Accel

“I do think that the trend line is towards the cloud. You know, if you look at where applications are getting launched these days and where the data resides, they're not going to pull that back into the, Four walls to do their data munging, right? They're gonna…”

“It's such a great time to be a startup right now because the incumbents are so far behind. They have not innovated, ah, in the last decade. And any of the big data dimensions are the applications, storage, the data layers.”

“Do you think you're gonna have a fundamental algorithmic advantage in perpetuity or not? And in the vast majority of cases the answer is almost demonstrably no.”

“Synthezia just became a unicorn, which is much rarer these days, even in AI. Reaching a billion dollar evaluation in a series C round of financing that literally just closed and that was led by our friends at Excel.”