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Miller: Top-quartile late-stage venture returns will soon match early-stage returns
“The returns in the private market at the late stage are actually going to start matching the returns at the early stage. If you look at top quartile performance of early stage funds versus late stage funds, I think they're going to be pretty close to each othe…”
Miller: Accel moved slowly on AI apps due to foundation model risks
“We were admittedly slower than our peers on the application layer for AI because we were very worried about how fickle they were when the wakes of the models were getting wider and wider, and we spent a lot of time in infrastructure, and we're continuing to sp…”
Miller: Monthly AI token spend will go well above $500M
“I'm very bullish that we're going to go well above that.”
Miller: VCs making founders' funding rounds about themselves is 'cringeworthy'
“I mean, we always, I think we always kind of looked at the social media posts about a founder raising around and a VC making about themselves as like pretty cringeworth. Like, don't throw your shoulder out patting yourself on the back type of situation.”
Miller predicts AI agents will exponentially increase compute demand for inference
“Agents start using inference in an exponential way. The demand curve goes way up for what we, what we're going to need from an inference perspective.”
Miller: Full-stack vertical integration creates an edge in delivering AI inference
“When you control capacity by owning the data centers and the GPUs, and you control the software, you're in an advantageous position to be able to meet the moment and deliver inference for a market that, you know, we fundamentally believe is going to grow expon…”
Miller: Accel Is Investing in Ex-xAI Inference Startup Radix Arc
“We are investing in pure play inference software providers like Ying and the team at Radix Arc that just came out of XAI. They're the inference team there.”
Miller: Token infrastructure forecasts will consistently be revised upward
“I think it's going to be just like every underestimated infrastructure forecast. We're going to spend X and we always spend X plus some multiple of that every single quarter. Everyone revises up. I think you're going to see revisions up on tokens for sure.”
Miller: Being the first institutional investor was Accel's religion historically
“Up until about five to seven years ago, it was almost a religion here to be the first institutional investor into a company. And as a result, you're almost organizationally introverted. You're spending your time going and finding something that someone hasn't …”