Executive summary: VC Mike Maples Jr. makes an extended analogy between Godzilla and ambitious startups that are challenging incumbent giants by using new techn

Executive summary: VC Mike Maples Jr. makes an extended analogy between Godzilla and ambitious startups that are challenging incumbent giants by using new technologies. Around the 14-minute mark, he starts talking about "Hatching a Thunder Lizard"; this is the most substantive part of the talk. To the HN audience, this solid 30-minute talk is valuable primarily as an indication of what top VCs are looking for. In a nutshell: a huge potential market that no one else is tapping, either because of some inherent advantage you have (IP or unique expertise) or, more interestingly, because you're going against conventional wisdom.