Lee Hower @leehower
Co-founder & Partner NextView Ventures, previously LinkedIn co-founder and foot soldier in PayPal Mafia. Obsessed with the big picture. nextview.vc Boston / SF Joined March 2008-
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Which mega cap tech company will increase market cap the most in the next 10 years? Assume AI has a significant impact on the economy and society.
In last couple years FTC/DOJ antitrust regulators have blocked M&A across tech, airlines, luxury goods, steelmaking, and other industries. Not clear how even smallish deals can get done in this environment. cnbc.com/2024/04/22/ftc…
In the age of AI, data is not the moat. Data is the water that fills the moat. You still have to dig a deep moat.
8yr old made up a joke: “What did the sharp pencil say to the dull pencil?” [Me] “I don’t know” “You’re pointless”
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I was trying to help a friend today use common gen AI tools. Person knew all about them and had even experimented with at a demo installation they’d seen. But helpful reminder while awareness of AI is mainstream, usage is still comparatively niche
TIL the number of Americans paying Federal income tax increased >10X during WWII (1939-1945). Tax base was expanded dramatically to fund the war effort (1913 income tax was originally only very high earners) + employer level tax withholding was enacted during this time.
My inbox and Twitter feed are full of news stories how Tiger Global missed their fundraising target by >60%. They still closed a $2.2B fund, so if that’s failure pretty sure that’s failing upwards…
There are some very impressive demos of AI-enabled robots these days. But maybe we could put a smiley face sticker on ‘em or paint the robots a friendly color so they seem a little less “Terminator-y”?
Thanks @elonmusk for not only building a number of world changing companies, doing the impossible but for inspiring generations of builders to work on hard problems that matter and raising humanity’s collective ambition 🫶 (& for making time to fly the @navierboat!)🚀🚀🚀🚤🌊
This is a first in VC history. Most VC firms are focusing their strategies on a technology disruption after over a trillion dollars in value has already been gained by publicly cos pursuing the opportunity. #AI In massive technology shifts of other eras, the cumulative value…
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Our partner @traestephens is unrivaled in calling the defense tech wave in '08 And he captured all of the value, both by co-founding Anduril & investing in only the very best defense tech companies Incredibly honored to work alongside him & grateful he's on our board at Varda
@leehower Interesting that Apple and Amazon aren’t even in this race despite having existing “AI” (very big quotes) products already in market
@leehower Short term yes. Long term way less money to give to charity.
Joining the board at @cooperhewitt with a definite point of view about the design of technology cooperhewitt.org/2024/04/16/chr…
Surreal moment as an early-stage VC - one super early investment (Hashicorp) finally ends its run scooped up by IBM; and tonight Rubrik prices shares, which we were lucky to get via an early acquisition. Part luck, part poker!
In 2010, we launched our 1st fund at $1.6M. Today excited to announce our 6th seed fund with $220M in new capital—a 137x increase 😝 Our focus stays the exact same: leading pre-product-market fit seed rounds and accelerating founders from 0 to 1 🚀
Truly a significant moment in history DoD has selected a next-gen defense prime to be one of the primary vendors for autonomous fighter jet This is how we stay ahead of our near-peer adversaries
The @usairforce has selected Anduril to design, manufacture, and test production-representative Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA). In this era of great power competition, there is no time to waste on business as usual. We look forward to delivering CCAs on schedule, within…
So much of startup pain is self-inflicted: lack of focus, misaligned resource allocation, hesitation to make hard/unpopular decisions.
thank you to all of the founders who made this possible 🙏 excited and humbled to continue the journey
It is long and difficult, but I’d do @HubSpot all over again. Cc: @dharmesh
"We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy" is a surprisingly profound quote. When I ask people who've pulled off remarkable things, it's interesting how many confirm that they wouldn't have started if they'd know how long and…
Thrilled to lead the seed, series A & now Series D-2 investments in Ramp. Witnessing 5 years of unprecedented product velocity compound to deliver on their original ambitious vision. ramp.com/blog/ramp-apri…
Messi is an amazing American success story in soccer.
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That was pretty reminiscent of the Villa game - failed to take advantage of some promising early positions, faded badly in the second half, leggy defenders static on a cross etc etc... Huge task to pick the team up now. It's so important they don't finish with a whimper.
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