You’ve remarked before how quickly teams are getting snapped up, which must compound the issue.
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It’s kind of a puzzle if you’re in VC how to make those investments. It works around the model of seed rounds, A rounds, $20 million B rounds, not for massive projects.
Or self-driving cars - I’d assume that Google has spent many billions of dollars on it already, including mapping. With virtual reality, you have to build a complex platform then line up content partners. No, because it’s hard to figure out where the start-up opportunities are and because requires so much money. Large tech companies are investing very heavily in this stuff there’s much less investment by VCs.īecause VCs don’t understand the tech or else the opportunity? You can kind of jokingly call it weird, but if you look at where Amazon, Facebook, and Google are investing - I think Google’s VR team is significantly bigger than Facebook’s Microsoft has 1,500 people working on HoloLens and from what I can tell from its hiring and acquisitions, Apple is - probably the biggest area is AI. Some startups, the question is more about ‘Will this startup win versus other solutions,’ where, in speculative categories, the question is whether it’s going to work at all. My own area of interest has been in drones and VR and AI and maybe more speculative categories. We obviously invest in a wide range of things. People think of you as the person at Andreessen Horowitz who invests in weird stuff. Here’s more from yesterday’s interview, edited for length: In fact, Dixon suggests it could be ridiculously challenging, given how quickly Facebook, Google, and Amazon are bringing aboard related talent. Not that it’ll be easy to make money off these newer technologies. (Missing from the list: bitcoin, which has long held Dixon’s fascination but that he refers to as a “long-term project.”) Among the trends that Dixon is watching closely, he says, are virtual reality, augmented reality, IoT, wearables, drones and cars.
Or things, technically, according to Dixon, who we caught up with yesterday. As he noted in a recent post, new cycles tend to begin every 10 to 15 years assuming the 2007 introduction of the iPhone kicked off the last wave, we’re fast heading toward the Next New Thing. VC Chris Dixon of Andreessen Horowitz thinks it’s a lot harder to predict financial cycles than it is to see a new computing platform coming down the pike.
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