The questions Leonis Capital investors ask to see if a startup's tech actually holds up

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Jenny Xiao and Jay Zhou, cofounders of Leonis Capital, share their top technical evaluation questions.

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Redwood Materials lands Google as a new investor

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JB Straubel, founder and CEO of Redwood Materials, speaks about battery recycling at CES
JB Straubel, founder and CEO of Redwood Materials, speaks about battery recycling at CES

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Billionaire VC founder Vinod Khosla distances himself from pro-ICE remarks by an exec at his firm

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Khosla Ventures founder Vinod Khosla clasps his hands together while listening to someone speak during a panel.
Khosla Ventures founder, Vinod Khosla.

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How startups can 'break through the noise' and grab attention, according to a marketer-turned-VC

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Lindsay Kaplan is a former marketing executive and cofounder of Chief, a networking company for women.

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Vinod Khosla is looking at this metric to gauge if we're in an AI bubble

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Vinod Khosla says stock prices aren't the way to evaluate AI bubbles.

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An OpenAI researcher turned venture capitalist says investors are 3 to 5 years behind the latest AI studies

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AI bot blowing bubble
Exuberance for AI has led to fears of a bubble forming in the stock market in recent years.

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A startup therapist says most founder blowups can be solved in three ways

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Yariv Ganor
Yariv Ganor started focusing on providing therapy to startup founders six years ago.

Yariv Ganor

A16z partner shares 3 things founders should be able to 'materialize' if they want to be successful

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Alex Rampell is pictured at Tech Crunch Disrupt in 2011.
Andreessen Horowitz partner Alex Rampell said he likes founders with a chip on their shoulder.

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Ben Horowitz says that investing teams shouldn't be 'too much bigger than basketball teams'

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Ben Horowitz said investment teams should be the size of a playing five in basketball.

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This consultant advised Big Law at McKinsey. Now Sequoia is backing his AI startup for in-house lawyers.

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A man stands with his arms crossed on a cobblestone street in Brooklyn's Dumbo neighborhood, with the Manhattan Bridge rising between red-brick buildings behind him.
Nick Fleisher.

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