Samir Kaji

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"Jeff's been involved in just about everything that's important — Google Brain, TensorFlow, TPUs."

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"Rocket Lab — we were the first investors. We put in I think $5 million for a third of the company. It was a company in New Zealand. No one was paying attention to it. And we owned 28% of the company when it went public and the company is now worth I don't know 30, 40 billion dollars."

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"What Jeff and his team are doing — they're taking research and figuring out if you run this experiment, what do we think the outcome is? And based on that outcome, let's run thousands or millions of other parallel experiments to try to get to an answer. It could be what's a new material for magnets for a fusion reactor, what are new materials for a solar cell to make it more efficient, could be for batteries, could be for scientific research."

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"Obviously Sequoia, everyone knows, has a long-only fund, and then there's crossover funds that do it, but it's just a different skill set honestly."

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"I actually started my career in '99. I was at Silicon Valley Bank — I was at SVB — and I was lending into companies back then."