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Hot take: To get a turbocharged AI company funded these days, you need: 1) A team with the right pedigree (HYPS / MIT / Berkeley / etc. Ph.D -> OpenAI / FAANG
by TrackerFF 3y ago
Hot take: To get a turbocharged AI company funded these days, you need:
1) A team with the right pedigree (HYPS / MIT / Berkeley / etc. Ph.D -> OpenAI / FAANG ML/AI research group)
2) The right VC and industry network.
3) A product that will scale to hundreds of millions / billions of users.
There are plenty of ridiculously talented ML/AI researchers and engineers out there, that unfortunately lack the "correct" educational and professional background. They have cool product ideas, but lack the "billion user" scale.
Those are the startups that get hit with peanuts, or simply don't get funded. While the "pro athletes" of the ML/AI world get billion dollar valuations for some cookie-cutter LLM, before they have a product at hand.