- About Hoxton

- Background at Google

- From California to London

- Early steps in data driven approach

- Being single person “data team”

- Designing and capturing signals

- Building ETL system

- Data challanges

- Data decay problem

- On ML stack

- ChatGPT impact on the process

- Team involvment with the tool

- The Rob score

- Usage across VC value chain

- Value of time series and following company progress over time

- Data stack

- Scraping tips to crawl anything

- How data approach changes VC industry

- Arms race of data

- Future of VC industry and founders raising money

- Importance of surfacing data

- VC as a sales job

- The perfect CRM tool

- How LLM’s change VC game

- Personal CRM as extension of mind

- Challange with follow-ups

- Advice for VC firm which start data approach

- Lack of tools in Europe

- Where to find Rob

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