Mike Vernal
5 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 26, 2025 by Mike Vernal · across every show →
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Apr 26, 2025 positive
Vernal made early angel investments in Notion, Wealthfront, and Human Interest
“I probably made like seven or eight. One of them was Notion, which is probably the best of the bunch, but like Wealthfront, it was like Notion and Wealthfront and this company called Human interest, which is like a foreign provider and a couple others.”
Apr 26, 2025 bullish
Apr 26, 2025 positive
Apr 26, 2025
AI startups must either advance frontier research or obsess over customer needs
“If you're going to build an interesting company, I think you either have to attack it from, ah, you have the handful of researchers that can literally push the state of the art forward, which is like maybe eight organizations in the world, or You know and unde…”
Apr 26, 2025 negative
Blocking Big Tech acquisitions effectively kills venture funding for consumer startups
“Consumer has the, this property that like very, very, very few things are going to work, but if it works really big, but if it doesn't work, it's often like really talented entrepreneurial founders that can then either like
Take what they've built to a larger…”