@davidsenra: Groq Founder @JonathanRoss321 explains why all the West Coast VCs missed on investing in Groq: “Typical West Coast VCs …
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Groq founder Jonathan Ross discusses how West Coast VCs missed investing in Groq due to herd mentality, contrasting with East Coast VCs who do independent analysis. The conversation also covers Groq's $20 billion partnership with NVIDIA.
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Groq Founder @JonathanRoss321 explains why all the West Coast VCs missed on investing in Groq:
“Typical West Coast VCs are more like lemmings. Ttypical East Coast VCs all think that they’re smarter than each other.”
“So when you try and raise from the West Coast, if one VC puts money in, all the others want to put money in.”
“In New York, one VC investing means nothing. They’re going to run their own analysis. They do not care what other VCs are doing.”
“The flip of that is, if you’re on the West Coast and one VC passes, they’re going to go tell every other VC, and like lemmings, they’re all going to pass as well.”
“All the VCs on the West Coast didn’t want to invest in us. We had very few of the typical VCs invest in us at the end. We had a bunch of crossover funds from the East Coast investing.”
David Senra (@davidsenra): A conversation with @JonathanRoss321, founder of @GroqInc. This is the first podcast that Jonathan talks about his $20 billion partnership with NVIDIA.
In this conversation, we talk about his decade building Groq: why West Coast VCs kept passing on the company, how fast Jensen
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