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Shawn Wang: preference

29 Mar 2025 Latent Space Unsupervised Learning x Latent Space Crossover Special

“Yeah, but I don't regard, I don't have, I don't use, put, put that in my mental framework of things like I come at this much more as a content creator or market analyst of like, yeah, it, it really does matter to me what has part of market fit because.”

— Shawn Wang

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Shawn Wang
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preference
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29 Mar 2025
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Latent Space

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…That's hard. I was asking you to do my job for you, like, man, that's a easy, that's a layout. Tell us all your investing pieces. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I, I, I would say we, well we only really do mostly seed investing, so it's hard to invest in things that already work. Yeah. That fair. Are really late. So we try to, but, but we try to be at the cusp of like, you know, usually the investments we like to make, there's like really not that much market risk. It's like if this works. Obviously people are gonna use it, but like it's unclear whether or not it's gonna work. So that's kind of more what we skew towards. We try not to chase as many trends and I don't know, I, you know, I was a founder myself and sometimes I feel like it's easy to just jump in and do the thing that is hot, but like becoming a founder to do something that is like underappreciated or like doesn't yet work shows some level of like dread and self, like you, you actually really believe in the thing. So that alone for me is like, kind of makes me skew more towards that. And you do a lot of angel investing too, so I'm curious how, Yeah, but I don't regard, I don't have, I don't use, put, put that in my mental framework of things like I come at this much more as a content creator or market analyst of like, yeah, it, it really does matter to me what has part of market fit because. People, I have to answer the question of what is working now When, when people ask me, do you feel like relative to the, the obviously the hype and discourse out there, like, you know, do you feel like there's a lot of things that have product market fit or like a few things, like where a few things? Yeah.…

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