Tim Chang

Everything Tim Chang said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

20VC Prediction Partly held up

Chang: Startups face an upcoming Series A and Series B funding crunch

“Let's call a spade a spade, and there is no real seed two or seed three. That's basically a bridge, right? That pretty much means you haven't found proper product market fit to extend over into a proper series A, so we will see a big series A crunch series B c…”

Tim Chang Jan 16, 2017 ▶ 8:46 20VC: Why We Will See A Big Series B Crunch? Why Proprietary Data Pools & AI Talent Will Be The New Limited Natural Resources? Why Now Is The Closest Thing To A New Normal with Tim Chang, Managing Director @ Mayfield Fund

20VC Insight

Chang: Small $750K seed rounds leave startups undercapitalized for Series A

“So the undercapitalized seed or series A will be the new big risk for founders. It is easy to get that first seed round because there's so many seed funds around and it's easy to do a rolling close and do, you know, a safe note and get your seven 50 K in. But …”

Tim Chang Jan 16, 2017 ▶ 9:15 20VC: Why We Will See A Big Series B Crunch? Why Proprietary Data Pools & AI Talent Will Be The New Limited Natural Resources? Why Now Is The Closest Thing To A New Normal with Tim Chang, Managing Director @ Mayfield Fund

20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated

Chang: Data-poor AI startups will be acqui-hired by major tech incumbents

“If startups can't train on massive proprietary data sets, then they'll never get that advantage on their algorithms. And then they're really targeted for, you know, acqui-hire by Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google, et cetera.”

Tim Chang Jan 16, 2017 ▶ 13:55 20VC: Why We Will See A Big Series B Crunch? Why Proprietary Data Pools & AI Talent Will Be The New Limited Natural Resources? Why Now Is The Closest Thing To A New Normal with Tim Chang, Managing Director @ Mayfield Fund

20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated

Chang: Applying AI to existing industries will drive startups for a decade

“Whether it's AR, VR, my favorite AI machine learning, you know, the business plan of the next 10 years will be take machine learning AI, add it to existing industry X, disrupt the whole thing.”

Tim Chang Jan 16, 2017 ▶ 6:48 20VC: Why We Will See A Big Series B Crunch? Why Proprietary Data Pools & AI Talent Will Be The New Limited Natural Resources? Why Now Is The Closest Thing To A New Normal with Tim Chang, Managing Director @ Mayfield Fund

20VC Insight

Chang: Proprietary data and AI talent are the new oil and gold

“Proprietary data pools and AI talent are the new natural limited resources. They are the new oil and gold, if you will.”

Tim Chang Jan 16, 2017 ▶ 13:28 20VC: Why We Will See A Big Series B Crunch? Why Proprietary Data Pools & AI Talent Will Be The New Limited Natural Resources? Why Now Is The Closest Thing To A New Normal with Tim Chang, Managing Director @ Mayfield Fund

20VC Disclosure

Chang: Mayfield invested in Next Entertainment to export China's live-streaming model

“So this is a company called Next Entertainment. They are taking the China live streaming phenomena and trying to see if that playbook will apply to the rest of the world. A rare case of instead of China doing copy-paste ventures on a successful US model may be…”

Tim Chang Jan 16, 2017 ▶ 23:51 20VC: Why We Will See A Big Series B Crunch? Why Proprietary Data Pools & AI Talent Will Be The New Limited Natural Resources? Why Now Is The Closest Thing To A New Normal with Tim Chang, Managing Director @ Mayfield Fund

20VC Disclosure

Chang: Mayfield partners review up to 800 deals to make 1-3 investments

“The normal pace for a fund like us, you know, mainstream early stage VC firm of three 50 to four hundred million, we're typically doing 10, 12 deals a year, right? So a mainline VC, we're probably seeing anywhere from 400 to 800 deals a year personally and doi…”

Tim Chang Jan 16, 2017 ▶ 7:49 20VC: Why We Will See A Big Series B Crunch? Why Proprietary Data Pools & AI Talent Will Be The New Limited Natural Resources? Why Now Is The Closest Thing To A New Normal with Tim Chang, Managing Director @ Mayfield Fund

The other half of the tape: Tim Chang's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 10 times in 4 episodes across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 7Rick Marini 3

Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Tim's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
20VCLEDGER	Managing Director, Mayfield Fund	1	7	0% 0/1	full record on 20VC →