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The Next 3 Years Will Deliver 30 Years of Innovation | John Lin - E725
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The next three years should deliver what the last thirty did. That is John Lin's argument, and it is why he thinks the ground under founders has shifted. John Lin is the Founding Partner of Linea Ventures. Previously, he helped start F-Prime Capital's west coast tech practice and was also a Principal at Trinity Ventures. He has invested in 50+ companies, including Numeral, Squire, Branch, Side, Weights & Biases, Triumph and You.com. Prior to that he led Product and Engineering at Roomi and worked at McKinsey and Yelp. John graduated with degrees in Business and...
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I read a stat online recently that said one in five to one in seven companies actually reached that series A mark from the seed round. I always ask each one of my founders, what makes you the best person in the world to do this and to solve this problem? Hey, John. Thank you for taking the time to do this fireside chat as the founding partner of
V3D that is joining us from San Francisco. We'll be taking this time to learn about your decade investing across AI, enterprise software, SaaS, and FinTech, and we'll be learning more about what today's founder and investor attention is concentrating today, what areas are becoming crowded, and how investors are thinking about defensibility as the AI landscape continues to
evolve. So John, could you introduce yourself? Yeah, hey, I'm John. I was a former Berkeley alum as well. I graduated in 2011 with dual degrees in computer science and business, so excited to speak to everyone here. Since then, I've been an entrepreneur, I worked as a consultant, I've led product and engineering, and for the last 10 years, I've been an angel investor
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