Blitzscaling strategies are reshaping how startups grow and dominate markets, with rapid growth prioritized over efficiency to win. Chris Yeh of Blitzscaling Ventures delves into the principles of blitzscaling and its synergy with AI, offering insights on seizing market opportunities and driving innovation.   Sign up for Step events https://stepconference.com/_____________________   HIGHLIGHTS   (3:19) Understanding Blitzscaling (5:22) What Makes Blitzscaling Work (6:45) The Link Between AI and Blitzscaling (10:09) AI’s Role in the Future of Work (15:56) How AI Impacts Industries   _____________________   QUOTES   “We define Blitzscaling as the pursuit of rapid growth by prioritizing speed over efficiency in the face of uncertainty.” “The reason to blitzscale, the reason to take on that additional risk, is to win a valuable winner-take-most market.” “When you have a network effect, that tends to drive a winner-take-most market because, at a certain point, the network value is greater than the product value.” “Blitzscaling is not just about spending a lot of money on marketing and advertising. You need to be better at it than the competition.” “AI is almost certainly the biggest wave that we are going to experience in our lifetimes.” “The Industrial Revolution replaced muscle power with mechanical power. AI is replacing human brainpower with computing power.” “AI is creating more winner-take-most opportunities. We have a natural learning effect and the traditional network effects.” “The true value of AI is not just in faster, cheaper, and better, but in doing things that were never possible before.” “If you treat AI like an undergrad research assistant—it knows everything but understands nothing—you’ll use it effectively.” “Most startups will fail, but we are in one of the most amazing environments for startups in history.”   _____________________   If you’re enjoying this podcast, please subscribe to Step Podcast and leave us a review on your favrorite platform! → https://lnkfi.re/xHeR0F

The AI investment landscape is rapidly evolving, with groundbreaking innovations and challenges emerging at every turn. Arif Hilaly of Bain Capital Ventures, Calvin Chin of E14 Fund, Bilal Zuberi of Lux Capital, John Chu of Khosla Ventures, and Lisa of 99 VC discuss trends, valuation dynamics, and key factors VCs consider when evaluating AI startups.Sign up for Step events https://stepconference.com/     _____________________   HIGHLIGHTS   (5:12) Technology Trends and Excitement in AI (11:44) Valuations and Investment Strategies (17:17) Evaluating Founders and Startups (24:54) Successful Investments and Lessons Learned (43:28) Privacy, Security, and Ethics in AI_____________________   QUOTES   "There's a lot of industries that never got really infused with technology over the last 30 years... Now when you can have conversational AI, when you can have data captured and analysis done somewhere else, and then providing the output to that so that people can actually take action on it, that starts to become very interesting." "The addressable market for software has massively expanded... it's just so unpredictable, and that really helps the insurgent over the incumbent." "If AI is a productivity accelerant and productivity is a measure of GDP. We're about to level up GDP all across the board." "You should really look at any financing as a recruiting decision about who do you want to work with, and just have confidence that whatever the valuation is and the terms will be a market price." “Innovation is happening at every layer of the stack, and billions and billions and billions of dollars are being spent every year in that so there's a lot happening. And hence, you know, you should be investing much more open minded on what can be built.”   _____________________   If you’re enjoying this podcast, please subscribe to Step Podcast and leave us a review on your favorite platform! → https://lnkfi.re/xHeR0F

Jeremiah Owyang, General Partner at Blitzscaling Ventures, delivered a comprehensive overview of the current AI landscape. He introduced the AI tech stack, explaining its layers from data to applications and agents.    Sign up for Step events https://stepconference.com/ Subscribe now to the Step Feed newsletter for a daily roundup of the top tech business news https://subscribe.stepfeed.com/   _____________________   HIGHLIGHTS   (1:39) Overview of the AI Industry (2:41) AI Tech Stack and Key Components (5:43) Autonomous Agents and Future of AI (7:34) Taxonomy of AI Entities and Market Dynamics (12:29) Forecast and Future of AI on the Internet     _____________________   QUOTES   "Right now, the AI industry is exploding. There's 1000 new AI projects being launched per month. That's going to mean one is going to launch in the next 30 minutes." "Everybody in the world will have their own executive assistant. Everybody in the world will have their own Travel Planner. Everybody in the world will have their own personal shopper. We will all have multiple agents." "Bill Gates says that whoever has the AI agent will win the internet." "In this future, we don't need apps anymore. We don't even need websites. This is a fundamental change to the internet." "There will be more AI agents than humans on the internet. This is a significant change."   _____________________   If you’re enjoying this podcast, please subscribe to Step Podcast and leave us a review on your favrorite platform! → https://lnkfi.re/xHeR0F