Base10 Partners
fund on 5 shows · 8 statements across 5 episodes · said 22 times in 9 episodes since 2020
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Borzin: Base10 and Fireworks AI run on over a dozen compute providers
“Both of them run on more than a dozen compute providers, depending on what you want to call them.”
Fonseca: Only distribution, data, and workflows create GenAI moats
“But now TJ and I are pretty sure that only three things matter, and it's whether you can distribute, so it's distribution, it's your data, and it's the workflows. Only these three things matter.”
Fonseca: Incumbents will capture most early GenAI value
“A lot of the value, not all, but a lot of the value in this early platform shift is going to be captured with income by the incumbents. And naturally it's because they already have huge advantages on distribution data and workflows over their upstart competito…”
Fonseca: Notion AI will likely reach $100M+ ARR in the near term
“And they've been able to price that in such a way that our guess is it'll probably be a hundred million Plus AR business in the near term for them, and they're charging essentially an upsell of seven to 10 dollars to be able to turn on Notion AI.”
Fonseca: Top generative AI startups sell value propositions, not AI buzzwords
“Some of the most interesting generative AI companies that I've met don't even talk about generative AI. They don't even mention it, but it's powering everything in the background, and what they're selling is just a value prop.”
Powers: Base10 donates half of growth fund returns to HBCU scholarships
“As part of the Advancement Initiative, which is our growth stage fund, where we invest in top tech companies and then we, as a firm, donate half of our returns to create scholarships at historically black colleges and universities”
Vandenberghe: Base10 offered Chili Piper $15M on $55M pre at 12x ARR
“So that deal was June 20, 20. It was based then. And they offered 15 on 55 pre.
28 years.
So we're doing around four plus million.
So it's, it was
around 12 X. There was a number, 12 X run rate.”