Starwatcher podcast 7 - Rob Kniaz from H Tree Capital and Hoxton Ventures Starwatcher podcast

- 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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