Sramana Mitra: Interesting. There is a completely opposite trend, but it’s kind of similar. Y Combinator put out the types of companies they’re looking for a few months ago. One of the types of companies is full stack AI.
>>>Sramana Mitra: If you were to highlight some themes that you’re seeing in the deal flow right now, what are some of the trends that you’re seeing?
>>>Ray Wu, Managing Partner at Alumni Ventures AI Fund, discusses the fund’s investment thesis.
>>>Sramana Mitra: I think proprietary domain knowledge is going to be the driving factor, and you’re focusing on something where the underpinning of your investment thesis is proprietary domain knowledge. You cannot do this without proprietary domain knowledge.
>>>Sramana Mitra: You are investing in risk and data-driven risk products. This domain requires people who are working in some domain-specific use cases around all that. Otherwise, you don’t really have insights into the problems to solve, right?
>>>Sramana Mitra: Okay. And what is the investment thesis of Overlook Ventures?
>>>Amir Kabir, Founding Partner at Overlook Ventures, discusses his new firm’s investment Thesis around Risk. In addition, we had a great discussion on what younger aspiring entrepreneurs should do: jump into entrepreneurship right away, or learn a domain in a job.
>>>Sramana Mitra: To your point about accessibility, you talked about the developed world that lacks people who can do certain things, and enabling them to do those things with AI or robots. That is one angle.
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