James Cameron
Investor, Accel · Filmmaker. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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James Cameron is an early-stage investor at Accel focusing on enterprise software, security, fintech, and marketplaces. He previously founded BipSync and worked in tech banking at Morgan Stanley.
2shows
2appearances
16statements
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14said about them ↓ Everything James Cameron said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Cameron: Meta Horizon and Disney+ will transform 3D distribution within 18 months
“The only reason they don't is because there's no defined distribution model. But that's coming. That's what the Disney Plus agreement with Meta Horizon TV itself, you know, it's, everything's gonna change in the next 18 months.”
Cameron: Generative AI will only significantly cut costs for VFX-heavy films
“I think what you'll get, I think it's going to affect The middle to the high end of the curve in the following way. Most films involve VFX now. And it's going to affect the toe of the curve. But the lower part of the slope is not going to change that much, and…”
Israel has more NASDAQ listings than Europe, China, and Japan combined
“You've got this country that's got, what, like, eight million people, and it's got more NASDAQ-listed companies than all of Europe, plus China, plus Japan combined.”
Accel would back Deliveroo founder Will Shu on virtually any idea
“Will Shue over at Deliveroo. I mean, the guy could get anything off the ground. I think it's just a level of ambition and sheer bloody mindedness that makes you want to back him no matter what company. He could come in with Facebook for dogs and I think we'd p…”
Cameron: Movie theater brightness is often a fraction of Meta Quest displays
“Movie theaters are supposed to run 16 foot Lamberts which is a metric like knits, right? I don't know how many nits it's equivalent of. And that's based on the SMPTE kind of engineering standard for the movie industry, but very few of them do, and they're most…”
Accel typically knows founders for up to 12 months before investing
“I think overall, we probably know our founders for, you know, upwards of 12 months sometimes before we before we make an investment.”
Containers represent a generational platform shift in IT infrastructure
“We're firmly convinced this is one of those rare sort of developments in IT infrastructure. There's sort of a generational shift which has huge repercussions. I mean, this is similar to what we saw when sort of mainframes went to client server or the advent of…”
Public companies are shifting massive budgets to cybersecurity vendors
“There's not a boardroom at a public company in the country that's not absolutely terrified of the stuff happening to them. And so we're seeing huge amounts of budgets being shifted into cyber security vendors.”
Big data and analytics is technology's most overused buzzword
“I think you ask a lot of people, and they'll tell you sort of that big data and analytics is the most overused buzzword in technology.”
Vertical-specific analytics applications are significantly under-hyped
“I think what's an under-hyped area in the same general ballpark is sort of these vertical specific applications of analytics.”
Enterprise software startups must win the US to become global leaders
“Ultimately, if you're building an enterprise software business today, you know, you want to become a global leader, it means becoming a leader in the US.”
Venture capital naturally flows across borders to back great founders
“Yeah, I mean, I think VC money does flow naturally across borders. I mean, just look at where we invest. We'll come anywhere. We'll go out of our way to find companies.”
Crossing the Chasm has everything needed to scale enterprise software
“More, I think, you know, I think there's everything you ever need to learn about scaling an enterprise software company is in that book.”
Accel rejected James Cameron's startup pitch before hiring him as an investor
“But oddly enough, the first interaction I had with Accel was when I went in there and I was pitching them my business. So I was on the other side of the table from where I am now. And it was a good experience. You know, I was politely shown the door. I said, t…”
Accel made its first New Zealand investment in accounting software Xero
“In New Zealand, even, we did our first Kiwi investment this year, a company called Xero.”
Cybersecurity lifecycles always lag behind major IT platform shifts
“The classic security life cycle is always, You know, infrastructure shifts into a new platform attackers find vulnerabilities in that platform, and then the security community has to come and sort of remediate and solve those problems.”
The other half of the tape: James Cameron's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 13 times in 8 episodes across the shows. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →
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20VC 3
2026 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2025 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2016 2 mentions in 1 episode
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| 20VCLEDGER | Investor, Accel | 1 | 13 | 50% 1/2 | full record on 20VC → |
| TBPNLEDGER | Filmmaker | 1 | 3 | 100% 1/1 | full record on TBPN → |