Offline Ventures
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8 statements about Offline Ventures, every show
Morin: Passed on Jasper because models would do copywriting natively
“I remember we looked at internally, we looked at all the versions of Jasper, what there was Jasper, there was another copywriting tool, there was a story writing tool, and we actually at the time were like, eh, like this seems obvious that the models are going…”
Dave Morin: Founders are pitching AI-generated startups they don't even understand
“We have founders that show up and they will start showing me their idea and they'll clearly have vibe coded, whatever it is they're showing me. And they'll be trying to explain the idea. And it's clear they don't actually understand the idea and that the AI ac…”
Morin: Slow Ventures and Offline Ventures never submit data to investor rankings
“When I was building Slow Ventures, we were non-attribution. We never submitted data, right? And so we like, we're never on any of these lists. We do the same thing at offline. We really are non-attribution. We don't submit data, right?”
Portfolio startup CSO's lab was hit by a missile, Morin says
“We had a, one of the chief science officers of one of our startups his lab got hit with a missile yesterday.”
Brit Morin: Dumping venture capital money into legal AI startups is foolish
“Got pitched another legal AI startup that's like, yeah, create your legal docs for you in five seconds. There are, like, 50 right now, and people have dumped so much money in this, in the venture ecosystem, that's stupid, and so I do think there are a lot of t…”
Brit Morin argues venture funds should recycle capital to preserve follow-on capacity
“I believe you should recycle. I think that's how you actually preserve a lot of follow on capital so that you can write more sort of initial checks.”
Morin: Offline Studio starts 100 projects yearly for under $50K each
“And, you know, at offline, you know, we run a thing called offline studio. We start 100 projects per year right now. And one of the key things that we do is anytime we're starting a new idea, we try to implement it, you know, five, 10 different ways for extrem…”