The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Songyee Yoon, Founder and Managing Partner of Principal Venture Partners, reads as The Visionary because her thesis rests on futures most practitioners cannot yet see, let alone price. She treats gaming as a civilisational lens rather than an entertainment vertical, and she backs AI-native founders building businesses she openly admits she does not yet comprehend.
“'Cause a biggest breakthrough that allowed us to come here was actually the scale. So it's not just new algorithm. It's not new software, kind of new way of doing things, but it was a scale. Let's do it like kind of pouring a lot of resources to make it really big.”
“I think it depends depending on what they're building. I think the set of questions that I ask when they're building more of the infrastructure technology versus business applications are different, but especially when they're building business applications or vortical applications, I always try to ask what is the real value that is going…”
“Because it was doing so well in terms of refrasing what we were asking and kind of giving them comfort when you were asking about very personal questions. And they say, oh, we don't need a psychotherapist anymore because it's doing good enough.”
“In making and kind of making that adoption of the technology, there are two ways to think about it. One is adopting the technology without really changing the current work process, right? So you can, for example, there are a lot of talk about co-pilot or like augmenting what we do, make it faster, like a search.”
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