The AI Boom Will Create Enormous Roadkill: Who Wins & Loses? | David Frankel

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Pro rata rights act like a call option against entrepreneurs, requiring accommodation in every future round and potentially making fundraising harder.
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A 5% stake in a median $2.6 billion company can return an entire venture fund.
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Founder-partner alchemy is extraordinarily rare. One investor saw it only four or five times across a career.
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Mega-funds treating investments as call options can leave companies without an internal champion or follow-on capital when that investor leaves.
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For roughly 95% of venture-backed companies, the mandate for further funding disappears as funds prioritize larger winners.
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Fund size is an alignment decision: bigger funds make meaningful cash distributions harder, so ask what the extra scale is for.
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The 10x filter is brutal: if the team cannot complete that thought, the investment fails.
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Within five to ten years, today's children may not need to drive if driverless cars become normal.
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Investment frameworks prevent mistakes, but valuation used as an automatic rejection rule can create major misses.
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Recruiting can consume 30–40% of a CEO’s time. Jeff Bezos reportedly said 50% of his time went to putting people in seats.
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A 5% stake in a $2.6 billion company returns roughly a fund, while a $500 million outcome can still matter enormously.
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Chinese open-source AI could disrupt leading American companies before they establish durable incumbency.
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Some highly valued private companies trade above their latest financing price when large investors miss pro rata allocations.
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Advanced technology is dramatically more capital-intensive than prior technology, making funding access a strategic constraint.
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TVPI reflects paper value. DPI reflects proceeds actually distributed to investors.
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Founders who have lived inside an industry since childhood see problems, workflows, and opportunities outsiders miss.
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A venture investment should plausibly become massive, not merely deliver a respectable multiple.
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An investor’s highest-value work is often finding exceptional, intensely focused founders, not perfecting financial engineering.
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A consistent investment framework enables rapid decisions and keeps missed winners from rewriting portfolio construction rules.
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A respected, committed small fund can serve as an insurance policy for a company at relatively low cost.
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Evaluate opportunity, market, and founders first. Valuation comes last and is rarely comfortable.

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