funding: everyone on the record — The Minutes https://minutesof.com/on/funding/ Everyone on the record about funding: 8 verbatim quotes from 3 people, February 2023 to December 2024, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a link… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:32:59 +0000 Paul Atkins: Atkins reports commenters want the SEC to take more responsibility for managing and funding the C https://minutesof.com/q/b29acf32-28bb-40ef-91bf-dc5879104e65/ https://minutesof.com/q/b29acf32-28bb-40ef-91bf-dc5879104e65/ “One theme emerges from the comment file: investors and market participants want the Commission to take more responsibility for managing and funding this project.” — Paul Atkins, SEC speeches and statements funding Bill Gurley: The Middle East, the sovereign wealth funds in Singapore and and Nordics and, you know, Canadian https://minutesof.com/q/e01e75bd-0b6b-4610-9a72-cafd7fec1909/ https://minutesof.com/q/e01e75bd-0b6b-4610-9a72-cafd7fec1909/ “The Middle East, the sovereign wealth funds in Singapore and and Nordics and, you know, Canadian pension fund and all these folks.” — Bill Gurley, Bg2 Pod Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:25:20 +0000 funding Bill Gurley: Patel distinguishes NVIDIA's revenue from positive cash flows versus Cisco's dot-com era credit-f https://minutesof.com/q/0800fb16-0936-4ac6-b8b4-246c7c89f3ad/ https://minutesof.com/q/0800fb16-0936-4ac6-b8b4-246c7c89f3ad/ “Cisco's revenue, a lot of it was funded through private slash credit investments into building out telecom infrastructure. Right? When we look at NVIDIA's revenue sources, very little of it is private slash credit.” — Bill Gurley, Bg2 Pod Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:25:20 +0000 funding Bill Gurley: Gurley notes AI companies have raised billions of dollars each at unprecedented levels despite be https://minutesof.com/q/e00715d4-e5c3-427a-8328-fc53984e4d0f/ https://minutesof.com/q/e00715d4-e5c3-427a-8328-fc53984e4d0f/ “So yeah, you could call them early stage startups, but you could also I mean, who they've raised billions of dollars each, you know,” — Bill Gurley, This Week in Startups Tue, 10 Oct 2023 01:53:27 +0000 funding David Friedberg: Friedberg believes Altos Labs' $3 billion model of acquiring academic teams will likely yield https://minutesof.com/q/a9df4bf5-bf6c-4838-a079-e8946cd2ae52/ https://minutesof.com/q/a9df4bf5-bf6c-4838-a079-e8946cd2ae52/ “I think it's a really interesting model. I'm really curious to see what comes out of Altos Labs, given that the number of teams that they've gone out and like vacuumed up from academia, the probability of that portfolio of teams having a breakthrough or a set of breakthroughs that has commercial success is very high.” — David Friedberg, Dr Brian Keating Thu, 09 Feb 2023 18:00:09 +0000 funding David Friedberg: Friedberg reports Altos Labs raised $3 billion from Bezos and others to recruit academic rese https://minutesof.com/q/d9fd40cc-a4a5-4035-96e3-ef565df50ba4/ https://minutesof.com/q/d9fd40cc-a4a5-4035-96e3-ef565df50ba4/ “And they've been going out and just grabbing some of the best academic and research teams out there that are like, they brought a ton of people out from UCSF.” — David Friedberg, Dr Brian Keating Thu, 09 Feb 2023 18:00:09 +0000 funding David Friedberg: You see this in, like, the insurance industry. The term is often used to adverse selection wh https://minutesof.com/q/8d517362-3bac-4ac7-8ea5-747be0541175/ https://minutesof.com/q/8d517362-3bac-4ac7-8ea5-747be0541175/ “You see this in, like, the insurance industry. The term is often used to adverse selection where, it's the best storyteller that wins, not necessarily the best candidate.” — David Friedberg, Dr Brian Keating Thu, 09 Feb 2023 18:00:09 +0000 funding David Friedberg: Friedberg argues decentralized funding networks suffer from adverse selection where storytell https://minutesof.com/q/e8721d10-ad31-416b-b469-43079dac87c1/ https://minutesof.com/q/e8721d10-ad31-416b-b469-43079dac87c1/ “The problem with decentralized networks is often you see adverse selection. You see this in, like, the insurance industry.” — David Friedberg, Dr Brian Keating Thu, 09 Feb 2023 18:00:09 +0000 funding