Gradient Ventures
fund on 5 shows · 5 statements across 2 episodes · said 21 times in 8 episodes since 2018
20VC 9 
Top Founders 4 
the MAD Podcast 4 
A Product Market Fit Show 3 
TBPN 1
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- 20VC: The Biggest Lessons From Working Alongside John Doerr, How To Optimize The Speed of Investment Decision-Making & Why Saying No Graciously Is The Most Important Thing with Shabih Rizvi, Founding Partner @ Gradient Ventures
- Building an Operating System for AI // Diego Oppenheimer, Algorithmia (FirstMark's Data Driven)
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Jain helped start Google's AI venture fund Gradient Ventures
“Before that, I helped start Google's AI venture fund, Gradient Ventures, right after the attention is all you need paper came out.”
Saying no graciously is the most important and difficult part of VC
“I think it's actually the hardest part of the job, because ultimately, as we touched on before, this is a services industry, and when founders come and pitch us, they're sharing their life vision, life dream. They've probably spent countless hours Ridiculous s…”
Unclear founder backgrounds or motivations trigger quick rejections at Gradient Ventures
“If they can't explain those two things relatively quickly, if that's not clear in a slide or in an email, then I would say it can be usually be a quick no, but a very polite no.”
Top founders deeply study past failures in their startup category
“I found that the best founders that are going after some of these categories, or maybe there have been companies that haven't worked up, have actually made an effort to connect with either people on those teams, or try and understand the story intimately well,…”