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A product manager-turned-investor, Scale Venture Partners' Eric Anderson typically backs startups building tools used by engineers and developers. He joins Tanya Dua for this week's edition of VC Wednesdays. 👇
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🚨 A former product manager at Amazon and Google, Eric Anderson leads AI, cloud infrastructure and security investments at Scale Venture Partners. He joins us for VC Wednesdays. 🚨 ✒️ How would you describe your investment thesis? I look for tools for technical builders — things that product managers, software engineers, data engineers and mechanical and hardware engineers can use. Part of the reason is that individual users have become more empowered than ever before. Historically, IT has chosen tooling, but nowadays, tools are getting democratized and individual developers can now be in the driving seat. How I measure that in an investment is: Is there a value prop for the individual and the organization? For individuals, the value prop could be productivity or a better user experience, whereas for the organization manager, it could be cost savings, for example. ✒️ What’s a recent investment that meets this criteria? We just announced an investment in Cortex, which is a service catalog for engineers. Individual developers love it because it's like a homepage for when they need to go find a service or contact a service owner. But more importantly, organizations love it because it allows for better change management. Let’s say you want to have everyone upgrade to the latest version of Java; you can easily track which half have done it and which haven't. There's now a mechanism to introduce change in the organization that doesn’t entail spreadsheets. ✒️ Where does AI fit into your thesis? I'm really excited about AI agents — by which I mean a bundle of AI automation that’s analogous to a job role. So, we recently invested in the company QA Wolf for example, which is like a quality assurance engineer in a box and has 40 microservices inside of it. It could represent a new kind of platform-as-a-service paradigm, but instead of building microservices or containers, you're building agents. ✒️ You’re a proponent of open-source projects. Does that also extend into AI? It’s likely that we’ll have a proprietary and an open-source winner, like Windows and Linux or a Snowflake and a Databricks. There will be an OpenAI that serves the security-conscious people who don't want to build things themselves, and a Llama that will overtake most use cases, where developers get to choose and have a little more customization. I'm hesitant to bet on anything in between, like engineering-specific foundation models, including poolside. ✒️ What’s one investment that you regret passing on? Snyk. We were the first in line for their Series B, and it was the prototypical deal I look for — it had developer love, a top-down mandate that made sense and growth metrics. But there was a timing element, where I was preoccupied with something else and had questions about how big the problem they were trying to solve was. I ended up overthinking it, but Snyk would have been a slam dunk. #VCWednesdays #vc #venturecapital #startups #TechonLinkedIn
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Video is now the fastest-growing content type on LinkedIn. But we get it — even if you know you should make more videos, it can be challenging to get started. We’re here to help: this webinar will help you overcome those challenges, whether you’re new to video creation or looking to elevate your existing content strategy. Join LinkedIn’s Jamé Jackson (Gadsden) and Captions’ Midas Kwant for our upcoming workshop: Building Your Professional Brand through Video! We’ll discuss the landscape of video content on LinkedIn, the types of videos working well and how you can speed up your creative process with the AI tools in Captions. From recording tips to video editing basics, you’ll walk away with a clear idea on how to uplevel your video strategy on LinkedIn.
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