Navin Chaddha, Managing Partner at Mayfield Fund, discusses how early-stage startup entry valuations have escalated compared to previous technology cycles.
“Clearly from where we were investing in the cloud era or the mobile era, valuations are dramatically up.”
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“And in the AI era, overall, it's a hundred X opportunity. I've been lucky to be involved in the web era, the mobile, the cloud, the social, the not so good eras. And then the AI, I think those eras were a 10 X opportunity. This is a hundred X opportunity. So t…”
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“Let's look at vibe coding. Companies are doing a hundred million in revenue, two hundred million in revenues. They're going to be doing ten billion in revenues. We'll blink and that's what they will be.”
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Chaddha: Only 1% to 3% of hyped AI startups will survive
“We could go from all these hyped up companies. Some will keep growing, but maybe that will be one percent, two percent, three percent of the hype companies. But a lot of them are making their lives really, really hard.”
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“I think it's going to be 90% in a year.”
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Chaddha: Non-AI startups will take 10x longer to raise capital
“Companies are going to take 10 X the time to raise money if they are not an AI native company.”
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