This feature from The Guardian unravels the science behind Cambridge Analytica’s mission to transform surveys and Facebook data into a political messaging weapon. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.
Sramana Mitra: Is domain knowledge a big part of your process? Dave Hornik: It’s a part. There are two founders in a company called WePay. I wrote a blog post on Venture Blog about this. It talked about getting credibility if you have none. If you are a 20-year-old who’s building a business in a
Sramana Mitra: Let me ask you a question in what you’re seeing. I’m completely with you and I’ve written extensively on this topic. The opportunity in AI is in applied AI. The unfair advantage is in the hands of people who have really deep domain knowledge in a particular domain where you apply the stack
Paroon Chadha: If one has to learn a business, you’d rather start out from where your foundation is good. Raising capital and accelerating based on your balance sheet is a thing you can do anytime. If you have a solid core business, it’ll happen. The reverse of that is not possible. If you fund your
Sramana Mitra: Let me turn the question around. If somebody came to you with an idea, give us some insight into your process of how you analyze and frame the idea. We can do this for some of your investments that have turned out really well but when they came to you, that was not
Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Greg Sands, Costanoa Ventures was recorded in December 2017. Greg Sands, Founder and Managing Director at Costanoa Ventures shares his investment focus. Sramana Mitra: Tell us about your investing focus. How big is the
Sramana Mitra: This was 150 users through that credit union customer? Paroon Chadha: Yes. Sramana Mitra: You had one anchor customer and you had a software that was receiving feedback from the beginning. Paroon Chadha: Chris was writing code, and I was out selling. We didn’t fear anything at that time. I wish I could
Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Dave Hornik, August Capital was recorded in December 2014. Dave Hornik, General Partner, August Capital, as some of you may know, shocked the industry years ago by being the first VC to start blogging.