The Epitome of Anti-Consensus Investing

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Sam Wong is a general partner at Blackbird Ventures. He argues that investing in Australia, New Zealand over the last decade has been "the epitome of anti consensus investing" Australian and Kiwi companies have built enterprise value of over 126 billion since 1990s. Most people don't know there's economic activity happening in these little islands in the Pacific.

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VenturusAI founder Emanuel Ciciu joins Jason as he dives into the origin story of his new startup before talking about building vertical AI solutions (1:30). Then Blackbird VC's Samantha Wong gives a presentation at Angel Summit about identifying soon-to-explode startup markets (41:53).

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(10:23) The true cost of building on top of a LLM

(12:56) Building vertical AI solutions

(18:15) VenturusAI demo

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(24:42) VenturusAI path to 100 customers

(29:51) Next steps for VenturusAI

(35:40) Jason places a bet