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THE FUTURE OF GENERATIVE AI INVESTMENT: Insights from leading VC's

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Date: Tuesday, November 5, 2024
9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET, 6:00pm CET

About this Event:

 

We invite you to our upcoming webinar, The Future of Generative AI Investment: Insights from Leading VC's. Over the last two years, the Generative AI space has seen explosive growth, with major players like NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Google adding trillions in market value, and new AI giants such as OpenAI and Anthropic raising billions in funding. However, a recent Goldman Sachs report has raised important questions about the actual returns and future of Generative AI. In this panel, we will discuss the evolving investment landscape, explore where real opportunities lie, and address the challenges investors face in navigating high valuations and identifying defensible AI companies. Our expert panelists, HBS alumni and active AI investors Michiel Kotting of VC Northzone (Europe) and James Currier of VC NFX (Northern California), will share insights into their current AI investment theses, discuss lessons learned from their portfolios, and offer advice for investors considering early-stage AI companies. The session will be moderated by Simon Greenman, Partner at Best Practice AI and Chair of HBS Alumni Angels AI Global Experts Group. This is a must-attend event for anyone interested in understanding the future of AI investment.

 

This webinar will be hosted by Sameera Bazaaz, HBS Angels Board Member and DC Chapter Chair

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MODERATOR

SIMON GREENMAN

Lead of HBS Alumni Angels AI Expert Group and co-founder and partner in Best Practice AI

Simon Greenman has over twenty years of leading digital transformations through technology, data science and AI. He was a co-founder of the early AI-enabled service MapQuest.com. He has over ten years’ experience as Chief Digital Officer leading transformations of media companies for private equity, including Dex Media which completed a $10B M&A for Carlyle and Welsh Carson. More recently he was CEO of an IAC company, HomeAdvisor Europe, which was transforming the home services space.
 
Simon has consulted and worked for brands such as Accenture, Bowers & Wilkins and AOL. He is highly active in the early stage eco-system as Co-President of the Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of London, an advisor at DN Capital, and as an angel investor and advisor. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Computing & Artificial Intelligence from the University of Sussex.

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PANELIST

JAMES CURRIER

General Partner, NFX

James Currier is one of Silicon Valley’s foremost experts in growth and network effects in tech companies. James is a three-time CEO of VC backed companies, including Tickle (acq Monster), WonderHill (acq Kabam), and Jiff (acq Castlight).  James is a pioneer of user-generated models, viral marketing, and A/B testing. In 2015, James co-founded NFX, a $1.6B early-stage venture capital firm focused on network effect businesses, along with Pete Flint and Gigi Levy Weiss.  He is an investor in 10's of unicorns including Doordash, Lyft, Poshmark, etc. You can read his world-leading analysis of network effects and how to build startups at www.nfx.com/essays

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PANELIST

MICHIEL KOTTING

Partner at Northzone

Michiel is a Partner at Northzone, focusing on SaaS, healthcare and AI. Named on The Midas List Europe for top tech investors in 2023, he leads Northzone’s investments in Personio, Stonly, Idoven, Forto, Katana and more. Prior to joining Northzone, Michiel was an investor at Accel London.

Originally from the Netherlands, Michiel spent the early years of his career at BCG. He then founded Digital Jones, an artificial intelligence company, in the Bay Area, which he sold to Shopping.com.

Michiel has a graduate degree in physics from Delft University of Technology and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Previous Educational Webinar

MASTERING AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future with Jeremy Kahn and Simon Greenman

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Date: Thursday, August 22, 2024
9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET

About this Event:

 

Join Simon Greeman, Lead of HBS Alumni Angels AI Expert Group and co-founder and partner in Best Practice AI, in a discussion with Jeremy Kahn, an award-winning journalist and AI Editor for Fortune magazine, where covers artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.

 

AI will transform every aspect of how we work and live, but Kahn cautions that the real dangers we face in this new AI-enhanced world are not the ones we’ve all been hearing the most about. In his new book,  MASTERING AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future, Jeremy warns, the dangers we ought to be worrying about most concern what AI will do to our cognitive abilities, to our interpersonal skills, and to the ethical foundations of our society. Among the big challenges AI confronts us with are around inequality, disinformation, and geopolitics. 

 

Simon and Jeremy will discuss the real challenges and opportunities that widespread application of AI presents and provide a roadmap for business leaders, entrepreneurs and investors in the space to leverage its potential and mitigate the threats. 

 

This webinar will be hosted by Sameera Bazaaz, HBS Angels Board Member and DC Chapter Chair

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PRESENTER

SIMON GREENMAN

Lead of HBS Alumni Angels AI Expert Group and co-founder and partner in Best Practice AI

Simon Greenman has over twenty years of leading digital transformations through technology, data science and AI. He was a co-founder of the early AI-enabled service MapQuest.com. He has over ten years’ experience as Chief Digital Officer leading transformations of media companies for private equity, including Dex Media which completed a $10B M&A for Carlyle and Welsh Carson. More recently he was CEO of an IAC company, HomeAdvisor Europe, which was transforming the home services space.
 
Simon has consulted and worked for brands such as Accenture, Bowers & Wilkins and AOL. He is highly active in the early stage eco-system as Co-President of the Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of London, an advisor at DN Capital, and as an angel investor and advisor. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Computing & Artificial Intelligence from the University of Sussex.

