Karnjanaprakorn: Venture funding will concentrate heavily into hard tech problems
Michael Karnjanaprakorn · $1M Startup Trends For 2024, With Michael Karnjanaprakorn · Jan 11, 2024 · at 16:30
Michael Karnjanaprakorn (former CEO of Skillshare) discusses how venture capital allocation is shifting toward hard tech and AI.
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“With the rise of AI and hard tech, I think a lot of funding will go towards really hard tech problems. And then There'll be this kind of like middle zone for everything else.”
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