1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: Investor Gus Tai on VC Industry Size (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: You raised two points I want to elaborate on briefly, especially as we near the end of our time. Human nature, as you noted, is status-seeking. Until now, status in entrepreneurship has been associated with venture-funded startups. Venture-backed founders are often seen as higher status than bootstrapped entrepreneurs, and the media has historically

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: Investor Gus Tai on VC Industry Size (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Gus, that is a good segue into another class of venture capital firms in the market. Let’s set aside the 30 funds raising mega capital and doing mega deals.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: Investor Gus Tai on VC Industry Size (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: This leads to another part of the discussion. As lavishly funded companies emerge, a parallel phenomenon has accelerated this year: this is also the golden age of bootstrapped startups. People are accomplishing far more, far faster, with significantly fewer resources and less capital than ever before. We are seeing trends such as ultralight

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: Investor Gus Tai on VC Industry Size (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: One interesting point is that the peak occurs in 2021, which was the height of COVID. This was not a traditional boom time, yet the venture industry peaked in 2021 and 2022, during the pandemic. Gus Tai: I would also like to comment on the next slide, and then we can move into

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: Investor Gus Tai on VC Industry Size (Part 1)

Gus Tai is a veteran Venture Capitalist and a close friend. We discuss why the Venture Capital or VC industry size needs to shrink.

711th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Investor Gus Tai

Gus Tai is a veteran Venture Capitalist and a close friend. We discuss why the Venture Capital industry needs to shrink in size.

711th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable Recording

Why the VC Industry Must Shrink If you’re trying to understand what’s really happening in the VC industry, Sramana Mitra’s conversation with veteran investor Gus Tai is essential viewing. In this recorded session from the 1Mby1M Roundtable, they each share candid, contrarian insights on why the venture capital industry needs to shrink, what’s driving the

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AI Investor Forum: Gus Tai on AI in Healthcare (Part 8)

Sramana Mitra: What is going on in the thought process of the venture capital community vis-a-vis healthcare drug discovery and general AI in the healthcare and life sciences area? When the lean startup movement came about, SaaS was the dominant field in which VCs were investing for maybe even 15 years, the venture capital industry

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