James Cham

“I think some people become VCs because they like the opportunity for fantastic returns, and some people become VCs because they read too much science fiction.”

“Now, what's interesting, when we first started talking about machine learning three years ago, I think it was still seen as something that only tech companies were interested in, and what's changed over the last three years is that now everyone's interested. T…”

“The danger, though, is that a lot of the conversation focuses on what I would call either Theological questions about the end of the world, which is interesting, but I think oftentimes not relevant, or questions around straightforward labor replacement, and I …”

“I think machine intelligence is not going to be, at least in the near term, you know, one big intelligence, but as it is for our own brains, many small intelligences and many, many small systems that help us make Good decisions or make decisions for us and do …”

“My own bet is that you'll see a lot of that happening over the next few years as the number of high profile projects inside corporations end up not yielding fruit in part because the problem was not defined well enough, or there was an assumption that If we ju…”

“There's going to be something, some similar insight and some similar buzzword about the separation of models and the ability to share insights of models between companies while at the same time not actually sharing data.”

“The more data you get, the more valuable it is actually for the SaaS company, right? And so all the normal units of measure around how much you should charge are, don't really apply and don't entirely make sense.”

“I think we live now in a world where everyone is a knowledge worker, and so everyone from the construction worker to the chef, the line chef, will have a Android phone and will be able to digitize their work.”

“And I think that frame of thinking is a helpful frame and has, is going to lead to A huge number of startups.”

“Groups are really good at Getting new diverse points of view and new bits of information. And groups are actually also really good at doing complex coordinated tasks. Groups are uniquely bad at making interesting decisions.”

“The best investment decisions were always very, very controversial.”

“In our firm at least, we've made the decision that anyone can say yes.”

“Is that it is the act of creation, and I think that the act of creation, that is to say making something from nothing or something from very, very little, is as close as we'll really get to doing the work of God.”