What are some of the investments you guys have made that you feel particularly excited about? I think the one that’s probably farthest along is Nanosolar. One of the reasons I bring that up is it has a lot of Stanford students in it, and it has a lot of Stanford intellectual property in it. ...
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In several of the long waves you’re mentioning, not just clean tech but also health and healthcare and biotech, there's a big public policy component that I'd love to get your thoughts on. We don't know yet who is going to be president, but what advice would you have for either candidate with re...
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I try to be a student of the game. When I was a student here, I wanted to really learn about the different students I was interacting with. I had friends that were in the medical school, I had friends that were in law school, I had friends in the business school. One of the things I cam...
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What are the other long waves that you pay attention to? Obviously, you’re not solely spending 24x7 in just the clean tech area. I think one of the advantages of having a diversified venture firm where we practice across information technology, life science and clean tech, is we're able...
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Back in 2002 in the lower days of the decline of the tech boom, I started thinking about what was going to be the next area in which technology could really shape a new set of industries. And what I started to look and come and across time and time again was that there was a transition that was ...
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Hw do you keep up with the current state of research? What do you read? What do you look at? Who do you talk to, to stay up to date on what’s happening? This is a big challenge. Basically, one of the challenges to being an investor in clean tech is knowing what you want to invest in. If you're ...
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Sand Hill Road and the venture community is going to run out of capital at a certain point. And we need to have the companies far enough along so that other forms of capital will come in and help us build them. And where do you see those later-staged sources of capital? Are they as excit...
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