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😅 if they really wanted us to convert to electric vehicles they would put alternators in every single electric vehicle so we don't have to charge them. But obviously they don't give a s*** about electric vehicles
I was definitely surprised when mygymbuddy ended up being B2B for the exact reason Nika mentioned, so I thought the problem framing feedback was great.
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#3 is saying: ESG is mandatory crap big companies have to do, so we can help them ensure and prove their employees are doing it and especially rewarding them for it
This is a great channel offering insight early founders like myself aren't always "lucky" to obtain/think about, and additionally I'd also like to propose (if not available already as Im new) the possibility of hosting online founders who aren't geographically at an advantage to pitch in-person
Thank you, and so glad we've reached you! We're getting a lot of requests from int'nl founders, so we're brainstorming in the background. We'd want to do it the right way, so... TBD!
So glad to hear it! I've thought for a long time now that the content out there was a combination of too old and too generic, and founders needed something new to chew on.
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Hey sherveen all your videos through yt summarising ai, and came up with the perfect structure for the pitch… wondering if you would be keen on doing a low production value version, for Tik tok?
Product market fit, is cruicial isn’t it… y combinator has the best angel investing list. And you can invest based on booking zoom calls with them, seeing who is the hungriest and which founder taking the y comb sales call is doing well and their habits.
Man also the algorithm can detect arthritis ….. what the fudge… we need a doctor on the panel , the amount of BS people talk on stage when it comes to medicine…. Ugh.
Also she doesn’t have CS background / PHD etc… how does a VC firm feel comfortable that she can do it?!? Do VCs need an MVP in the Korean American founders case as she has a finance degree not a medical or more importantly a background in JAX CUDA and NLP for training multimodal models.
Great video. Can I ask you SF vs New York, what’s the best place to build a startup and work with talent? I’m coming from Australia and have a medical degree and an exit under my belt. Also I find it weird that VCs don’t have more founders or ex founders. The person sitting with you in this video, wouldn’t VCs hire someone with startup experience and who’s done an exit. I feel you knowing that your vc backed and a founder, have a gut feeling of who’s gonna kill it. I feel the idea and grit , and sure the talent / track record…. tell all. The “grit” and also the idea, I find it hard that your compadre on the panel would struggle to measure. Much better to have a founder who’s done cleaning the office trash to training the LLM and pitching for their series C prior to punching out to an IPO. That realm of experience on the panel of sequoia would invest better for them? Am I wrong?
And how you secured VC funding. Also private funding vs VC funding, I feel VCs could sometimes work against you as they want their “partners” and pipelines to be used.
There are pros and cons to both, but I'm a big believer in New York in this next era of tech. A lot of great founders have moved here over the past 5-8 years, everyone benefits from the mix of industries (for inspiration, for a more dynamic social life), and startups built here tend to be more rugged in terms of thinking through monetization, GTM, etc. It's the best city on Earth. That said, there's a solid argument that more technical products with longer term R&D and engineering team needs do better in the talent-dense ecosystem of SF. RE: some of your other questions, will circle back!
Pulse is not an indicator of health... this is bizarre.. I do think the kid needed a clinical insight into what he was building and needs to a clinician / prefferably one that has managed a plethora of cases to help with the workflow of the app that the 18 yo wiz is building.
Doctors are researchers, infact they research the drugs out there and taylor it to their patients clinical presentations. that goes with psychotherapies they recommend as well. I disagree with oldmate's statement.
