Keith Raboy

“He's the one who convinced Keith Raboy to move To Miami.”

“She published a paper that was false. Like, her whole claim to fame is this paper about Amazon. And the data in the Amazon, the data she used in the paper at Yale was false.”

“At the end of the day, the only data point is, is this founder capable of building an iconic company? Period. And I prefer to compete when there's no metrics, because all the metrics you're gonna do is confuse you.”

“What I realized about where I am in my career in tech is if I stop doing what I do, I'm never going to come back. Like technology is rapidly emerging. We're going to talk about all the latest developments this week. Like you can't take your foot off the gas in…”

“First of all, I think there's a long time before this becomes a commercial product or application of any sort. So, you know, it's great that they're taking money, but think about it as like almost like Stanford takes money or the U S government funds basic res…”

“If I meet a founder and there's a keynote deck, there's no product, there's no metrics, that's my sweet spot. Because I also know nobody else in venture is good at that. Nobody else is still active in venture.”

“There are advantages Apple has in AI. But there's some significant organizational structural disadvantages, and that's the field that people are going to be competing on for the next five years from a consumer perspective, and they're playing on a field where …”

“You don't drive returns in venture to an institutional venture capital fund through an M&A. Like WhatsApp may be the only one that really drove a fund returning exit to a serious fund.”

“Over the years, I've sat through partner presentations, and we've never really pulled the trigger.”

“I'm in like the prime of my venture career. I'm only 12 years in actually, Chamath. So figure five, 10 more years, like is the sweet spot. And so I'd like to see the companies that I was involved in grow up, become public companies, et cetera. And I didn't fee…”

“I always mentioned that I don't like people with expertise typically as founders.”

“So the large, largest players, the NVIDIAs of the world, do benefit the more people that run, compute, etc. But then I think that the smaller businesses actually eat at mid-market companies because they can compete now and they've been at an economic disadvant…”

“There's almost always a choice in the United States. It's just people don't know where to find them, and how to negotiate with them, and how to get in touch with them even. And so that's a solved problem now through AI.”