staniszewski: European startups must build from Europe, not for Europe
“I think you want to be able to build from Europe, but not built only for Europe. And I think those two get conflated where sometimes building from Europe meant, okay, you are building for European ecosystem, which isn't the right thing. You still want the glob…”
Staniszewski: Optimize angel investors for missing domain and go-to-market expertise
“On angels, we would usually optimize for do they have domain expertise that we don't have? That's one category. Second, can they help us validate ourselves in specific, specific circles we might not have access to? So like if you are an AI founder, it's maybe …”