Bucky Moore at Lightspeed Venture Partners: Why You Cannot Do VC If You Do Not Do Pre-Seed

Bucky Moore is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, announced exclusively in the show today on 20VC. Prior to Lightspeed, Bucky spent an incredibly successful 7 years at Kleiner Perkins working with Mamoon Hamid to build one of the most successful early-stage firms of the last decade. Bucky has made investments in the likes of Prisma, Netlify, Browserbase, and more.

In Today’s Episode We Discuss:

• Big News: Joining Lightspeed Venture Partners

• Why Mega Platforms Will Win the Next 10 Years of VC

• Are Foundation Model Companies Good Venture Investments

• What Applications Will Model Providers Buy/Build? What Will They Not?

• How to Approach Price Sensitivity in a World of AI

• Why is it BS to do Market Sizing When Making Investments in AI

• Is the Future of VC Domain Specialization

• How to Know What Company Wins in Super Competitive Markets

• Why Every Firm Has to do Pre-Seed To Win in VC Today

• The Risks of Multi-Stage Investing: Is Signalling Risk Real?

• Investing Lessons from Leading Rounds in Glean and Windsurf