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VCs Elad Gil and Sarah Guo on the risks and rewards of funding AI: ‘The biggest threat to us in the short run is other people’

Last week, at our first StrictlyVC evening of the year, prominent AI investors Elad Gil and Sarah Guo joined us in San Francisco to talk about how they

Gil — who also pours his own capital into deals despite raising so much from outsiders — also underscored the importance of creating clear guidelines with one’s own investors to get ahead of perceived conflicts of interest. Calling it a “baby little $100 million fund” compared with Gil’s billions of assets under management, Guo says she has already brought aboard two other investors, a talent partner, and an operations person. For what it’s worth, Gil says during this discussion that he has probably invested the most over time in the defense tech company Anduril, whose cofounder Trae Stephens, is speaking at our next StrictlyVC event in Los Angeles on February 29.

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