Hacking Meta's AR glasses, a shakeup at Initialized, and the best startups of the decade | E2021
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 7 October 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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(21:27) AR technology trends, practicality, and ethical considerations
(26:10) AI advancements, deepfakes, and AR in healthcare
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(31:06) Insights on young founders and the podcast's live format evolution
(31:58) Venture capital trends and Initialize Capital's restructuring
(39:28) Founders Fund and CRV developments, returning capital to LPs
(42:02) Analysis of scale insurgents and successful startup unicorns
(46:39) Secondary market opportunities and fund exit strategies
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| 0:00.0 | getting back to our discussion of where the industry is, I think we are at the turning point right now because private equity is coming in and trying to buy positions. |
| 0:10.0 | We had somebody offered to buy one of our positions in our first fund |
| 0:14.4 | at some discount to the last round which was only 20%. |
| 0:18.8 | Now most of the discounts I've been seeing have been in the 50%, 75%, just bottom feeders. But this one, if we sold our |
| 0:26.7 | position in this fund, that would return 1.5X the fund. We really believe in this company, |
| 0:32.1 | but that fund's already at 1.2 x, I think, 1.1 x. |
| 0:38.0 | So we add 1.5 to it. |
| 0:40.0 | Now we've got a 2.6 or 7 X fund with still some holdings in it. |
| 0:45.6 | Maybe this is something we should consider for our LPs. |
| 0:49.4 | Would be great to get that firm to, you know, |
| 0:51.5 | DPI actually returned, not on on paper because that one on paper was kind of |
| 0:56.2 | around 4.95 x so my job is to get those two numbers to you you know, meet as best I can. I haven't had to think about an exit for a long time. |
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