Ian Rountree
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Rountree: Chaos Industries Has Worse Technology but Superior Commercial Execution
“There's, you know, a much better funded company incubated by ABC called Chaos Industries, which I personally think has worse technology, but they're doing a lot better because they've productized this, they're very good at selling it, they're very good at mark…”
Rountree: Selling low-cost commodities offsets deep tech technical risk
“Why I love commodities is because
It offsets the technical risk we're taking with less market risk, because I know if I'm selling a commodity, i.e., my product is molecularly identical to the competitors, but I have a cost advantage, I know you can sell that.”
Rountree: Startups with customer sales cycles over 18 months are de facto dead
“The main reason that startups are time limited is because you raise serially in, like, you know, whatever, you raise 18, 24 months of runway, and so, let's say you raise 24 months of runway, you need to start fundraising, let's say, six months before you run o…”
Rountree: Perfecting Technology in the Lab Delays Crucial Commercial Learning
“One of the things I didn't see there is that the learning curve matters. And once you start doing a thing, you tend to get better at it. And if you're commercializing something at small scale, you're kind of working out all the kinks that if you're, you know, …”
Rountree: Earth AI acquired rights and now owns valuable deposits
“Earth AI went out and Bought rights and drilled their own hypotheses, and we now own deposits that we think are very valuable.”
Rountree: Selling software to legacy industries limits operational innovation
“Every single time we've invested in a capable team or watched a capable team go after an industry with a lot of inertia there are a thousand little things that can be improved upon that if you're not, Taking that on, and you're just selling into the industry, …”
Rountree: Khosla took market risk by investing in Impossible Foods
“Yeah, but he invested in impossible foods, forgetting that there was market risk there.”
Rountree: Defense tech startup wave was created by Anduril
“Look at this Defense tech wave. And now it's like the hottest area outside of AI. And that was more or less created by Andrew. And I'll give a lot of credit to Palmer, one of the four founders of that company for, like, completely reversing this trend.”
Rountree: Great science is only valuable if it produces excess profit
“The only point of a startup or a business in general is to create profit margins above and beyond its cost of capital. And technology can be a very interesting means to that end, But it is only a means to that end. And just because your technology is mind-blow…”
Rountree: Cantos expressly does not invest in nuclear fusion
“There are some very interesting initiatives to bring fusion energy about. It is expressly the type of science that we at Kantos do not invest in.”
Rountree: Early Cantos investment failed due to long Ford and Toyota sales cycles
“And one of my very first investments at Cantos in 2016 was a startup that had incredible machine learning and interoperability software that it was selling into the automotive industry, into industrial robots. Absolutely best in class, and we would hear this t…”
Rountree: Analyzing counterparty compensation reveals why enterprise sales cycles stall
“Like, whenever someone's behavior in a business context doesn't make sense to me, I try to learn how they're paid, and usually the answer comes to the fore that way. And so, if you can just understand people's incentives, you can navigate around that and somet…”
Rountree: A third of public biotechs traded below cash value
“For a while, like a third of publicly traded biotechs were Trading below cash.”
Rountree: Cantos evaluates founders across six axes emphasizing narrative and talent gravity
“Now we flesh it out actually have internally like a way of scoring founders along six axes and how we tease out each of those. And a lot of them are around the qualitative. It's sort of, you know, it's talent gravity. It's narrative ability.”
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