Neo

“SpaceX closes the sixty billion dollar all stock takeover of cursor, minting thousand X returns for the likes of Alipartovia Neo. Open AI startup fund is a mega winner who invested six to eight million dollars very early, which Rory, I thought of you when you …”

“So we will ship in twenty-twenty-six. Now, expectation managing here, it'll be slow in the beginning. We want to do it right. But there will be a handful of customers that get their NIO in twenty-twenty-six”

“We are going to allow a lot of people to build on NIO. So we are also launching NIO as a platform.”

“We sold out the first 10 K in the first few days.”

“I am very happy to say that I think we will actually be able to ship something that's very close to full autonomy, which we did not want to promise when we launched this because it was too early, but, and I'm not going to fully promise it yet, but the way it's…”

“It's the most binary fundraising environment in our lifetimes, isn't it? You're either, you know, you're either YC, Neo, South Park Commons, got something, get funded, or who the hell's gonna find you in your pre-seed round, right? You either got, you know, yo…”

“This is a, the best of times to be a Series A investor because there is just an explosion of seed AI startups. There's so many and they can't all get funded. And I know it's stressful. I know it's hard, but it is a gift that thousands of founders are in San Fr…”

“Today we just announced that we have raised three hundred and twenty million dollars in new funds.”

“It's our fourth fund on the heels of really successful bets on companies that we were the seed investor in, like Cursor, Kalshi, Blue Sky, and many more.”

“The real thing I look for, besides, I'd say technical ability is a kind of, it's an important prerequisite. We back technical founders. But I asked myself how magnetic is this person? That word magnetic. Specifically, I'm asking myself, if this person started …”

“This year, We actually created a, an event called parents weekend, where we flew out the parents of the neo scholars all for like a weekend long of like talks by Scott Wu from cognition and other, you know, other people who, whether they dropped out or started…”

“The majority of the Teal Fellows followed that path. They became a Teal Fellow Long after raising money, long after dropping out of college.”

“Last year, OpenAI hired all of their new grad hires through NEO.”

“NIO has like around two X better terms and it's like a tighter neck community, so it's like, it's only 20 20 startups per batch versus YC, I think it was like a 200 something.”

“Now, to be strong without misleading, all you need to do is to say, I won't accept that. You don't need to say why. You don't need to make implications for, I have a better offer or I don't. If you simply say, we won't do it for less than X, that's strength.”