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Clark: Only two venture firms gave OpenAI a term sheet in early 2023
“And so when we invested in open AI in that round, I think we were one of two firms that gave the company a term sheet.”
Clark: Thrive Capital backs non-invasive neurotech startup Nudge
“Also investors in Nudge, like you mentioned, Jeremy, who used to help run engineering at Neuralink and Fred Ursum, who was one of the co-founders of Coinbase, who are working on these very unique missions.”
Clark: Thrive's original OpenAI memo made no mention of ChatGPT
“We looked at our original investment memo. There was no mention of ChatGT in there.”
Clark: Thrive Capital led the seed round for Mesh Optical
“Mesh is a pair of founders from SpaceX named Travis and Cameron, who I actually knew back from college and then went to work on the Starlink photonics team. So the team that uses lasers in space to pass data from one satellite to another to give us internet. A…”
Clark: Thrive Capital invested in Cursor after a yearlong pursuit
“Myself and my partner, Miles spent the next year trying to see how we could ultimately partner with them. And fast forward to May of 20, 24, we finally convinced them that we were the right sorts of people to bring onto the cap table.”
Clark: Thrive received a GPT-4 demo in November 2022
“We actually got a demo of GBT-IV in November of twenty-twenty-two before it was publicly released in March, and it was one of the most astounding pieces of technology we'd ever seen.”