Ken Hirsch
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- Goldman Sachs35 min
‘The Technology Opportunity of Our Lifetimes’: Bessemer's Byron Deeter
Goldman Sachs co-chairman Ken Hirsch interviews Bessemer Venture Partners partner Byron Dieter regarding the firm's "empowerment" investment strategy and its aggressive $10 billion allocation toward AI infrastructure and application sectors. Dieter emphasizes prioritizing elite founding teams over ideas while leveraging a platform of 150+ IPOs to syndicate risk, a shift driven by the predicted expansion of Total Addressable Markets from infrastructure to "answer engine" outcomes. The discussion further highlights Bessemer's evolution into a full-service operational support model, exemplified by founder well-being initiatives like STRIVE and a strategic focus on avoiding "crimes of omission" in high-growth markets.
- Goldman Sachs57 min
Finding the Right Problems: How Sutter Hill Ventures’ Mike Speiser Creates Great Companies
Sutter Hill Ventures, led by Managing Director Mike Spicer, operates as a product studio employing over 100 engineers and researchers to directly build portfolio companies like Snowflake, NVIDIA, and Astera Labs rather than acting as a traditional passive investor. The firm utilizes an evergreen fund structure that allows its founders to personally co-invest 25% of all capital while focusing on technical problem-solving in emerging sectors such as generative AI through internal projects REV and Bench. By prioritizing intellectual honesty and rapid iteration cycles, the Palo Alto-based organization aims to achieve massive efficiency gains and solve complex scientific challenges in fields ranging from database architecture to human longevity.
- Goldman Sachs1h 0m
How Sequoia Capital’s Roelof Botha is forging the future
Roloff Bota of Sequoia Capital outlines the firm's enduring investment philosophy, which relies on a small, high-integrity team to back founder-problem fit through rigorous processes like anonymous voting and pre-mortems. The discussion highlights how Sequoia navigates a contracting VC market and evolving AI landscape by prioritizing infrastructure software over capital-intensive foundation models while introducing a permanent fund structure to align long-term incentives. Ultimately, the event details how the firm balances historical underdog mentalities with modern behavioral economics to sustain 100x to 500x returns despite a 50% failure rate in its portfolio.