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Niko Bonatsos

6 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 29, 2025 by Niko Bonatsos · across every show →

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Aug 29, 2025 neutral
Insight
Bonatsos: Early-stage VCs should back young founder intelligence over sectors
“So honestly, I wouldn't care less about the sector. For me, it's like, if you're as smart as you sound at like, 1619, 23, 25, how much smarter can you be in five years? Because the idea will change, the product will change, the market will evolve. And what do …”
Niko Bonatsos Aug 29, 2025 ▶ 12:46 Inside Silicon Valley’s VC Playbook | WTF is Venture Capital? - 2025 Edition | Ep. 24 · Nikhil Kamath
Aug 29, 2025 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Bonatsos: 8% to 10% of Men on Dating Apps Get 80% of Dates
“So something like eight to 10% of the guys get 80% of the dates.”
Niko Bonatsos Aug 29, 2025 ▶ 1:02:25 Inside Silicon Valley’s VC Playbook | WTF is Venture Capital? - 2025 Edition | Ep. 24 · Nikhil Kamath
Aug 29, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Bonatsos: VCs should probably pass on new US legal tech Series A startups
“So if someone is starting now a new legal tech company in series A, probably you would say no to, you know, in the U.S. It's just so busy.”
Niko Bonatsos Aug 29, 2025 ▶ 2:31:17 Inside Silicon Valley’s VC Playbook | WTF is Venture Capital? - 2025 Edition | Ep. 24 · Nikhil Kamath
Aug 29, 2025 positive
Insight
Bonatsos: Founding engineers taking low equity are the foundation of VC
“Our founders wouldn't do well if there's like, you know, unique class of people, founding engineers or founding talent that show up. A day after your company gets funded or get started, then they get like one 30th of the equity that you get. God bless those pe…”
Niko Bonatsos Aug 29, 2025 ▶ 2:51:03 Inside Silicon Valley’s VC Playbook | WTF is Venture Capital? - 2025 Edition | Ep. 24 · Nikhil Kamath
Aug 29, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Bonatsos: Policy Cannot Keep Up with AI's Rapid Development Pace
“Policy cannot catch up. Like the hardest thing, honestly, that we face right now is even if you're like a PhD in AI working for one of the foundation model companies, you can't keep up with the pace.”
Niko Bonatsos Aug 29, 2025 ▶ 45:27 Inside Silicon Valley’s VC Playbook | WTF is Venture Capital? - 2025 Edition | Ep. 24 · Nikhil Kamath
Aug 29, 2025 bearish
Disclosure
Bonatsos: US-based venture investors should avoid investing in China
“In today's universe, I would avoid, you know, like doing anything in China as somebody who is U.S. Based. That's not a controversial statement.”
Niko Bonatsos Aug 29, 2025 ▶ 23:04 Inside Silicon Valley’s VC Playbook | WTF is Venture Capital? - 2025 Edition | Ep. 24 · Nikhil Kamath
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