My guests today are Bill Gurley and Michael Mauboussin. Bill is a General Partner at Benchmark, and Michael is the Head of Consilient Research for Counterpoint Global. While they are longtime friends with one another, I’d never heard them appear somewhere together so it was a real treat to be able to do this with the two of them. They are two of the leading minds in their fields, and we combined their decades of expertise into one wide-ranging conversation. We discuss the different kinds of increasing returns to scale, the issue of regulatory capture, AI, and hardware. Please enjoy this great conversation with Bill Gurley and Michael Mauboussin.

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Show Notes:

(00:00:00) Welcome to Invest Like the Best

(00:03:38) Dissecting the Dynamics of AI, LLMs, and Market Disruption

(00:05:06) The World of AI Investments and Market Trends

(00:08:13) Integration of New Technologies in Business

(00:15:27) The Power of Increasing Returns and Strategic Investments

(00:22:26) Unpacking the Role of Intangibles in Scaling and Innovation

(00:28:54) Transformative Potential of Open Source and Idea Recombination

(00:34:42) The Complex Landscape of Regulation and Innovation

(00:43:17) Today’s Venture Capital Ecosystem

(00:47:08) Impact of Fewer IPOs and Private Market Dynamics

(00:50:38) Capital Allocation in Zero Interest Rate Environments

(00:54:44) The Evolution of Venture Capital and High-Stakes Investment Games

(00:57:21) Exploring New Frontiers: AI, Energy, and Physical World Innovations

(01:01:14) The Power of Learning by Doing

(01:17:49) Working with Genius

(01:26:47) The Value of Teaching, Writing, and Sharing Knowledge

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