Victor Lazarte is a General Partner @ Benchmark, one of the mot renowned venture firms in the world. At Benchmark, Victor has led deals into the likes of HeyGen and Mercor. As an angel, he was the first investor and board member of Brex, and as a Founder he scaled Wildlife Studios, bootstrapping into the largest gaming company in LatAm, with about 4 billion downloads.
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In Today’s Episode We Discuss:
00:00 Intro
01:03 Lessons Scaling Wildlife Studios to 4BN Downloads
04:14 Why Predicting the Future is Wrong When Starting a Company
08:30 Three Different Categories of Company in an AI World: Who Wins & Loses?
18:38 Two Traits That All the Best Founders Have?
19:27 Why You Should Always Ask What a Founder Does in Their Free Time?
23:22 Why If You Start a Company in SF You are 1,000x More Likely to be Successful?
28:02 Why Spreadsheet SaaS Investing is Dead
30:14 Why Knowledge Work Will Be Destroyed and What Happens Then?
39:41 Why Replacing Humans is the Most Exciting Opportunity in AI
43:44 China vs. US: The AI Race
49:44 Why All Students Today Should Study Computer Science
01:05:22 Why Portfolio Construction is BS
01:07:48 Quick-Fire Round
01:08:15 What Makes Peter Fenton One of the Best Ever
01:09:48 Why Duolingo Will Be One of the Most Valuable Companies in the World
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