Hussein Kanji

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"We did one in the AI space for material science called CUSP AI. We were the inception check — we wrote a $10 million check at what at the time felt like a crazy number. It's not a crazy number in hindsight and it's worth 2.6 billion. Kleiner just marked it up, two years in, almost a fund returner for our fund three."

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"Our sister company to that in many ways is the same type of thing but a drug discovery company — AI for biology called pepone.com. The AI, this stuff really works. We have a drug against prostate cancer that might actually stop prostate cancer almost entirely, generated by a computer, and we're going into clinical trials. That to me is the one that's probably going to generate a ton of DPI for us."

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"Why would Stripe go public ever? They have unlimited capital."

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"If you're the plumbing system for the payments and you're leaning into AI, knowing where the spend is actually happening, how these models — it's actually strategic. The why I think we're going to figure out probably five years from now."

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"Kurt Vonnegut wrote about this stuff. Player Piano, it's like the first book."

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"Cory Doctorow wrote about this stuff. Not in his book, it was Walk Away. It's an old idea."