Steve Distante welcomes Will Weisman of KittyHawk Ventures, a frontier technology venture capital firm. He discusses how the world has changed in the last year and how businesses have been pushed ahead for 5 to 10 years. He also talked about how the rate of change is accelerating and his belief that we are living in a time of great abundance and opportunity.

Steve and Will differentiate the types of companies that Will's venture firm invests in. They say that the firm focuses on tech-forward companies in areas like quantum computing, machine vision, robotics, AI, med tech, and FinTech. They try to find companies that are just starting to generate revenue, or that are at the idea stage with a lot of potentials.

Who's The Guest? Will Weisman is the former Executive Director at Singularity University and now leads KittyHawk Ventures, an early-stage frontier technology capital firm that invests in networking, AI/ML, space, fintech, computing, and more.

Highlights

• The rate of change and how it has affected the world in the past year
• What the Venture Capital, Kitty Hawk Investments is all about
• Different types of venture capital funds
• What happens when a company goes public?
• The rise of the SPAC and the fall of the Unicorn
• Types of funding rounds
• The Importance of being proximate, passionate, and consistent in Entrepreneurship
• Who is the ideal entrepreneur
• What the importance of company culture is and hiring the right people for the role
• Role of transparency and vulnerability in entrepreneur-investor relationships
• How you can stay real in business relationships

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Episode Resources

• Connect with Steve Distante
• https://pitchology.ai/
• https://joinvanderbilt.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/stevedistanteCEO/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevedistante
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• Connect with Will Weisman
• https://www.kittyhawk.vc/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/willweisman
• https://twitter.com/wweisman