Itay Rotem
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We're proud to announce @unconvAI a bit more publicly! We're in unprecedented times...AI has exponential demand but is limited by (linear) energy build-outs. At Unconventional we're aiming to use every watt more effectively; we're doing it by going to first principles on how to build an intelligence substrate. Biology scale efficiency in 20 years!

The moment you take too much capital, your path as GP is preordained & optionality disappears. @micahjay1 (@fcollective) thinks the industry has lost the plot, trading AUM + mgmt fees for returns. His take: "That's a really hard way to make💰" 🆕Origins w @Beezer232 & @nchirls👇

New data on Seed & Series A: how many deals are getting done & at what check size👇 Seed: ~90% of priced Seed rounds are < $20M, where dedicated-stage funds hold the advantage. >$20M: Though just a tiny fraction of the mkt, 70% of priced Seed rounds include mega-fund lead or co-lead.







Is it too much to ask that @WSJ reporters who cover finance actually understand the asset classes they purport to report on? @roelofbotha and @sequoia are world class investors who have generated amazing returns for their LPs. VC is not a downside minimization asset class, but an unlimited upside capture one.










