Silicon Valley

“So what I'm prioritizing is what a lot of other funds avoid, which is I'm going after first time founders. Primarily I'm going after second tier cities. And by second tier city, I mean like Atlanta, DC, Baltimore, Richmond, Minneapolis, Detroit, Chicago. I'm n…”

“We do not believe in a grow at all costs. Mentality. That is just not our mentality at all, and I know that's contrary to a lot of investors in Silicon Valley and whatnot”

“The typical MVP of the Silicon Valley startup, right? Doesn't sell in our industry.”

“Well, first of all, you know, in, in, in 2012, 80% of the unicorns came out of Silicon Valley. By 20 20, that was down almost to like 20, 25%.”

“And that was the Department of Defense's like first real move to try to build bridges between the kind of Silicon Valley innovation ecosystem and the national security apparatus.”

“Compared to New York or Silicon Valley, for example, if you're looking for an AI PhD developer you're paying half. The salary in London for what you pay in New York”

“I think that's a much more sort of robust and resistant to bad actor kind of design than having one giant LLM. You don't know how it operates because that's another problem. They're big black boxes and the value system was programmed in by five people at open …”

“I think for too long, too many people are trying to say, I want to be Silicon Valley here, as opposed to really concentrating and thinking about what their region might be known for, what are they really good at, and how can they find their niche in the entrep…”

“Even if you look at part of my research in undergrad, so I looked at, okay, even on the East Coast, there's plenty of innovation, but the Harvard-MIT geographical region hasn't yielded the same outcomes as, say, the Stanford-Berkeley, Silicon Valley region, ri…”

“Waterloo has the highest density of startups per capita in the world outside of Silicon Valley.”