Founders and funders are often not aligned calling this the Funder/ Founder mismatch. Oliver emphasizes the need to be transparent as founder-friendly investors and look at the equation of funding and valuations as runway funding towards a milestone allowing you to raise again or exit.
While AI saw unprecedented investment in 2022 with $123 billion poured into tech startups, that number halved to $66 billion in 2023. What’s even more striking is that over $40 billion of that went to just five companies in the large language model space. The future of AI investments lies in balancing power with purpose—ensuring that transformative technologies are deployed...
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