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Doug Leone: Investors will overestimate AI in the short term

Doug Leone · E118: AI FOMO frenzy, macro update, Fox vs Dominion, US vs China & more with Brad Gerstner · Mar 3, 2023 · at 8:03

Doug Leone, partner at Sequoia Capital, warns about venture capital FOMO and over-investing during the generative AI boom.

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“We're going to overestimate it in the short term. We're going to invest in everything in the same way that in 1999, we invested in everything.”

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Doug Leone predicts venture investors will overestimate AI in the short term and invest indiscriminately, mirroring the 1999 dot-com bubble.

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