Rebecca Lynn, General Partner at Canvas Ventures, describes the background of Luminar founder Austin Russell when evaluating Canvas's investment in the LiDAR startup.
“At the age of 15, he was running a laser lab at the Beckman Laser Institute, and never graduated from high school or college, and Stanford pulled them into their applied physics program, and he dropped out as like one of the first Teal Fellows, right?”
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“You could imagine a case where, you know, maybe the top five percent of physicians, you know, you're not going to get better then, right? Maybe not the top 10%. But as you get down that stack, you know, AI's probably going to do a better job, right?”
Lynn: Recessions freeze bank lending for 3-5 years, creating prime credit opportunities
“Because in any recession, like, there's always a pocket of prime borrowers to lend to, and the banks weren't going to free up for another three to five years to do anything on that front.”
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