Bucky Moore
Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Bucky Moore is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, focusing on early-stage enterprise infrastructure, developer tools, and artificial intelligence investments. Prior to joining Lightspeed, he spent seven years as a partner at Kleiner Perkins.
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11said about them ↓ Everything Bucky Moore said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Moore: Seed investors deliberately stoke founder fears over multi-stage signaling risk
“I will also say that any seed investor competing with a multi-stage firm will go very, very out of their way to instill this Wild fear in the founder's mind about like the risk of that.”
Moore: Frontier tech companies are growing 100% at multi-billion-dollar run rates
“I mean, these companies are compounding it over a hundred percent year over year in the billions of run rate. We have never seen that before, right?”
Moore: Massive valuations for OpenAI and Anthropic can still generate fund-level multiples
“And so when you look at investment like open AI at thirty billion or anthropic at sixty billion, you know, I can tell you these are opportunities that I personally believe have the upside to generate multiples versus say IRR.”
Moore: Billion-dollar checks in frontier AI could return up to $20B
“Is these are opportunities where you can invest 500 to a billion dollars in one of these companies, and if your underwriting plays out, potentially turn that into, you know, three, five, 10, maybe even twenty billion dollars if these companies turn out to be m…”
Moore: $50M to $70M valuation caps are untenable for $30M seed funds
“This can become untenable very quickly for these smaller funds, where, you know, investing at 50, 60, 70 caps is, you know, pretty hard to imagine how you make a lot of money as an, ah, you know, a thirty million dollar fund, for example.”
Moore: SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic will reach multi-trillion dollar outcomes
“We're talking about going from talking about 30 to fifty billion dollar outcomes to multi-trillion dollar outcomes in the form of SpaceX or OpenAI or Anthropic.”
Moore: Mega VC platforms must maintain early-stage investing to win mega-deals
“None of that matters if you don't maintain a lot of dedication to early stage investing. If you're Sam Altman or you're Dario and you're asking yourself, do I want to hitch my wagon to one of these firms by raising billions of dollars from one of them? You kno…”
Moore: OpenAI blocked investors in enterprise search startup Glean
“OpenAI famously saying, hey, if you're an investor in Glean, you don't get to be an investor in OpenAI, which would foreshadow they plan to play in that space.”
Moore: AI code generation startups face heavy threat from model providers
“I'd certainly be a little nervous about how the code gen stuff is going to play out today, because it seems like that is just far and away the killer use case for LLMs and therefore the one that these big model providers are going to lean into next from an app…”
Moore: Only five to six mega VC platforms will dominate the market
“It doesn't appear as though the supply of capital from platforms like the one that I've just joined or some of the others that we've talked about is going to go up in, in, in size. And so again, you could argue that these five to six firms kind of have this ca…”
Moore: AI companies replacing human labor will yield unprecedented scale
“These software companies that are not just augmenting, but in some cases replacing the work that humans do and the budget allocated towards paying them for that work, these companies are going to get bigger, right?”
Moore: Extra startup runway can be punitive due to founder opportunity cost
“Having that extra, you know, two or three years of runway can actually be really, really punitive Given the opportunity cost associated with amazing founders time.”
Moore: Enterprise CIOs face termination threats over AI adoption
“If you go and talk to a CIO or a CTO of a large enterprise today, they're furiously seeking out ways to apply AI to their business. And the reason for that is because their CEO and their board told them, you're going to get fired because the entire fate of our…”
Moore: AI expertise is scarcer and more vital than domain expertise
“You think it's the domain expertise that matters. It is without a doubt The AI expertise that is more scarce and therefore matters more.”
Moore: AI applications will be far better long-term businesses than model APIs
“And so what I've really come around to is that it's these products that are going to be built on top of these models, even inside of the model labs, not just by third parties that are going to be much, much more compelling businesses long-term than say the mod…”
Moore: Every frontier AI lab will build business and consumer products
“It seems very likely to me that in some form or another, Every single one of these frontier model labs will begin building both business and consumer facing products.”
Moore: AI would still create massive value if progress halted today
“And so I think as a result, like to me, AGI feels like it's here in a lot of ways, and even if we were to kind of say, hey, the capabilities that we have today are it, and it's not going to get any better, We are so early in bringing these capabilities to bear…”
Moore: VC will consolidate into a barbell structure
“I see a world in which both ends of the barbell really, really continue to rise, meaning small dedicated specialist firms on one end and large platforms on the other end. And I think that uncanny valley in between is is, is going to be an increasingly challeng…”
Moore: SpaceX, Anduril, OpenAI, and Anthropic could reach trillion-dollar valuations
“These companies that could be worth trillions of dollars someday. The SpaceX's, the Anduril's, the OpenAI's, the Anthropics.”
Moore: Megafunds expand into private credit due to unfair insights into tech
“And I think that to the extent these new products get introduced to the industry, it's gonna be because they see an unfair advantage, ah, in their ability to deliver on that because they have this unique insight into, like, what these companies really need and…”
Moore: A compelling venture brand can only be forged at early stages
“None of this matters if you don't have a compelling brand that I believe can only be forged at the earliest stages.”
Moore: Picking an investor is like hiring a general contractor, not marriage
“Because if you marry wrong, it's tragic, but you can get a divorce, right? You can make a change. Once you pick a general contractor, and I know this from personal experience, having remodeled the house with my wife a couple years ago, you are stuck with that …”
Moore: Founders should take contained investor meetings when not actively fundraising
“Don't not take investor meetings because you're not raising. And the reason for that is because you can do it in a contained way that allows you to understand what these people are about and who they are and do you vibe with them or not? And I think the proble…”
Moore: Formal board seats are usually unnecessary until Series A
“That said it's not clear to me that, that construct needs to exist at seed and pre-seed in a way that necessarily, like, makes the company better off. And so typically what I see is that there are cases where, like, the founder wants to form a board, they want…”
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