Redwoods Island It's my three-year anniversary as a venture capitalist, since 2023. To date, we've invested in approximately 19 AI startups (and several more with smaller checks) poised to become Blitzscalers.…
My TED AI Talk Is Live: The Human Secret Behind the AI BoomThe video from my closing keynote at TEDAI San Francisco 2025 just dropped on TED.com. It is 7.5 minutes.…
Coding is not the hard part; it's what comes next So many founders get it wrong. Coding is not the hard part. As a VC, I review hundreds of AI pitches from founder a month and I pass up most, why?…
? Llama Lounge 24 was hosted at Google DeepMind's Googleplex in the heart of Silicon Valley, with Peter Danenberg and Justin Woo making it happen on the Google side.…
The tech industry has moved through distinct waves over the past few decades. DotCom enabled information, search, and ecommerce. Web2 created peer knowledge and social networks. The sharing economy digitized services through mobile and on-demand models.…
We completed the first Llama Lounge Agentic Hackathon Over 150 developers participated, forming roughly 25 teams that built real agentic systems in two-days.…
Llama Lounge 22 took place on January 22, 2026 at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in downtown San Francisco. The event brought together hundreds of AI founders, dozens of venture capitalists, and dozens of corporate AI buyers.…
My 2026 Goals I believe in stating your goals! Manifest. Where I’m focused in 2026: Find, fund, and fuel (help) AI startups with strong network effects & viral effects as a VC Lead several Llama Lounge events in SF Bay Area, featuring AI startups Keynote…
AROW: Agentic Robotics Orchestration Workflows As a speaker, I’ve presented this at public events a handful of times, and will increase this as this market evolves, maybe even hosting a few events on the topic. As an investor.…
Warning: This is a spoiler—the video hasn’t been published yet. Here's the Google slides, however, the talking points are in the lower speaker section, which may be difficult to follow.…
Llama Lounge 21 at Capgemini & Techcrunch Disrupt Partner Another sold-out Llama Lounge #21 — we turned away more than 900 applicants due to fire code capacity.…
Services Firms falling behind on Enterprise AI Mindset shift: Who are you competing with? Surprise! It's not your traditional competitor, it's your customer that uses AI.…
