Amplify Partners

“They all have struggled a bit as a category. Many of them have been, you know, acquired subsequently which suggests that like, this was not, you know, perhaps a standalone category as a data scientist.”

“Like upwards of a hundred million dollars in a seed round where you have a long-term vision, but not a near-term roadmap. This is something that I'm seeing happening not just occasionally, but quite Frequently.”

“I, I've been investing for seven, eight years now, and it's something that I think about a lot, but frankly, like, I don't see that many patterns related to, you know, successful founders or those who don't succeed.”

“I find myself constantly, like, reminding technical founders, including those within the Amplify portfolio, that, like, they don't need to learn things from first principles, or even from experimenting, like, They can just ask people who know how to do it, and…”

“I try not to see more than, like, two or three pitches a week.”

“So we raised a seed round with Amplify Partners, and then we got Battery Ventures to join that round, and we raised 4.8 million with them.”

“If you're really, really, really honest, it's finding the 10 X teams, and you can kind of figure out the markets later, and so that's not like a very tweetable line, but I think it's the truth.”

“We have a portfolio company in the med tech space where, you know, my dad was a pathologist, and when I was a kid, it would take him 20 minutes to analyze a case to determine whether or not you had cancer. You know, I think in a minute, ah, these guys can anal…”

“I mean, for one of our companies, one of the things they did was they looked internationally first, which is not a typical strategy for us, but it was finding data partners who had access to kind of what Jake was talking about, right, kind of this unfair acces…”