Bucky Moore
11 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 5, 2025 by Bucky Moore · said 4 times in 2 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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May 5, 2025 neutral
Moore: Departing partners typically transition startup board seats back to their firm
“As personal a relationship as I have with each founder I work with, I have to remind myself that I was representing Kleiner Perkins on the board of all these companies that I served on, and I think with that, now that I've moved over to Lightspeed, there's thi…”
May 5, 2025 bullish
Moore: Current AI is a lifetime economic opportunity even if progress halts
“I think what I mean to say by making the bold statement that ASI appears to be here in some sense is that I think if progress were to grind to a screeching halt, we still have what I believe to be like the most incredible economic opportunity of our lifetime i…”
May 5, 2025 neutral
Moore: Formal board seats are usually unnecessary until Series A
“That said it's not clear to me that, that construct needs to exist at seed and pre-seed in a way that necessarily, like, makes the company better off. And so typically what I see is that there are cases where, like, the founder wants to form a board, they want…”
May 5, 2025 bullish
Moore: Billion-dollar checks in frontier AI could return up to $20B
“Is these are opportunities where you can invest 500 to a billion dollars in one of these companies, and if your underwriting plays out, potentially turn that into, you know, three, five, 10, maybe even twenty billion dollars if these companies turn out to be m…”
May 5, 2025 negative
Moore: Junior investors mistakenly invest in startups purely matching their market maps
“The big mistake that some investors make, especially earlier in their career, because thesis driven work is, is a little bit easier to do than say developing relationships with people, which takes a lot longer. Is they tend to go and find the best company that…”
May 5, 2025
Moore: Deciding which founders to pursue is the limiting factor in venture
“The limiting factor is really who do you choose to do that work with, right? You cannot do it with 20 different companies at once. And so there is this element of taste and picking that goes into that that I think you actually have to take very, very seriously…”
May 5, 2025 neutral
May 5, 2025 bullish
May 5, 2025 neutral
Moore: VC carry vests just like startup equity during partner departures
“You can think of carry similar to the way a startup employee vests equity, right? So they, they're given an equity grant. That equity grant vests over some time period over multiple years. You can think of venture carry as similar. And so the reason for that, …”
May 5, 2025 bullish
Moore: Massive valuations for OpenAI and Anthropic can still generate fund-level multiples
“And so when you look at investment like open AI at thirty billion or anthropic at sixty billion, you know, I can tell you these are opportunities that I personally believe have the upside to generate multiples versus say IRR.”
May 5, 2025 positive
Moore invested in an unannounced AI app startup before leaving Kleiner Perkins
“There's a recent investment that I made before leaving Kleiner Perkins that of course I'm really excited about. And it hasn't been announced yet, so I can't name the name of the company, but I think it does speak to this, which is this company is building in, …”