This week, Lightspeed Partner Mike Mignano sits down with his colleague Bucky Moore, a fellow partner at Lightspeed to explore the rapidly shifting landscape of AI and infrastructure. They unpack the evolution from hardware to cloud to AI-native architectures, the growing momentum behind open-source models, and the rise of AI agents and reinforcement learning environments. Bucky also shares how his early days at Cisco shaped his bottom-up view of enterprise software, and why embracing the new is the key to spotting trillion-dollar opportunities.

Episode Chapters: 

(00:00) Introduction to the Conversation

(00:38) Bucky Moore's Background and Early Career

(01:39) Insights from Cisco: Old World Meets New World

(03:54) Transition to Venture Capital

(08:15) The Evolution of Infrastructure Investment

(15:50) Impact of AI on Infrastructure

(24:37) Training AI Agents: Challenges and Innovations

(25:07) The Future of Reinforcement Learning Environments

(25:51) Infrastructure for AI Agents

(26:49) Emerging Opportunities in AI Infrastructure

(28:58) The Impact of Salesforce's Data Policies

(33:00) The Evolution of AI Compute

(39:47) The Role of New AI Architectures

(42:47) The Future of Venture Capital in AI

(46:44) Predicting the Next Trillion-Dollar AI Companies

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