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Machine learning is a 'game of kings' favoring big tech
“And machine learning is the game of kings.”
Benchmark partners are paid equally with no associates or principals
“Each of us are equal partners. We pay each other exactly the same. There's no associates, there's no principals,”
Great entrepreneurs prefer dealing directly with senior VC partners
“The premise of Benchmark was that the great entrepreneurs don't want to talk to that junior associate. They want to talk to the decision-making senior partner.”
Katz names Mike Volpe and Peter Fenton top open-source VCs
“And I believe, and there's a lot of very smart people that are deploying capital in this category, specifically open source and infrastructure, but my belief, and I'm biased obviously, is that they are the top two or, you know, two of the top five, let's say.”