Dexter Dake
188 posts

Dexter Dake
@dexterdake
Helping founders cut noise and position to grow. Decade alongside KP, Insight, Redpoint, Meritech amongst others. Founding Partner @Dakotomy
Napa, CA Katılım Kasım 2014
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@jaredsuniverse Distribution is much harder in practice. 100x the competition with AI. Enterprises are rebuilding tools in-house. VPs and CSuites are bombarded from staff and external product pitches.
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@karomancer It’s because the primary driver of interaction is to show off meaningless badges to feel accomplished.
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@hopes_revenge Don’t let your human chest pain get in the way of AIs vision. Fall back in line.
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@yashhq_22 If you can get distribution, you litteraly do not need a VC for 80-90% of SaaS AI startups.
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@corbin_braun As if it’s going to stop me. I’m going to cancel. No chance of me coming back now.
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@brettcalhounn Possibly the only path if you come from nothing with no one behind you.
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@big_duca Don’t let your human get in the way of AIs vision. Fall back in line.
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@credistick Woof. Sometimes I feel like we help founders do this when constructing their investor deck narratives. I always feel weird when they get funded.
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The phenomenon of startups tailoring their ideas to VC expectations, becoming more “legible to capital”, was studied in this paper by Xiyue Li.
The result is lower quality, less innovative companies.

Jay Kapoor@JayKapoorNYC
Venture capital used to be about finding the hidden gems. Now it’s entirely about backing the sure thing. Lesson if you’re raising is that if you’re a hidden gem, start to behave like a sure thing. Else you will stay hidden.
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@Web3Kristel Had a friend hire one to keep her boyfriend from moving across the state. Totally worked.
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