Bucky Moore @ Lightspeed Venture Partners: Why You Cannot Do VC If You Do Not Do Pre-Seed
80Bucky Moore is a Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners, announced exclusively in the show today on 20VC. Prior to Lightspeed, Bucky spent an incredibly successful 7 years at Kleiner Perkins working with Mamoon Hamid to build one of the most successful early stage firms of the last decade. Bucky has made investments in the likes of Prisma, Netlify, Browserbase and more.
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In Today’s Episode We Discuss:
00:00 Intro
00:56 Big News: Joining Lightspeed Venture Partners
01:44 Why Mega Platforms Will Win the Next 10 Years of VC
06:17 Are Foundation Model Companies Good Venture Investments
13:37 What Applications Will Model Providers Buy/Build? What Will They Not?
15:03 How to Approach Price Sensitivity in a World of AI
16:58 Why is it BS to do Market Sizing When Making Investments in AI
33:17 Is the Future of VC Domain Specialization
38:38 How to Know What Company Wins in Super Competitive Markets
41:33 Why Every Firm Has to do Pre-Seed To Win in VC Today?
45:27 The Risks of Multi-Stage Investing: Is Signalling Risk Real?
58:39 Quick-Fire Round: Lessons from Mamoon, Fave CEO, Next 10 Years
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