#1280 Peter Berg | Microsoft’s VC on Artificial Intelligence & Bitcoin
The Pomp Podcast
Anthony Pompliano
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Peter Berg is a Managing Partner at M12, Microsoft’s venture capital arm. He leads the fund’s vertical SaaS invests & work. Peter is also a two-time founder, and most recently ran strategy & business development for Very Good Security. In this conversation, we talk about corporate venture capital, success stories for M12 & his career, artificial intelligence, recent OpenAI news, and advice for founders & entrepreneurs.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Many of you know me as Pomp. You're listening to the Pomp |
| 0:07.7 | podcast, which is my effort to find the most interesting people in the world and sit with them for hours while I ask questions in an effort to learn. So it would mean the world to me if you would subscribe to the show on your favorite audio platform, watch episodes on YouTube, |
| 0:21.1 | and tell your friends and family about the podcast. My goal is to help millions learn from the |
| 0:26.5 | world's most interesting people. So let's get in to today's episode. Peter Berg is a managing |
| 0:32.1 | partner at M12, Microsoft's venture capital arm. There he leads leads the fund's vertical SaaS investments in work. |
| 0:39.1 | He previously is a two-time founder, and he most recently ran strategy and business development |
| 0:43.1 | for very good security. |
| 0:44.6 | And prior to that role, Peter also spent six years leading Visa Ventures, where he directed |
| 0:48.9 | a team of investment and portfolio development professionals focused on investments in |
| 0:52.7 | the fintech ecosystem. |
| 0:55.2 | In this conversation, we talk about corporate venture capital, what many of the success stories are for M12 and Peter's |
| 0:59.6 | career, how they're thinking about artificial intelligence, especially with all of the recent |
| 1:03.7 | Open AI news, and what exactly founders and entrepreneurs should be thinking about when approaching |
| 1:08.5 | a firm like M12 and how to work with corporate |
| 1:11.0 | venture capital to your advantage. I really enjoyed this conversation with Peter, |
| 1:14.5 | and I think you guys will find this incredibly valuable. So I'm excited for you all to listen to my |
| 1:18.0 | conversation with Peter Berg. Anthony Pompliano runs pomp investments. All views of him |
| 1:24.1 | and the guests on his podcast are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions |
| 1:28.4 | of pomp investments. You should not treat any opinion expressed by pomp or his guest as a |
| 1:33.4 | specific inducement to make a particular investment or follow a particular strategy, but only |
| 1:38.1 | as an expression of his personal opinion. This podcast is for informational purposes only. |
| 1:44.0 | This episode is brought to you by Arodine. There are a brand new startup led by a number of Silicon Valley legends who just raised $81 million to build the future of internet infrastructure. |
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