Corey Jeffrey
Partner, Inovia Capital. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Kory Jeffrey is a Partner on the Venture Investment Team at Inovia Capital, focusing on Pre-seed to Series A software and deep tech investments. He previously spent nearly a decade at Google, serving as Chief of Staff of Engineering for Google Canada.
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17statements
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33%fully supported
Everything Corey Jeffrey said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Jeffrey: Next-gen AI labs are seeing $12B valuations at napkin stage
“I've seen back of the napkin Back of the napkin ideas of next gen tier one, AI labs that are valued at twelve billion dollars, starting with two billion of cash and are definitely going to raise again in 18 months, you know, to buy now.”
Jeffrey: AI automating routine tasks causes burnout through nonstop cognitive load
“When in computer science, often you'll hear people say like, hey, like maybe I'm a system design architect, right? And I, my job is to think about like what the big distributed system is going to look like in Google search. Well, you don't spend every minute o…”
Jeffrey: AI-supercharged humans, not autonomous machines, will drive job displacement
“And this is gonna be true of your job, my job, everybody's job in the future is like, You take an individual and you make them 10 times faster, a hundred times faster, whatever it is, it's that person that starts to eat up the world of jobs, not like the machi…”
Jeffrey: AI will not reduce code volume, just make code disposable
“There isn't going to be less code. The code just becomes less valuable throw away.”
Jeffrey: Slow Companies Will Be Outcompeted Even If Rivals Are Wrong
“And so like the risk to all these companies that are slow, Is that they're going to be outcompeted even if their competition is wrong, right?”
Jeffrey: San Francisco Tech Often Struggles Exporting Products Globally
“And my experience is that San Francisco is sometimes bad at bringing the products to the rest of the world, not fully baked for what works in San Francisco.”
Jeffrey: Entry valuation does not matter for seminal power-law companies
“There's only so many large enough seminal companies in an era that you're either in them or you're not. And if you're in them, then the valuation doesn't matter.”
Jeffrey: Startup transformation windows have compressed to three months
“You're seeing, you know, companies have to go through this walk through the desert and everything they need to do, which they used to have like six months to a year to do. They probably have three months.”
Jeffrey: AI Terminal Prompts Cannot Replace Last-Mile Product Development
“I don't subscribe to the view that we're all going to sit at like a blinking terminal line with that blinking empty cursor and you'll be able to type anything in and it'll just happen, right? I think that that's I think that is an oversimplification of how har…”
Jeffrey: Waterloo has world's highest startup density outside Silicon Valley
“Waterloo has the highest density of startups per capita in the world outside of Silicon Valley.”
Jeffrey: Most Canadian startups in Y Combinator come from Waterloo
“For most of the Canadian startups that go to places like Y Combinator, they come from the University of Waterloo.”
Jeffrey: Large VC funds are cascading into earlier investment stages
“You got growth investors who usually do CD doing A's and B's. You got A and B investors doing Seeds, you got seeds doing pre-seeds, you got pre-seed investors trying to invest in people before they know they have an idea, right? So it's like this knock-on effe…”
Jeffrey: AI app founders must be "wild experimentalists," not tech purists
“The profile of a founder at the application layer is a wild experimentalist, right? So you need somebody who's like right at the jagged edge of what's possible, who is not in love with their technology. Because their technology today is changing constantly und…”
Jeffrey: Base model AI startups struggle most bridging research to product
“And then on the model side, you're looking for like world expert, reinforcement learning people who have a scientific insight on something that what you're really trying to find there is how you compare the researcher's intuition With like product thinking and…”
Jeffrey: University of Waterloo lets inventors own 100% of their IP
“The university also has a very specific IP policy, which is if you're a professor or a student or whoever created it, you own it. The university owns none of it.”
Jeffrey: Canada hosts three of the world's top AI institutes
“Three of the top AI institutes in the world are in Canada. One's in Montreal. It's called Mila, around Yoshua Bengio who has invented deep neural nets, as well as the one in Toronto around the Vector Institute, which is Jeff Hinton, who is a Nobel Prize laurea…”
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| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 INNOVATORS & INVESTORSLEDGER | Partner, Inovia Capital | 1 | 17 | 33% 1/3 | full record on Innovators & Investors → |