Everett Randle is a General Partner @ Benchmark, one of the best funds in venture capital. In their latest fund, they have Mercor, Sierra, Firework, Legora and Langchain. To put this in multiples on invested capital, that is a 60x, two 30x and two 20x. Before Benchmark, Ev was a Partner at Kleiner Perkins and before Kleiner, Ev was an investor at Founders Fund and Bond.
Rory O’Driscoll is a General Partner @ Scale where he has led investments in category leaders such as Bill.com (BILL), Box (BOX), DocuSign (DOCU), and WalkMe (WKME), among others.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:15 SpaceX’s Record-Breaking IPO & Elon’s $1 Trillion Day
03:57 What Is a Gamma Squeeze and Why It Matters for SpaceX Stock
09:12 Elon’s Long-Dated Call Option Playbook: From Tesla to SpaceX
12:01 How Musk Solved His Compute Problem Twice
20:27 Anthropic’s Claude Fable Banned by the Government
29:11 Does the Export Restriction Act Even Make Sense?
33:12 Why Benchmarks Are the Wrong Way to Think About Models
38:09 Will Anthropic IPO This Year?
56:00 Wix Slashes Guidance & Cuts 1,000 Jobs
58:24 SaaS Winners vs Losers: The Good/Bad AI Framework
1:08:21 Why Hedge Funds Are Dumping SaaS for Semiconductors
1:11:20 Adobe Beats, Raises, and Still Crashes as AI Fears Intensify
1:16:47 Standard Bots’ $200M Raise
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