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So I think that picking your first company, and even whether you choose to start up or not, is a key, key decision.

Choosing to start, Joe Kraus, the founder of Excite, and a friend, he's a partner at Google Ventures now.

He likes to say, you learn more from successful companies than you do from failures.

Going off and doing your own thing that fails, you learn a lot.

I mean, it wasn't because of my previous success.

It was because Rich Miner at Google Ventures was into the idea.

And then I got to know Brad Feld at Foundry through Raj Bhagavat.

And they like software for salespeople.

He was the chief data officer at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where he founded Data Sciences Platform, bringing together more than 200 software engineers and computational biologists to develop the tools that are transforming biological research.

He was also the co-director of Broad's Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center, And in addition to that, he was one of the earliest, earliest, earliest people at Google Ventures, which became GV, and is now a general partner at GV, where he's helping to build and support innovative companies, which have included things like Verve Therapeutics.

And in addition, he's pursuing his own enterprise now, which he can tell us more about.

Anthony was in the class of 1998 at Yale.

I started med school the year the first draft of the genome was released.

You know, I got to see the rise of mini vertebrate genomes, human genetics, GWASs, and then now even kind of the rise of the applications in actual medicine, patient care.

And, you know, for some of the trainees who are out there, I think one of the things that's really important as you go through life, we'll talk about, you know, kind of my journey to GV and entrepreneurship.

But maybe I'll say a little bit about how I entered.

It was at Blue Bottle Coffee.

And Blue Bottle was a great GV investment because that was clearly not one where we were going to be in any danger of accusation that, oh, you just want to invest in me so that you can buy my company.

So I could say to people like, we're investing in Blue Bottle.

We just want to make returns.

One of the most amusing non-tech tech products in recent years was the Juicero, which Bloomberg described a few years ago as an unlikely investment for the top technology investors.

Nonetheless, Juicero raised $120 million in venture capital funding from firms like Google Ventures and Kleiner Perkins.

A reporter at Vox wrote that Juicero's business plan reads like a pitch-perfect parody of contemporary startup culture.

Its inventor compared himself to Steve Jobs and explained that the Juicero squeezed juice with the force of two Teslas.

Could AI change the way integrations are built? That became the part of thinking behind Stack One.

And in 2025, the company raised a $20 million Series A led by GV, which is Google Ventures, bringing its total funding to $24 million.

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