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PRESENTER

JEREMY KAHN

Professor of Finance, Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business

Jeremy Kahn is an award-winning journalist for Fortune magazine, where he covers artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. In addition to cover stories and features, as the AI Editor, he writes Fortune’s weekly Eye on AI newsletter and cochairs its Brainstorm AI technology conferences. Previously, he wrote about technology, including AI, for Bloomberg. His writing on a range of subjects has also appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Smithsonian magazine, The Boston Globe, The New Republic, and Slate. He has reported from India and much of South Asia, the Ivory Coast, Iraq, Venezuela, and most countries in Western Europe. He is a former managing editor of The New Republic. An Ohio native, he now lives with his family in Oxford, England.

EDUCATIONAL WEBINAR VIDEO LINKS

SPACE: The Final Frontier For Angel Investors?

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Presenter: Professor Matthew Weinzierl

HBS Professor of Business Administration
Senior Associate Dean, Chair, MBA Program

Hosted by HBS Alumni Angels

Thursday December 7, 2023 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET

VIDEO LINK:
  1. If you'd like to purchase a view-only ticket for this webinar, click here.
  2. Registrants & Attendees of this webinar, contact Administrator, Molly Lyons, for the link.

Linking Strategy and Sales in an Entrepreneurial Venture

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Presenter: Frank Cespedes
HBS Senior Lecturer and Author

Hosted by HBS Alumni Angels

Thursday July 20, 2023 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET

VIDEO LINK:
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  2. Registrants & Attendees of this webinar, contact Administrator, Molly Lyons, for the link.

Intro to Cap Tables: What Every Angel Investor (and Founder!) Should Know

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Presenter: Michael Costa, HLS ’86

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Hosted by HBS Alumni Angels

Thursday June 15, 2023 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET

VIDEO LINK:
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  2. Registrants & Attendees of this webinar, contact Administrator, Molly Lyons, for the link.

The Generative AI Gold Rush: Who Will Profit and How?

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Presenter: Simon Greenman
Partner at Best Practice AI and Member of the Global AI Council
World Economic Forum

Hosted by HBS Alumni Angels

Thursday May 4, 2023 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET

VIDEO LINK:
  1. If you'd like to purchase a view-only ticket for this webinar, click here.
  2. Registrants & Attendees of this webinar, contact Administrator, Molly Lyons, for the link.

SVB Collapse: Faculty Perspectives

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Presenters: HBS Faculty

Hosted by HBS Alumni Angels and HBS Alumni Relations

Thursday March 16, 2023
9:30am PT, 12:30pm ET

VIDEO LINKS:
  1. HBS alums, to log-in and watch the video at HBS, click here
  2. If you are NOT an HBS alum, click here to watch the video

Webinar History

Past webinars have included:​

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  • MASTERING AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future with Jeremy Kahn and Simon Greenman

  • The Venture Mindset: a transformative playbook for delivering extraordinary results in modern organizations

  • The New CEO: Lessons from CEOs on How to Start Well and Perform Quickly

  • Economic Climate and Outlook - Implications for Early Stage Investors

  • SPACE: The Final Frontier For Angel Investors?

  • Linking Strategy and Sales in an Entrepreneurial Venture

  • Intro to Cap Tables: What Every Angel Investor (and Founder!) Should Know

  • The Generative AI Gold Rush: Who Will Profit and How?

  • SVB Collapse: Faculty Perspectives

  • The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale with John A. List, Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago

  • The Genesis Machine: Programming the Living World with Andrew Hessel, Microbiologist and Geneticist

  • The Synergy Solution: A Conversation with Deloitte's Mark Sirower on How Companies Can Master Mergers & Acquisitions

  • Converted: A Conversation with Google's Neil Hoyne on Using Data to Grow Your Business

  • Sales Management That Works: a Webinar and Discussion with Professor Frank Cespedes, HBS Senior Lecturer

  • How to Build a Sustainable, Scalable, and Sellable Business with Michelle Seiler Tucker, Author of Exit Rich

  • Rita McGrath, Author, Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen

  • Morgan Stanley's Multi-Cultural Lab Panel with Carla Harris & Alice Vilma

  • How to Plan Platform Strategy in a Global Digital Landscape

  • Wattpad - The World’s Most Innovative Social Network

  • FOMO Sapiens: Overcoming Analysis Paralysis to Live and Work Decisively

  • Launching Tech Products In Tough Economic Times: 3 Crucial Questions to Ask Before Launch-Not Afterwards!

  • Getting Deals Done: It's What the Best Deal Leads Do

  • Passion and the Pitcher: Building Strong Founder/Angel Relationships From the Start

  • Investing with Impact: The Continuing Rise of ESG in a Post COVID-19 World

  • Entrepreneurial Leadership: New Ventures, Inspiring Others and Running Stuff

  • Pandemic Investing: Likely Impact on VC and Angel Investing

  • Angel Investing and COVID-19

  • Investing in Blockchain: The Big Opportunity

  • Finding your Angels: Raising Capitol for your Start-Up

  • Toss the Financial Model Spreadsheets

  • Healthcare Start-ups: How to Distinguish Real Companies from Overhyped Ones?

  • Who's Really Going to Make Money in AI and Machine Learning?

  • How Safe are Safe's?

  • "Best Practices" in Angel Investing

  • The Shiny Penny: How to Maximize the M&A Value of Your Company

  • Structuring Success: Building Term Sheets that Build Businesses

  • Syndicated Investments

  • Technology Disruption in Money Management

  • Emerging Technologies in Financial Services

  • The Science of Sales GrowthImpact Investing in Sustainable Food

  • Building Term Sheets that Build Business

  • Revenue-Based Investing

  • Cyber Security Investing

  • Angel and Venture Investing with Brad Feld

  • The Ultimate Marketing Framework

  • A Data-Driven Perspective on Early Stage Saas Investing

  • Investing In Blockchain

  • Internet of Things Primer

  • Moonshots and Soft Landing

  • Seed Investing in Consumer Products and Services

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